I have been steadily working, paying off bills, researching, attending seminars, preparing for lap-band surgery. I know that this will only be a tool to help me achieve results with my own hard work and dedication. In addition to improving the health of my body, I really want to improve the health of my mind. Obviously I have had a negative relationship with food that extends past plain bad habits and I'd like to work on that. I feel like I'm a fairly un-troubled person besides the weight issues but my family did have a lot of problems in the past. I'd like to find a Therapist within the general Kansas City vicinity that would help me deal with weight-loss, food relationship, bad habits, and past family issues. I did try to go to a therapist once, just by picking out a random person. That didn't suit me well. I'm wondering if there is anyone that knows of an excellent therapist? I really want someone who is extremely intelligent, willing to both challenge me and not judge me harshly.

 

Thanks for taking the time to give our input! :-)

I am going to have my lapband on June 30. Dr. Steward is my doc!

If you are looking to self pay, you may want to consider going to Mexico or other countries to have the surgery. I heavily researched mine and spoke to 3 local doctors before making my decision. I had Gastric Bypass Surgery on 6/5/08 in Mexico and paid $11,900 via Healthbase.com. You can also check out PlanetHospital.com. The lapband was going to cost around $9500. Not only is it cheaper, but these countries have been doing the surgeries for years longer than the doctors here in the US.

Hi,  I am in Andover and getting ready to have VSG surgery in July.  I am getting my surgery done in OK as they are not currently doing VSG in Wichita.  I was hoping to find some local support also, so I hope to hear from other Wichita people. Kim

John, I jus****ched your video and it was awesome. This is the greatest adventure of my life. I am glad that I found the pathway. You have a great story to tell. We all have great stories and we need to keep telling them.  I do check this board often and I wi**** was more active. We just need to keep telling our stories and hope more people find the path to a better and longer life.  Thanks for sharing your video.