VitaLady is Coming to Coffeyville KS 6-27-09
Michelle Curran...aka "Vitalady" and her husband , Don. "vitadad" is stopping by in Coffeyville on their way home on their "Vitatour 2009"! They will be here Saturday, June 27th at 2:00 for a Protein Brunch and WLS get together!
We will have a bairiatic doctor and plastic surgeon on hand to answer any medical or surgery related questions as well.
This is an AWSOME opportunity to learn VITAL vitamin and nutrition information in order to keep healthy and keep the weight off for good!
Bring your lawn chairs, "before" pics, labs and TONS of questions for Michelle and join many other WLS peers in this rare and exciting chance to learn KNOWLEDGABE information in WLS health!
This is a FREE event, open to pre-op, post-op or those just "investigating" WLS lifestyle. We don't care if you are just plain NOSEY! You are welcome to attend!
If anyone is interested in further details...please contact Carol Shafer at [email protected] or call at 62-251-2662.
Coffeyville is located on the Kansas/Oklahoma border in the SE corner of the state. We are about 1 hour west of Joplin MO!
Hope to see you there!
Blessings,
Carol Shafer
We will have a bairiatic doctor and plastic surgeon on hand to answer any medical or surgery related questions as well.
This is an AWSOME opportunity to learn VITAL vitamin and nutrition information in order to keep healthy and keep the weight off for good!
Bring your lawn chairs, "before" pics, labs and TONS of questions for Michelle and join many other WLS peers in this rare and exciting chance to learn KNOWLEDGABE information in WLS health!
This is a FREE event, open to pre-op, post-op or those just "investigating" WLS lifestyle. We don't care if you are just plain NOSEY! You are welcome to attend!
If anyone is interested in further details...please contact Carol Shafer at [email protected] or call at 62-251-2662.
Coffeyville is located on the Kansas/Oklahoma border in the SE corner of the state. We are about 1 hour west of Joplin MO!
Hope to see you there!
Blessings,
Carol Shafer
No, I haven't had the pleasure yet! I plan on it though!
I have talked to Karla a few times online though. She seems pretty awsome! I attend Dr Gorospe's meetings in Owasso each month, but would love to come over and meet everybody in Joplin sometime. I hear you guys are growing ( group wise of course LOL!) by leaps and bounds! I told her I wanted to come over and get some ideas to bring back to our small group here in Coffeyville! So don't be surprised to see me some day soon!!
I sent Karla the information about our get together, did she happen to mention it to any of you'all?
Carol
I have talked to Karla a few times online though. She seems pretty awsome! I attend Dr Gorospe's meetings in Owasso each month, but would love to come over and meet everybody in Joplin sometime. I hear you guys are growing ( group wise of course LOL!) by leaps and bounds! I told her I wanted to come over and get some ideas to bring back to our small group here in Coffeyville! So don't be surprised to see me some day soon!!
I sent Karla the information about our get together, did she happen to mention it to any of you'all?
Carol
Yesterday, was the first time we didnt have a meeting.. So, no not yet! I am interested in coming, but I have to see with my schedule and all. I have no idea who vitalady and vitadad are? But, it sounds like a good time. Hopefully, I will be able to make it. I dont know how to get to Coffeyville, but I am sure I can mapquest it. :) Thanks for posting this!!
I am so sorry...it never "dawned" on me that some people might know who "vitalady" is! :)
Go to www.vitalady.com and check our their vita blog and site!
They have a website devoted to bariatric vitamins and products.
Michelle and Don both are long term bariatric patients and have devoted there entire lives to education other WLS patients on the vital importance of correct vitamin and protien supplementation in order to prevent weight gain and long term health issues that so many bariatric patients are now facing due to taking the wrong kind of vitamins supplements or NOT taking any vitamins at all!
Although she works with some of the countries top bariatric doctors... She has "self taught" herself nutrition, WLS vitamins and is an EXPERTin regard to the required labs that bariatric patients are required to do yearly.
She has analaysed thousands of WLS lab results over the last ten years. She is NOT a medical person, but quite frankly...she knows more about the daily requirements for bariatric patients than most of the bariatric surgeons and their nutritionts I have ever talked to!!!!
I know that's a bold and profound statement to make...but you must realize, I have been a bariatric patient for over 10 years, have worked in the industry and have had a lap band for over 8 years and now have a gastric bypass..., I've seen WAY tooo many people WLS people develop drastic problems and health issues due to NO supplementation or takiing the wrong KIND of vitamins that they don't absorb...or taking ENOUGH supplements.
They are dedicated to "educating" and "teaching" what our bariatric doctors and Primary care physcians simply don't or cant teach... due to not fully understanding it themselves...no fault of their own, I'm certainly not bashing doctors here! I think it takes someone who lives it to fully understand it and teach it...basic nturition 101 for the WLS lifestyle...They LIVE it and have for over 10 years!
She is able to look at you lab values and tell you how to "Tweek" your vitamin supplements..based on thousands of labs she has looked at....and tell you what problems you can correct with what type of vitamin supplements...such as...Gastric bypass patients only absorb calcium Citrate..not any other kind...certain types of iron are NOT absorbed by us and the levels of our lab values are MUCH higher that those of "normies".
So if your doctor is saying your labs are fine and they don't see any problem because they are in the "normal" ranges... may NOT be necessarly true....we require MUCH higher lab values due to the lack of absorption or lack of caloric intake than "NORMAL" people!
Does this make any sense to you?
I have personally been the "victim" of my labs being inturpeted wrong and it almost cost me my life! SOOOOO .. I am a HUGE believer of getting the word out to as many WLS people as I can...knowledge is POWER and with knowledge ...we CAN live the rest of our lives with our "tools" and NOT regain the weight or develop long term health issues that can be prevented in the first place...IF YOU just KNOW!!!
Michelle is a regular "poster" on several online WLS support groups and OH so she is well known in the national bariatric community and throught the AMBSA comminty as well. They make a yearly trip to the bariatric conference each year and makes several stops along the way to visit with friends and customers both ways...check out their "Vitatour 2009" blog on their web site....
This is a cool and unusual chance for those of us in this neck of the woods to get to meet her and spend some "one on one" time with the "knowledabgle" one! My words...not hers! LOL!!
Whew...I bet your sorry you asked now...huh!? LOL!!!!
Carol
Go to www.vitalady.com and check our their vita blog and site!
They have a website devoted to bariatric vitamins and products.
Michelle and Don both are long term bariatric patients and have devoted there entire lives to education other WLS patients on the vital importance of correct vitamin and protien supplementation in order to prevent weight gain and long term health issues that so many bariatric patients are now facing due to taking the wrong kind of vitamins supplements or NOT taking any vitamins at all!
Although she works with some of the countries top bariatric doctors... She has "self taught" herself nutrition, WLS vitamins and is an EXPERTin regard to the required labs that bariatric patients are required to do yearly.
She has analaysed thousands of WLS lab results over the last ten years. She is NOT a medical person, but quite frankly...she knows more about the daily requirements for bariatric patients than most of the bariatric surgeons and their nutritionts I have ever talked to!!!!
I know that's a bold and profound statement to make...but you must realize, I have been a bariatric patient for over 10 years, have worked in the industry and have had a lap band for over 8 years and now have a gastric bypass..., I've seen WAY tooo many people WLS people develop drastic problems and health issues due to NO supplementation or takiing the wrong KIND of vitamins that they don't absorb...or taking ENOUGH supplements.
They are dedicated to "educating" and "teaching" what our bariatric doctors and Primary care physcians simply don't or cant teach... due to not fully understanding it themselves...no fault of their own, I'm certainly not bashing doctors here! I think it takes someone who lives it to fully understand it and teach it...basic nturition 101 for the WLS lifestyle...They LIVE it and have for over 10 years!
She is able to look at you lab values and tell you how to "Tweek" your vitamin supplements..based on thousands of labs she has looked at....and tell you what problems you can correct with what type of vitamin supplements...such as...Gastric bypass patients only absorb calcium Citrate..not any other kind...certain types of iron are NOT absorbed by us and the levels of our lab values are MUCH higher that those of "normies".
So if your doctor is saying your labs are fine and they don't see any problem because they are in the "normal" ranges... may NOT be necessarly true....we require MUCH higher lab values due to the lack of absorption or lack of caloric intake than "NORMAL" people!
Does this make any sense to you?
I have personally been the "victim" of my labs being inturpeted wrong and it almost cost me my life! SOOOOO .. I am a HUGE believer of getting the word out to as many WLS people as I can...knowledge is POWER and with knowledge ...we CAN live the rest of our lives with our "tools" and NOT regain the weight or develop long term health issues that can be prevented in the first place...IF YOU just KNOW!!!
Michelle is a regular "poster" on several online WLS support groups and OH so she is well known in the national bariatric community and throught the AMBSA comminty as well. They make a yearly trip to the bariatric conference each year and makes several stops along the way to visit with friends and customers both ways...check out their "Vitatour 2009" blog on their web site....
This is a cool and unusual chance for those of us in this neck of the woods to get to meet her and spend some "one on one" time with the "knowledabgle" one! My words...not hers! LOL!!
Whew...I bet your sorry you asked now...huh!? LOL!!!!
Carol
Oh yeah!!!!!!!
It is at 1272 CR 4500... Karo J Ranch....we are right on the state line....
call me at 620-252-9296 and I'll give you instructions. if you need...but .....
Highway 166 going east ( thru BAxter Springs and Chetopa) takes you directly to Highway 169 right out side of Coffeyville. When you come to this interestion, turn left ( going south) , follow the highway thru town til you come to the first stop light,...turn left at the stop light ( and you'll be going south) you will go two miles til you get to the state line road ( OK and KS state line) . Turn right on stateline road...
watch for the sign I will have posted there...
.turn right, go two miles straight, ( the paved road is only a mile long before it curves,...take the road striaght....DONT TURN.......this will take you off the paved road onto a dirt road..., go one mile and the first dirt road on your right...actuall the ONLY road that turns right...well, turn right...LOL>>>> we are the second house on the right...can't miss it...BIG RED BARN and Tons of horses....plus...I'll have a BIG sign!
I hope you get to come...we are going to have fun and get educated!!!! Will be lots of good low carb food too!
Dont forget your lawn chair and "before" pics!!!!!
Please feel free to bring friends or family as well...the more the merrier!!!
OH yeah!!!!!!!!!
Carol
Loosing inches and gaining knowledge!!!
It is at 1272 CR 4500... Karo J Ranch....we are right on the state line....
call me at 620-252-9296 and I'll give you instructions. if you need...but .....
Highway 166 going east ( thru BAxter Springs and Chetopa) takes you directly to Highway 169 right out side of Coffeyville. When you come to this interestion, turn left ( going south) , follow the highway thru town til you come to the first stop light,...turn left at the stop light ( and you'll be going south) you will go two miles til you get to the state line road ( OK and KS state line) . Turn right on stateline road...
watch for the sign I will have posted there...
.turn right, go two miles straight, ( the paved road is only a mile long before it curves,...take the road striaght....DONT TURN.......this will take you off the paved road onto a dirt road..., go one mile and the first dirt road on your right...actuall the ONLY road that turns right...well, turn right...LOL>>>> we are the second house on the right...can't miss it...BIG RED BARN and Tons of horses....plus...I'll have a BIG sign!
I hope you get to come...we are going to have fun and get educated!!!! Will be lots of good low carb food too!
Dont forget your lawn chair and "before" pics!!!!!
Please feel free to bring friends or family as well...the more the merrier!!!
OH yeah!!!!!!!!!
Carol
Loosing inches and gaining knowledge!!!
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