Hi Cathy:
I also live in Deerfield and I have been thru the program at Portsmouth Hospital and the whole experience has been great.  Log onto the website at Portsmouth Hospital and it will link you to the bariatric program at Portsmouth.
They have a support group for post surgery people on the 2nd Monday of every month at 5:30 at the hospital - I will be willing to carpool.
If you want to talk about it offline PM me.

Dianne

Hi All,

Well I am back, had my band removed at the end of April and it is now the end of May...feeling ok, still have very depressing moments when I think about my band and the fact that it is gone, i had a hard few weeks after surgery, I was feeling good physically but was an emotional wreck.

One thing that I can say is the removal of band had help me to realize that I have no safety net and that I can not just think the band will stop be from eating something because I know it wont it is a struggle every day with food but I am still on the track, wont drink soda or eat a lot of bread, and one thing I know is that this had made me exercise more, with my band I lost over 80 pounds, with out it I am determined not to gain it back and still have about 40 pounds to my goal.

When I had the band I did not exercise very much now I run almost every day and life weights with my hubby.

I talked to Dr Gens and he said that there are other options but they scare the heck out of me, I hope I can be successful on my own, just wanted to check in and say hi to all, have a great Memorial Day weekend.