OHSU Bariatric Support Group Meeting

The next Bariatric Support Group will be this coming Wednesday, August 12th, from 10-11:30 at CHH, 3303 S.W. Bond Ave, Portland, Oregon, 97239 in Room 3178. The Center for Health and Healing (CHH) parking garage is located across the street and is underground.  Bring your ticket to get stamped at either the 6th floor Digestive Health Center desk or 1st floor. 

The topic will be Nutrition - meal planning on a budget, calories, dietary problems that can interfere with weight loss and other topics of interest. The evening session on the same topic will be on August 18th, from 6:30-8 pm in Room 3181, Center for Health and Healing.
The drop in session for nutritional questions or postoperative care will be on August 26th from 10-1130, Room 3180.  Hope you can join us!
If you plan ahead, the September topic will be on The Tricky Aspects of Changes in Our Lives: How to Thrive, presented by a Psychologist.  The dates will be 9/9/09 from 10-11:30, and on 9/15/09 from 6:30-8 pm.

Thanks for the post Chelea!  I actually will be in Portland on the 18th to see my spine surgeon at OHSU, so I may hang around and attend the evening support group.  We no longer have our group here in Eugene.

Linda

 

Linda~    I am planning to attend that meeting also.  I look forward to meeting you.  I am sorry to hear about the Eugene group.  I had referred my sister-in-laws mother to that group.  She is just in the beginning stages and looking for more information and inspiration.

Hope to meet you next week.
Chelea

 Yes, I'm sad about the group.  We started out with about 20 people and it was so fun to share stories, offer suggestions to problems, etc.  Attendance dwindled to about 10, then 4, then 3, then the last time I went I was the only one there.  Considering I need to do updates on training which involve long conference calls, etc., it just didn't seem worth it to me anymore (I was the group leader), so I closed it down.  I suppose I should have made it more exciting by inviting speakers, etc., but it seemed we were all so busy sharing, I don't know when we would have found the time.  I for one know I can use all the help I can get.

Linda