Conference in Charlotte, NC (not OH)

Success: After Weight Loss Surgery

Are you still losing?

Have you stopped losing?

Are you regaining weight?

If you said YES to any of those questions, you are not alone!

Come learn winning ways to lose. Join others who have chosen weight loss surgery to improve their lives. Bond with those who want to re-charge, re-focus and rev-up their weight loss!

When:   May 2^nd- 4^th

Where:   Charlotte, NC

Charlotte University Hilton Hotel

8629 J M

Charlotte, NC 28262

For reservations call (704) 547-7444 Special room rate with code *Get2gether*

How: Complete and return your registration form by April 9^th!

Rooms are going fast!

For more information please e-mail [email protected]

Success: After WLS Agenda

Friday:

4:30-5:30 Registration

5:30-6:30 Meet & Greet                      

6:45-8:00 Dinner – “Timing, Expectations and the Art of Body Contouring”

                                                Dr. Peter J. Capizzi, MD, FACS

9:00- Bedtime or time to RELAX

Saturday:

6:30-7:30- Group Exercise w/ Annie Lee

8:00 – Breakfast / (on your own, protein supplements will be available)

9:00 – General Session – “Calories In –vs- Calories Out”

                                      Dr. David C. Voellinger, MD, FACS

10:00- BREAK- Water/Stretch/Restroom

10:15 – 1^st Session w/ Break- out Group –Track “Consumption Assumption”

                                                                          Heather Mackie, MS, RD, LDN

11:30- Lunch- B2G Slide Show

1:00- 2^nd Session with Break-Out Group- Track “A thyroid Problem Doesn’t Make You Pick-up Chocolate Cake”

                                                                                 Lin Hanley, ACSW, LCSW

2:00-  BREAK- Water/Stretch/Restroom

2:15- 3^rd Session w/ Break-Out Group- Track “I Don’t Have an Extra 15 Minutes to Exercise- But I Do for the Drive-Thru!”

                                                                             Annie Lee, MS- Exercise Physiologist

3:15- General Session (Gender/ Spouse Specific)- “It Never Was an Issue Until WLS…”

                                                    Melissa Miller, Psy D /Jeff Lorrence, MA, LPA

4:15- FREE TIME

6:30- Dinner

7:30- Keynote Speaker – Surprise Speaker! Uplifting & Motivational

9:00- Bedtime or time to RELAX

Sunday-

6:30-7:30- Group Exercise w/ Annie Lee

8:00- Breakfast / (on your own, protein supplements will be available)

9:00- General Session – “Get Back on the Wagon”

                                    Dr. David C. Voellinger, MD, FACS

9:45- BREAK- Water/Stretch/Restroom

10:00- General Session – “What is the Role of Medical Management?”

                                                     Marjorie Whitehead, PA

11:00- Who’s the Before Picture? -  What did I come with, what will I leave with?

12:00- Check-Out

12:30- End of Conference (See you soon!)

“Consumption Assumption”: This is going to be it! You’ve turned the page on your old ha*****apter and you’re headed in the right direction with your food choices… right?

Stinking thinking and quick trigger responses coming back into play? Did having one cookie turn into four? Just like before…

Have your food journal assessed by a nutritionist. Come learn new ways to fill your pouch, feel satisfied with healthy and wholesome calories.

Don’t let your “cheat treat” be your defeat ever again!

“A Thyroid Problem Doesn’t Make You Pick-up Chocolate Cake”: You had surgery because somewhere at sometime you realized your health was heading down hill fast, if it wasn’t sitting at the bottom already.

Weight came off, medicines were discontinued from your file, you’re having fewer and fewer office visits, and you feel great! You just KNEW it was that diabetes, thyroid, OSA that was keeping you obese…

So why is it so hard to get to goal? Why is weight creeping back on?

What could possibly be wrong now? Is it back to the doctor, or is time for a self-evaluation…

Come create your own file, what can you discontinue from your own life? What assisted those ailments in your battle with obesity; could it have been cheese crackers and rocky road ice cream?

Let’s find out together, those snacks and old emotions could be sitting in someone else’s pantry too…

“I Don’t Have an Extra 15 Minutes to Exercise – But I Do for the Drive-Thru!”: You don’t recall ever being told to exercise after surgery… Your doctor didn’t even make you have a fitness evaluation before you had your procedure!

Why do I have to learn how to implement proper fitness into my life? You never wanted to be a skinny-minny and you certainly don’t want to “bulk-up”…

Who has time to walk laps around the neighborhood with soccer practice- piano recitals- house ware parties and has anyone seen my spouse?

You may never learn to Love exercise, but you can learn what benefits it has for you mind and soul, not just your body! Get the fundamentals of exercise for bodies that are going through transformations.