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Loving my DS!!
Thanks
I am happy to recommend the PS that did my plastics, her name is Christina Chang. Her officeis in Bountiful and she usually does he surgeries at Lakeview Hospital. She is awesome and has excellent skill and compassion. I had a panniculectomy and 6 hernia repairs and I'm thinking it was around 8k I also had inner thigh plasty that was around 7k.
Good Luck!
Kristen
YOU GOT TO HAVE A FOOD DIARY... please hon, do it, you will see,
YOU GOT TO MOVE EVERY DAY _ go for some long hard walks,
and finally youmay need a fill since your banded.... get to it!!!
am desperate to find a good priced one, or it will be Mexico?
I had no problems at all getting approved through Altius High Option. I did everything Altius required before surgery and then some. One extra thing I did was I had every Dr I saw FOR ANY REASON write a letter in support of my weight loss surgery. In the end I had about 11 Dr letters in my file at Dr Cottam's office. Once I had lost the 5% of weight that was required before surgery, Dr Cottams office faxed off all my medical papers to Altius. I was approved, sceduled and in surgery in about 3 weeks.
(I had worked on getting all my criteria met over the 2 prior years that I was entertaining the possibility of having WLS)
Good Luck
Sandi
In order for there to be change....there has to BE change.
I love Dr Cottam. I have never asked him a question he could not answer. He is very knowledgeable about WLS, nutrition and co-morbid conditions. Because of my health issues I was considered high risk which is why I picked Dr Cottam to do my surgery. He seemed extremely competant and I felt secure that if any complications arose...he would be able to fix it.
Well, here I am nearly 4 months past surgery and I have had no, zip, zero, nada complications.
Sandi
In order for there to be change....there has to BE change.
Mega Holiday Perks!
Each month we work with generous sponsors to bring 3 lucky OH newsletter subscribers a perk giveaway. A BIG thank you to all of our 2009 sponsors! Here is what was a part of our past perks: Celebrate Vitamins, Bariatric Advantage Vitamins, Chef Dave’s Cookbook, achievONE®, CLICK Espresso Protein Drink, Dr. Garth Davis’ Book, Chike, and Just The Cheese.
But we’re not done yet…To finish the year out, OH went holiday shopping!
For December, we have a special MEGA holiday perk line-up for OH Newsletter subscribers.
So far we have…
1 - Nintendo Wii Game Console + Wii Fit board & Game
3 - 10mp Kodak Easy Share Digital Cameras
2 - Apple iPod Nanos
2 - Tanita Scales PLUS Body Fat and Body Water Monitor
3 - MIO Heart Rate Monitor Watches
5 - Emsa Perfect Measuring Beakers
To be eligible for the holiday perks giveaway please make sure you are subscribed to the OH newsletter by December 9th. Winners will be selected at random from the OH newsletter subscribers list. Winners will be announced in the December issue.
Don’t forget to spread the holiday cheer and let others know!
Happy Holidays
Today we released a couple of major updates to Health Tracker just in time for the holidays (as we continue on the path to Health Tracker world domination :). These updates include, 1) Profile display of Health Tracker - If you choose to, you are now able to display/share your Health Tracker within your personal profile. This can be kept completely private, it can be shared with only your friends or with the entire ObesityHelp community. 2) My Workouts - You are now able to build and store custom workouts that can be used over and over again. My Workouts will allow you to log multiple exercise/activity items at one time so you don't have to search for individual exercises each time you want to log your activity or exercise session.
Profile Display of Health Tracker .
The profile display of Health Tracker includes Body, Food Log, Exercise Log and the Macronutrient Report. As mentioned above, this can be kept entirely private or you can choose to share your Health Tracker information with friends, family, your bariatric surgeon or other clinicians.
In order to see the profile view of Health Tracker, when viewing your profile or another member's profile, look for the Health Tracker link to the right of the avatar. If there is no Health Tracker link, the profile view of Health Tracker has been set to private.
The privacy settings for Health Tracker can be found in the "Settings" section of My OH. To access your Health Tracker setting click My OH at the top of any page on ObesityHelp, select "Settings" on the left, click the Health Tracker tab and choose the "Sharing" option. Or, just click here to access your Health Tracker Sharing options :)
Workouts
My Workouts makes it quick and easy to log routine exercise and activity. For those who perform similar exercises on a regular basis, with My Workouts you can create a workout consisting of a series of exercises you often perform and instead logging each exercise indivivudally, My Workouts allows to log a single item (a workout) that contains all of the exericses you have performed. Build it once and log it any number of times.
Under My Workouts you will see a list of workouts that you have created and saved. You can log workouts directly from My Workouts by selecting "I did this", choose the day and click "Save"
You can also search for workouts you have created directly from your Exercise Log.
Create your first workout now!
One other addition
For your convenience, in this release we have also made some changes to the account deactivation process. In case you ever have the need to deactivate your ObesityHelp account, you can access this function by clicking My OH at the top of any page on ObesityHelp, select "Settings" on the left, and under the "General" tab select "Manage". Instructions for deactivating your account can be found there.
Have a great Thanksgiving and look for more updates soon!
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about this release, please post them in this thread on the Main Message Board.
