Hi Ann I can help you get started! If you can give me your email addy I can email you off the board ok?? Looking forward to hearing from you Michelle

Ladies, ladies... I am excited to see so many of you creating scrapbooks of your weight loss journey. I am a Creative Memories consultant. I had my surgery Nov. 4 and am down 93 pounds. I, of course, did a scrapbook to document my journey. I never want to forget how hard the journey was. My album consists of a before photo of my girlfriend and I (she had her surgery 4 weeks after me) in front of the Roly Poly sign. Yes, we must laugh at ourselves. I also included my letters of recommendation from physicians as well as the big letter of approval from insurance. Then I included all the greetings and well wishes from friends upon obtaining a surgery date. I used calendar pages to then document the day of surgery, and the weight loss following. I make sure to put photos on the calendar pages as well as document my weight and measurements (don't forget those measurements). I also jot down milestones like being able to buckle my dance shoes with ease or where a normal size bath towel around me. Hope these ideas help you in creating your scrapbook...in celebration of YOU. Cindy

Lots of thanks to all of you for your great ideas! We had our surgery on July 18th and you bet we took the camera! I have a great shot of us in the same hospital room trying to hold hands! I started journaling last march of 2002 and I have been taking pictures all the way! I love creative memories stuff and I have a lot of STUFF! I was thinking of getting the natural album. I just love everybodys suggestons!

That is such a great idea. I should have thought of that considering I ama Creative Memories consultant. So far, all I can do is pre-op pictures and then the materials I have picked up from Doc Fisher's first step - the orientation and then the intake meeting. What other things can you suggest from the pre-op stage? We sell a package for the 12 x 12 album called This is your Life. I think that will be the package I use for the stickers, layout, etc. HUGS Sheila

another scrapper here! I am still in the beginning of this whole process. Inever thought of doing a scrapbook on my wls! Ü I see people bring before and after pictures to the support group meeitngs...jsut imagine what we could create to pass around? Great idea! I will start thinking up what I can do for layouts!