LOSING 2 LIVE Retreat

Hi everyone, Well we finished our L2L retreat this past weekend and now I am recouped enough to tell you all about it.  I had such a great time and have become so motivated.  This was the first of many retreats we have to look forward to.  Next year's retreat will be July 18-20, 2008 at the Montgomery Bell State Park, check with the www.losing2live.com web site in the next few weeks to find out about it.  I am on the planning committee for 2008 so if you have any ideas please let me know.  The retreat is for patients of WLS no matter what doctor/hospital.  We had OH's own Bo McCoy and Steffney Payne at the retreat this year.  I just can't say enough about how motivational he weekend was.  We were busy, but we still had fun and got to mingle and meet the folks we had only either talked to online or on the phone.  Our very own Kym Brown designed the t-shirt for this years retreat.  We had 45 folks registered and the total weight loss for the group was 5,943.5 lbs.  That is almost 3 tons.  That is simply amazing.  Please check back with the website and join us next year.  We will be able to double the registrants next year since we have a bigger site. Darlene H

Darlene,                      Sounds like you had a great time wish I could of been there. Next for sure. Is this a group you join? And if so how do we sign up ? Need all the support I can get .                                                                                                    Thanks Sue

Hi Sue, We did have a great time, I am paying for it this week though, my fibromyalgia is kicking my but big time.  The idea for it sprang up on our yahoo support group.  If anyone would like to join it, just go to the link below and sign up, the moderators will usually approve your membership in a day and you just jump right in.  Hope to see you there. Darlene http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/centennial_support_grou p/

Hey Darlene!  I echo your sentiments about the retreat last weekend. It was wonderful. I'm a little down this week after the high from last weekend! I'm looking forward to next year as well! Janie