Meet and Greet BBQ/Health Seminar June 28th reminder!

Just a reminder-reminder lol!! Only 6 days to the big event!  Sue and I are so excited and can't wait to see you all!  I am reposting the original notice and have some extra details for you: We will hang balloons on the mail box as it is often difficult to see our door number! First come will get the best parking spaces - other may have to park down the road and walk a little - but look at it this way - that can be some of your exercise for the day! We have goodies for you - so when you come in and register you will be given stuff to take away and keep!  So come early to make sure you get everything you can for free! More on that at the BBQ. We also have some great door prizes for you!  We will be issuing an agenda later today hopefully - this will not be held to exactly but be what we PLAN to do for the day - we are flexible..... If you are bringing water as your side dish can you let me know so I can plan how many we will need. We will be supplying Sugar free 0-5 calorie Fruit punch, lemonade and orange and of course water and crystal light assorted packets. If you plan to drink alcohol please bring your own as this is also a health seminar so we do not plan to be serving it. For those of you not on full solids we will also have the magic bullet here so feel free to come and mix and blend your food - do not feel you have to struggle to eat solids if you do not want to! The BBQ menu consists of boneless skinless chicken thighs, chicken drumsticks, small chicken breasts, pieces of pork, salmon, turkey hot dogs, turkey burgers - I think I captured it all.........  We will be still having a BBQ no matter what the weather - means we will move the eating inside the house - may be a little chaotic but who cares - we will all eat well and have fun together all over the house - luckily my house is a decent size in case the weather is bad....! If anyone is bringing a spouse who thinks they excel at grilling please let me know if they want to volunteer their services - all help gratefully accepted at the grilling station! We want this to be a fun participatory event. I still need before and after pictures - if you don't get them to me by Wednesday I can't promise to include them on the DVD which will play throughout the day...... please send them to [email protected] as they are very encouraging for new post ops and pre-ops alike! We still need recognitions - again please get them to me by Wednesday - these are if you want to recognize someone who has gone above and beyond just losing their weight and you think they should be commended on it! These are YOUR recognitions and nothing to do with Sue and I although we will review them all. Just a reminder that if you haven't registered for this event you still have time  - write here or send me a PM - you still have time - let us know! All are welcome so please let us know if you are thinking about attending so we can make sure we have enough BBQ food and drinks etc. We may not eat as much as non surgery people but we still like to eat  - right?....   -----------------------------------------------------------------

Meet and Greet BBQ/Health Seminar – June 28^th 2008 at 1pm

 

 Location – Jackie’s House,

75 Riggs Road, Fredericksburg, VA 22405 , Tel: 540 370 0205

 

You are invited to Obesity Freedom’s (Jackie Thodos and Sue Baker’s) Meet and Greet BBQ/Health Seminar on June 28^th starting at 1pm until ……….around 7pm or whatever time we finish…… 

 

We will supply the BBQ meat/fish/water/soft drinks etc and all we ask is that you bring a dish to share (with the recipe, nutritional information and your name where possible) - some kind of healthy dish we can all eat. It can be salads, side dishes, desserts etc just something that everyone will enjoy……..  We will post the good ones on our website afterwards…….

 Can you also send me a before and after picture  ( send to [email protected]) so we can set them up for everyone to see – these are very inspirational to new ops and people thinking about surgery.  Please also bring your success stories as during the day we will do some talking about successes and you want to be able to tell yours.

 

The health seminar part of it will be a live demonstration on powdered vitamins / proteins / anti-oxidants that we will be offering on our web site but we would like you to taste them and give us your opinion on them  – if they taste awful please say so - absolutely no obligation to buy unless you want to. No pressure I promise! But we have experts to come and talk about them….. and the benefits for gastric bypass patient’s absorption issues…… they were also featured in the Healthy You magazine late last year..  So a little education and a lot of fun!!  Please feel free to bring your other spouses/other halves too – they are all welcome. This is a great opportunity to get in touch with others who have had the surgery, or thinking about it and just spend a few hours chatting, laughing – getting re-energized, learning new recipes

 Just send me an email or PM to let us know you will be coming so we can plan to have enough food….. and chairs etc

 Looking forward to seeing you all there! It is always a fun time when we get together!

 

Jackie and Sue…….

 

PS. If anyone has any other ideas of things they would like to see there (like Jill's Pole Dancing Video and Anne's hula dancing) please let us know and we will try to arrange that............ 

 

 

 

Jackie, I am so excited and looking forward to this event and finally meeting you all.   Can I bring Watermelon, honey dew and cantalope?   I would need to cut it all up at your house though.  I have a tray thing to put it in.   Anna

That would be just fabulous Anna!!  Melon always goes down well. Just make yourself at home when you get here.......I am so excited to meet you finally too!   Jackie

Hi Jackie!    Looking forward to the bbq. I'll bring a healthy fruit salad. Thanks, Cindy from C'ville. 

Sounds great Cindy! I am looking forward to meeting you Jackie