Attended a support group meeting with a friend. There were about 80 people there and not surprising most were quite obese. What got us was when we went around the room with everyone giving their surgery date/weight loss etc and it turned out that most of the people there were a year plus out - and hadn't lost much weight or had reached a plateau. Sadly, the people running the meeting (surgeon's group)had no valuable input to give beyond the same old "60-80grams of Protein!, Exercise!, Eat Less!" Equally troubling - the number of attendees who'd had the procedure yet had no clue about proper nutrition, the presenter when fielding a question from a diabetic patient who commented that because she'd had the procedure she, "couldn't still be a diabetic...next question!..." and the push to go back on Medifast(which they sell - Buy some NOW!) when you reach a plateau.

I get more from this site and my NUT - thank God my doctor had the sense to hook me up with the right person!:thumbup:

That is too bad that the the support group didn't have much to offer. Yes, I love this sight but I enjoy my monthly face to face group as well. We have food tastings, field trips to gyms and cooking schools, recipes of the month, everyone contributes, a nurse runs it (previously it was a NUT who ran it), there are a mixture of banders and soon to be banders...just very well ran. Sorry you don't have the same experience.