Share Your Weight Loss Surgery Thoughts, Experiences & Advice

It couldn't be simpler...

1. Pick a weight loss surgery or obesity-related topic by clicking one of the Subject Links below, then click the Sub-Topic you want to write about.
2. Type your weight loss surgery or obesity-related thoughts, experience or advice (and upload pictures if you'd like).
3. Click "Submit" button at the end of the form.
4. Your very own web page will be created where:
   1. You can make updates
   2. Others can comment or ask questions

Subject Links: click a topic below, then click the sub-topic link to go to your form...

• Cause and effect of your obesity
• Your decision to have surgery (& why you chose your procedure)
• Cost, insurance and financing
• Your surgeon and clinic
• Recovery
• Diet & Recipes
• Life after surgery
• Plastic surgery after weight loss
• Support groups (face-to-face or online)
• Book reviews
• Upload a video

To document your full journey, click here. You can start by sharing details about yourself, your decision to have surgery and what stage you are at now. You can then come back to your personal page at any time to make additional posts.

Cause and effect of obesity: sub-topics

• Obesity discrimination: Create awareness by sharing your experiences.
• Obesity virus: Been tested for the fat virus? Considering it? Tell us...
• Obese teenagers and parents of obese teenagers, please share here.

Deciding that surgery is right for you: sub-topics

• Why bariatric surgery: Why did you decide to move forward with surgery?
• Which procedure: Which bariatric surgery procedures fit you best and why?
• Teenagers and adolescent bariatric surgery patients and parents, please share here.

Cost, insurance and financing: sub-topics

• Insurance approval: How did you get bariatric surgery insurance approval?
• Insurance denial: Did insurance deny your surgery? Fight back by publishing your story and insurance appeal letter.
• Payment method: How did you (or will you) pay for what insurance doesn't cover?
• Taxes: What medical tax deductions did you claim?
• Travel to save: Did you receive/consider having surgery in Mexico or abroad? How much did it/would it have saved?

Your weight loss surgeon & clinic: sub-topics

• Tell us about your surgeon
• Adolescent bariatric surgery patients and parents, please share here.
• Travel for surgery: Did you receive/consider having bariatric surgery in Mexico or abroad?

Recovering from surgery: sub-topics

• Complications/side effects: Did you experience (or are you concerned about) bariatric surgery complications or side effects?
• Diet: Tell us about your diet during recovery.
• Recovery: Your bariatric surgery recovery - what was it like?
• Adolescent bariatric surgery patients and parents, please share here.

Diet after surgery & bariatric-friendly recipes: sub-topics

• During recovery: Your diet during recovery.
• Long-term: Share your bariatric diet and eating habits and advice.
• Helpful tools/journals: Your experience with food journals or other tools.
• Adolescent bariatric surgery patients and parents, please share here.
• Bariatric-friendly recipes:
  • Breakfast bariatric-friendly recipes
  • Lunch bariatric-friendly recipes
  • Dinner bariatric-friendly recipes
  • Appetizer bariatric-friendly recipes
  • Soup bariatric-friendly recipes
  • Salad bariatric-friendly recipes
  • Dessert bariatric-friendly recipes

Life after surgery: sub-topics

• Complications/side effects: Did you experience (or are you concerned about) bariatric surgery complications or side effects?
• Diet: Diet after obesity surgery (will jump you back up this page to that section)
• Health improvement: How did YOUR health problems change after bariatric surgery?
• Helpful tools/journals: Your experience with food journals or other tools
• Relationships: How did your relationships change after surgery?
• Weight loss: How much weight have you lost?
• Weight regain: Tell us about weight gain you experienced after bariatric surgery.
• Pregnancy after weight loss surgery: Please share your story.
• Adolescent bariatric surgery patients and parents, please share here.

Plastic surgery after weight loss: sub-topics

• Tummy tuck: Share your tummy tuck stories & pre/post tummy tuck surgery photos
• Thigh lift: Share your thigh lift stories & pre/post thigh lift plastic surgery photos

Weight loss surgery support groups: sub-topics

• Support Groups: Share your experiences with face-to-face or online weight loss surgery support groups (will jump you down the page to that section)
• Adolescent bariatric surgery patients and parents, please share here.

Book reviews

• Read a good (or bad) bariatric surgery or obesity-related book lately? Share your review!

Document your bariatric surgery progress...

...for other visitors AND for you!

Whether you include your name and/or pictures is completely up to you.

In addition to helping other visitors with your experiences, in the future it might be neat for you to have a place to come back and review your progress as the months and years pass.

Your updates could be as simple as posting a new comment every month to log your weight along with a tip or two you learned that month. Or they could be as detailed as you'd like.

Weight Loss Surgery Journeys of Other Visitors

Click below to see contributions from other visitors...