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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Introduce Yourself Latest Topics</title><link>https://www.bariatricpal.com/forum/1323-introduce-yourself/</link><description>Introduce Yourself Latest Topics</description><language>en</language><item><title>Start here: tell us where you are</title><link>https://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/447658-start-here-tell-us-where-you-are/</link><description><![CDATA[<p>I'm Alex, founder of BariatricPal. This forum is new, and it has one job: getting you your first reply.</p><p>Post an introduction. Cover three things:</p><ol><li>Where you are in the process right now.</li><li>What you are trying to decide.</li><li>One thing you want to ask people who have already been through it.</li></ol><p>Share only what you want to share. No weights, no photos, no surgery date if you would rather keep those private.</p><p>Two things worth knowing before you post.</p><p>Nobody here is your medical team. What you get is people who have been where you are, telling you what it was actually like. Keep the medical questions for your surgeon or your doctor.</p><p>We do not take money from vendors, clinics, or drug manufacturers. Nothing here is recommended to you because someone paid for it.</p><p>Whether you are researching surgery, waiting on insurance, three weeks post-op, five years out, or on a GLP-1 and trying to figure out what comes next, you are in the right place.</p><p>Go ahead and introduce yourself.</p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">447658</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:09:44 +0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
