We're working on adding new features to LBT over the next few months. If you have any suggestions on features you'd like to see added, please let us know.

Here is a list of what we're working on:

- New LBT forum skin design

- Photo Gallery

- Fix journals

- Clothes exchange

- Our own Tickers geared for Bandsters.

- Surgery dates

- Angel feature

- Allow members to add, rate, review and discuss Insurers, Govt programs, Hospitals, Lap-band Surgeon, Plastic Surgeon, Dietician/Nutritionist, Primary Care Physician, Psychologist, sleep Center Professional and other professionals

- Lap-band Surgeon and Lap-band Professionals Directory

Hope this hasn't been suggested or already here...

I'm looking for a file section w/ examples of Medical Necessity letters.

Would hate for my MD to add the wrong thing to a letter.

I have loved this site. It has been such a great blessing to me and my family (DH, DS and I are all banded.) I love some of the new changes that have been made lately. The changes have made the site much more user friendly. Now for the things that I would like to see:

--Tickers that are LBT specific

--Forums age specific like teens, 20s, 30s, 40s

--Forums weightloss specific:: Dotties has a group for those who need to lose 50 pounds, 100 pounds, etc. Those are great because you get to know people who are in the same boat you are in. LOL

--The ability to revise a post. I hate when I post something then relize that something is wrong.

I think that's about all. Thanks so much for all the hard work that goes into this site.

You can revise a post. Just click on "edit" and when you get a page full of smilies, click on "Advanced." Sometimes extra characters are added that you need to delete and if you had a lot of formatting in your post, it can get messy but most of the time, it's easy.

It would be nice to have a section for pregnant bandsters or women that have the band and plan to be pregnant. I plan to have more kids and worry/wonder about what will happen with my band during pregnancy, delivery, breast feedding, etc. Will I need an unfill? Will I gain weight? etc, etc

I would really like to be able to change the forum skin, like we used to be able to do. The ghost arm that the chick at the top has bugs me to no end.

I don't like her either.

To edit: Highlight everything in your post. Click on edit.

All the smiley faces will come up. Click on edit again.

Then you will get the box that you post in and can make

your changes. Click on save changes.

How about a place where people can record their own personal journey without the thread being interrupted by other bandsters congratulating or moving away from the subject in question. It would be best if only the 'diary owner' was able to write in it. It would need a form to fill in so that each bandster diary starts with the same information, in the same order, so that readers could see at a glance everything they need to know. They would be able to refer back to it as they need to / or as the story unfolds. Apart from this being great for all of us to read, it will also be a cathartic exercise.

How about a place where people can record their own personal journey without the thread being interrupted by other bandsters congratulating or moving away from the subject in question. It would be best if only the 'diary owner' was able to write in it. It would need a form to fill in so that each bandster diary starts with the same information, in the same order, so that readers could see at a glance everything they need to know. They would be able to refer back to it as they need to / or as the story unfolds. Apart from this being great for all of us to read, it will also be a cathartic exercise.

i think that's called a "blog"

I would like it if we could add friends. There are several people on these forums that are around the same "point" in their journey as me and I would like to keep up with them. I have a hard time remembering names and being able to add friends would be nice.

Thank you Mr NG. I agree that it is a blog - but with a bit of a difference in that a standard form could be used to begin it, so that the relevant details are not ommitted. Is there a place already on this forum to do a 'blog' then? Perhaps I have missed it somewhere. x

I would like it if we could add friends. There are several people on these forums that are around the same "point" in their journey as me and I would like to keep up with them. I have a hard time remembering names and being able to add friends would be nice.

When you click on someone's name, one of the choices is to add him or her to your "Buddy List." You can access your Buddy List through the UserCP.

I just want to say thank you for creating LBT and keeping it going. I have found that all the changes I've made in life were sucessful because I had a group or web group to help. I think you do a great job already on this talk forum, any improvements are icing on the cake.

I find it hard to be to critical of this site because it has been a blessing for me and I appreciate the effort that goes on behind the scenes to manage this effort. I also appreciate not getting spammed and pop ups on every time I visit so thank you.

The only issue I have as a newbie is that there are some threads that are hundreds and hundreds of pages long. It seems that these longer threads have lost the original focus and have turned into chat rooms. Don't get me wrong not everything I post is a factual Gem but when you are told as a newbie to read a thread that is laced with hundreds of "I love my bug" and "got my bug today YeeHaw" it gets tiresome.

I find it hard to be to critical of this site because it has been a blessing for me and I appreciate the effort that goes on behind the scenes to manage this effort. I also appreciate not getting spammed and pop ups on every time I visit so thank you.

The only issue I have as a newbie is that there are some threads that are hundreds and hundreds of pages long. It seems that these longer threads have lost the original focus and have turned into chat rooms. Don't get me wrong not everything I post is a factual Gem but when you are told as a newbie to read a thread that is laced with hundreds of "I love my bug" and "got my bug today YeeHaw" it gets tiresome.

I gotta agree! There's nothing wrong with folks banding together but I wish the title of the thread could be changed and they can continue their chat. Meanwhile, a new thread can be started on the original topic. Or maybe more moderation could keep threads on topics and the new group of friends could start over elsewhere.

I really think it's great that these online friendships form and keep going over months and even years. But when it happens on a support thread with a specific topic, it can be a turn-off to the rest of us.

Thanks!

Just wanted to say that the new forums are very cool!

I love this site. My link is the Canada link. What I would love to see is for you to make your own "ticker" section. I find going to another webpage and trying to transfer it to my profile and signature really awkward. Unless of course maybe Ticker factory has a patent.