I have been watching the obese programmes on tv all week and have decided I need to do something.. I watched Shaw Summers on there but can not find anything on him on the internet. I would like to know who to go with - how to start etc. I read about Belgium and here but I can not decide where is best. Can someone help me. I look at the stories on here and I wish I had done it sooner.:help:

Where are you located?

I live in Houston...and I remember when I first started out I just googled "lap band Houston" and found several doctors that way. Then when I visited one of the doctors website, he had a link to Obesity Help.com which has a forum (like this one)....I browsed it for awhile. I eventually found this forum and looked at hundreds of posts. I searched for the names of doctors I had found from my previous google and got info on 3 surgeons in my area that were all highly qualified. Googled their names and found out all I could about them. Went to one seminar for Dr. Spivak and signed up right there and then. I self=payed and one month later I am banded. Voila! That's how I did it!

Good luck to you!!!!

Are you in the U.S.? What state are you in? Maybe people can more easily recommend good doctors if we know a relative location!

Thanks for your reply but I am located in the UK and I need to lose around 80lbs to be healthy again. I saw that a lot of people are in America and all the information is welcome. Would also like to know at what stage the NHS will fund it. I am registered disabled due to severe backproblems and having spinal surgery twice. I feel like a skinny person locked in a big body:cry

Look on the main page and go all the way to the bottom, there is a room for UK bandsters! Maybe you can get more info there!