I'm very interested in becoming leader or helping to get the New York chapter up and running. I'm a year post op and have helped 2 people like myself prepare for gastric sleeve surgery. I wanna help more people in every way possible achieve weight loss success like I have. It is truly a life changing event. I'm currently a student I'm music engineering school. My weekends and some evenings after 5:30 are free

I'd be interested in the details of the meet-up too! I live in Brooklyn & work in Manhattan and I'm scheduled for sleeve surgery at NYU on Jan 29th! Having some local support from people who have been through this process would be fantastic

Hope you can make it on Sunday BloomingLotus. The meeting details are in the post. Feel free to PM me if you have any questions.

@@gowalking - I will be there! For some weird reason, I couldn't see the details in your prior post from my iPhone app

But when I clicked your post and chose "quote" the info showed up for me when I went to reply.

How bizarre! I'm excited to meet you all ????

Super! See you Sunday.

Sorry my husband works Sunday so I have no child care but keep me updated on the next one. Sorry to miss it!!!

Hope to make it.

@@BloomingLotus even though you have not had your surgery as yet our group is open to all pre-op and post- op. We find there is much to learn from those just starting out as well as veterans who have been at this for a while

@@lisacaron that's what I was hoping for! I start my pre-op liquids on the 15th so it's really starting to feel real! While I may not have much to contribute to the meeting this time, I hope that by the next meeting I have a lot to say!

Great - I will try to make it!

Hi all

thanks for volunteering to lead this and for getting it going. I am actually from northern NJ but could not find any closer groups. I found that really surprising. do you know if they are planning on starting anything new in NJ? i was sleeved on December 9 and am doing ok but would love to have a support group with veterans who i could run issues by and with others who are going through it at the same time as I am.

Hi all

thanks for volunteering to lead this and for getting it going. I am actually from northern NJ but could not find any closer groups. I found that really surprising. do you know if they are planning on starting anything new in NJ? i was sleeved on December 9 and am doing ok but would love to have a support group with veterans who i could run issues by and with others who are going through it at the same time as I am.

You can check the NJ threads (if there are any). We welcome anyone from the tri-state area so please feel free to join us. You are not the only person from Jersey who has attended so no worries there. I'm looking forward to meeting you Jaime.

This meeting coincides with the 14th annual no-pants subway ride... This could be be quite the interesting commute over! ????

Date changed to jam 16 on shakes want a good cup of coffee think it will ok just one cup

Just wanted to thank those who came out yesterday. It was a very good meeting...it always is when you get to meet virtual pals face to face.

I'm going to start working on the clothing exchange and will post here first and then in the clothing exchange area if more people need to be reached.

As we discussed, since many folks take mass transit in our group, it makes more sense to post pictures with short descriptions including size obviously. Let's start that way and see how successful we are. I'll be posting some pictures shortly of some 'better' items I have that I just can't bring myself to simply give away to Goodwill. I'd much prefer if someone on BariatricPal gets first dibs. Stay tuned!

Edited January 12, 201511 yr by gowalking

It was nice to meet you all as well! Thank you for getting everyone together.

PS - I got my news this morning: I'm officially approved!

It was nice to meet you all as well! Thank you for getting everyone together.

PS - I got my news this morning: I'm officially approved!

Fantastic! Great news!