Wow the response to a National LAP-BAND Convention has been amazing.

I am going to go forward and plan this event. I already have Mary Jo Rapini from "Big Medicine" confirmed as a guest speaker.

The dates for the convention will be

October 3-5 2008

Oct 3rd will be a meet and greet from 6:00pm until 9:00 pm

Oct 4th will be the main convention guest speakers and break out groups

Oct 5th will be successful bandsters sharing their stories

Saturday evening we will have a Fall Fling dinner, dancing and socializing.

Special guest will include

Surgeons (Bariatric and Plastic)

Nutritionist

Chef- Chef Leslie (Banded Patient) will be there to discuss healthy band recipes with us.

Psychotheropist- Mary Jo Rapini (Big Medicine) will be discussing Body Image and Sexuality

Stylist

Personal Trainer

Motivational Speakers

A photographer will be there to take pictures of the event. We will have a clothing exchange and let the stylist help us choose the right clothes for our body.

We will have people volunteer to receive a make-over and then we will choose 3 people via random draw to receive a make-over after the Saturday event and before the Fall Fling (should be fun).

You will also receive goodie bags with lots of good band friendly goodies.

I will post more information as I get everything hammered out.

I'm excited to host this event and look forward to you guys making it a success!!

Edited May 8, 200818 yr by CoachCher

Count me in...

cher,

don't forget to see if there are any vendors who make band friendly products and vitamins, etc. that can set up booths for us to get familiar with APPROPRIATE products. (Non bypass products - like I mentioned with the 833% B-12 in a vitamin) I think things like hair care for those few who have thinning hair, protein supplements, vitaminstummy pillows, scales, single serving foods in appropriate sizes, soy products (including samples for those who are intimidated by it), FUN exercise equipment with demonstrations and videos, support garments for those who don't want to or can't afford plastic surgery, organic health foods and soups, band friendly condiments, full cut swimwear, herb teas for non-carbonated options. The list is endless but many don't know where to begin!

It's open to pre and post op band patients regardless of what type of band they have. It could be the lap-band, the realize band and so forth.

Thanks for all of the great ideas Aubrie. I am in the process of contacting vendors who have band friendly products.

Count me in.

I am so excited about this!:biggrin:

I am equally excited; this is going to be an amazing weekend!!

coachcher, I saw your dates up for the convention in dallas this october, it sounds great,, I am still learning how to use this site, very confusing. I thing I opened my email for this thread so we will see if it works,, if not you can contact me at jlmyers@dsmyers.com to provide additional inform regarding convention etc.

I also saw your friends invite on this site, but I don't really understand how all this works, when I quite working with computers in 92 everything was DOS and I hate computers, give me the old fashioned way to do things,, anyway I tried to respond to it. but have no idea if it worked, I dont want to put my yahoo email open to all lapband responses because it overloads my site. So for now I just try to find this thread every few days and check it out.

I think that you have struck GOLD!!! w2g!! I'm in!

Hi Sugrbear,

I sent you an email.

Keep me in the loop, I think that the conference will be a great opportunity for lap banders to meet and show support to each other.

I am interested but what vendors are going to be there? From the web page it looked like three, to spend the kind of money this is going to cost i am hopefull that there are a lot more than that. Can you post or send me a list?

Thanks!

Evelyn

Hello,

I was wondering what ever happened to this topic. I have not heard anything about it since May. Whatever became of the idea? Anyone who knows please reply.

Thanks,

Renee'

This is the page I found when I searched for more Cher posts....

http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f17/2008-national-lap-band-conference-74558/