At the start of Saturday’s activities, I visited with a number of the vendors supporting this year’s event - first up, Mike from Apollo Endosurgery, the folks behind the LapBand System, chatted with me about their newest obesity treatment option,...
Next up, I was able to chat with Dr. Walter Medlin… in his own words he’s a “Bariatric Doctor, Bariatric Patient, and Part-Time Advocate”. He was part of a panel talk on the “rules” patients are told about life after...
In this clip, I chatted with Nancee, she had surgery at the same center I did… and then also with Nikki aka Bariatric Foodie. Nancee talks about how what she’s learned after this first day of the convention some things...
Being on the Welcoming Committee, I get to send out welcome letters to a fair chunk of the attendees, and it was great seeing how many first time attendees we had this year. Here I get to chat with one...
During the first morning of the actual YWM2015 event I decided to wander about a bit and start chatting with people, one of the first people I got to catch up with is Robin Robin - A nurse by day,...
https://positively-healthy.com/audio/2015/YWM2015-01.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThis weekend I am down in San Antonio, TX for the Obesity Action Coalition‘s annual convention, Your Weight Matters. Yesterday, I took part in the Finding the Power of Your Voice advocacy training, and...
Recently I sat down and had a very nice chat with Reeger Cortell of the Weight Loss Surgery Podcast. That conversation was about a list of 10 obstacles people feel they face when considering bariatric surgery as a treatment for...
This is Part 5, and as it turns out the final group of interviews. There are a lot of folks in this one, it’s a bit longer than the rest, but it was either that or make two that were...
Part 2 of… ? the group of interviews I did during Your Weight Matters 2014! This one starts out with me chatting with Shannon and Haley of Celebrate Vitamins - we talked about some of their new products the variety...
This is the first of what is going to be a number of audio posts, a collection of interviews I did during this years Your Weight Matters, the annual convention for the Obesity Action Coalition. I decided to just chat...
