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 Support Groups
You are WELCOME at The Weight Loss Center at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Support Groups whether you are investigating weight loss surgery or you have had weight loss surgery.
Losing significant weight brings many changes in your life - some you expect, others you may not. After your surgery, you're encouraged to attend The Weight Loss Center at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Support Groups. You'll find they're an important source of information, encouragement, and support.
Support groups are an excellent opportunity to get together with others who had surgery in our program and with the professionals in our program. The groups are run by a professional group leader. Support groups will routinely have useful short talks on a number of subjects. The Weight Loss Center at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center surgeon, registered dieticians, nurses, and a myriad of other guests will present useful talks on subjects that will interest you. If the group identifies a subject they want to have presented, The Weight Loss Center at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center will try to arrange an appropriate talk.
But the most important aspects of support groups is REAL advice from patients who have either gone through it or are going through it, whatever is on your mind. You'll hear about what others are experiencing as they enter their new lives. And, by sharing your feelings and experiences with people who can personally relate to them, you'll gain new insights...and new friends. These groups often deal with:
- Emotional changes - learn how to overcome issues in a welcoming environment.
- Nutritional advice - You can get formal advice and practical tips. Trade recipes with other patients.
- Vitamin and protein supplementation strategies, from professionals in our program and practical tips from other patients.
- Exercise challenges - other patients share secrets of success. Get advice on how to overcome plateaus. How to exercise when your mobility is limited and your joints ache to transitioning to activity levels you may have never dreamed of.
- Body changes such as
- Body concepts- how will you feel as you start to look thinner?
- Excess skin - your group leader can provide you with a detailed informational guide, and The Weight Loss Center at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Reconstructive Surgeons periodically attend groups to give presentations on this subject.
- Relationship changes - learn from others who've been there.
Support groups are a safe place to share and where you will find a welcome listener. Our main mission is to provide an opportunity for you as The Weight Loss Center at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center patient to connect with other patients in a positive, supportive atmosphere, with educational information sessions to aid your progress, while sharing individual successes and challenges. You'll find people at varying stages, both pre-op and post-op, coming together to provide support and encouragement and building new friendships. The Weight Loss Center at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Support Group meetings are specifically for The Weight Loss Center at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center patients, their supportive friends and family, or those considering weight loss surgery in our program.
For those considering weight loss surgery in our program:
We ask that you attend at least one of our support groups before your surgery and attend as many as you can before surgery. We also encourage patients to talk at length one on one with another patient, and it would be ideal for your family members and friends to speak to our former patients and their families. This perpective is invaluable.
CRMC Weight Loss Center
Weight Loss Surgery Support Groups
Pre and post operative Gastric Bypass, Gastric Sleeve resection, and Lap-Band patients and their support people are encouraged to attend.
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Laramie
3rd Thursday of each month from 6 - 7pm
Education rooms @ Ivinson Memorial Hospital
Lead by Caroljean Bongo, PsyD
Phone 307-633-7619 | Toll free 866-633-7619 |
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 Free Informational Lectures
Dr. Fermelia offers free monthly informational lectures on Weight Loss Surgery in Cheyenne. On the first Tuesday of the month we discuss Gastric Bypass Roux-en-Y, the Gastric Sleeve Resection AND the Gastric Band.
We televise our live lectures on the first Tuesday of the month to a number of venues throughout Wyoming. Check of the Weight Loss Center staff for details (866 633-7619).
You, your friends and family are encouraged to attend the lectures. You may want to attend more than one.
Please register for the lectures with the Weight Loss Center before the lecture, so they can give you more information and a registration packet.
Rebecca Grant, LPN
Operations Manager
CRMC's Lifestyle Management Program
email: Rebecca.Grant@CRMCWY.org
421 E. 17th Street | Cheyenne, WY 82001
Phone 307-633-6114 | Toll-free 866-633-7619 | Fax 307-633-7621
Personal cell phone: 307-256-0012
We have a DVD available of our lecture and if you live out of Cheyenne you may see our "Introduction to Weight Loss Surgery" lecture that way.
The Weight Loss Center
421 East 17th Street, Cheyenne, WY 82001
307-633-7619 866-633-7619
Free Informational Lectures: Our Patient, Family, and Friends lectures. Please invite
all the people in your personal support system to learn about weight loss surgery.
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This program is designed and was conceived to benefit the people of Wyoming, with our unique circumstances: large traveling distances, small populations, weather