brookhaven obesity clinic

[hinaman]

A little under 2 years ago I weighed 465 lbs; my doc was a bit worried about my heart as I had an ejection fracton of only 45. I started on a serius dieting program and exercize and lost aabout 115 lbs.  But in the last 4 months I've maniged to loss only 20 lbs so I was wondering if I should consider the brookhaven obseity clinic? does anyone know how to contact them?

thanks

[hinaman]

hey thanks for the encouagement!  Yeah I'm seeing my doc next week and he will do another echo I think. I dont think I'l have troble staing with the program  I can walk pretty good now and I dont spend so much time righting letters at my 'puter. Its good not to be practicailly bedridden anymore! guess im a little frustratid because pounds are coming of so slow, but thx again!  I'll look more into the brookhaven place but could be your right that im not quite fat enough LOL

[erijon]

You've done very well, dropping from 465 to 350 is very good! From what I know about the Brookhaven Clinic, they specialize in the seriously morbidly obese and at your current weight you may not be able to get in, depending on if they have room in their program. Most spaces a held for those with much more serious weight issues.

Don't get discouraged, you'll get there. You doing great, just stay the course. It's all about diet and exercise, you know that, you've lived it!

I would get a current physical and cardiac work up and make sure there is no medical reason for not being able to lose weight. If everything came back good, I would just keep going, those last pounds are the toughest!

Keep it up!

Jon