Weight loss surgery is a big part of a patient’s life, and chances of success from their surgery are enhanced when they are educated and supported. By writing articles, you are providing that important education and support that will make a long-lasting difference to them in their weight loss surgery journey.

Since ObesityHelp.com was founded in 1998, over 700,000 people have become registered members of our site. Each week, the site has over 3,000,000 page-views from people looking for education and support along their weight loss surgery journey.

If this is something you, or a member of your staff, would be interested in, we would feature an original article by you front and center on the ObesityHelp home page, as well as publish it in our weekly community newsletter! On top of that, you will also benefit from extra time in the spotlight as each of our articles are shared on ObesityHelp.com’s Facebook (over 13,000 fans) and Twitter (4,500 followers) accounts. Some articles may also be shared with social discovery sites such as Stumbleupon, Pinterest, Digg, etc. We also periodically re-share articles so potential patients, and new pre-op and post-op community members can benefit from your articles. We have an experienced staff that conducts focused key words searches and other search engine optimization on your article.

We have compiled a list of topics based on member questions and concerns, searches from Google Analytics and member requests to us. If you are interested in ObesityHelp featuring you and your article, please email us at articles@obesityhelp.com for more information!

First, make sure you are logged into your Facebook and/or Twitter account.  Next, log into your ObesityHelp for Professionals account.  Now you’re ready to share your patients’ great surgical experience!

Share Patient Reviews on Facebook and Twitter

1.  Under the “Manage” tab drop down bar, click on REVIEWS

2.  On the review(s) you want to share on your social media, all you need to do is click on the Facebook and Twitter share icons.

That’s all you need to do!

Optional – If you’d like to add a comment, you can.  Make your comment in the “Say something more about this” area and close.  Your comment along with a link to the review will be posted on your Facebook and/or Twitter accounts.

For any questions or assistance you’d like: Call us at 1-866-957-4636, option 1

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I know you’re asking yourself right now, “Why did I do this to myself?”
So let me remind you of just some of the reasons you decided to have weight-loss surgery:

1. You were diagnosed with diabetes last fall, remember? You panicked, knowing how hard your son struggles with his diabetes, knowing how his future is questionable because of it, knowing you want to be there for whatever he faces.
2. The blood pressure that for years was “borderline high” now requires medication, and the combination of obesity, hypertension, and diabetes is a killer cocktail you don’t want to die from.
3. You haven’t liked a single picture taken of you for over a decade. You’ve missed many photo ops with your children that you can never get back, and it’s not too late to take some great pictures with them that will make you cry with happiness, not disgust.
4. You can’t tie your shoes without sitting on the bed. Or cut your toenails. Or paint them. Or put lotion on your feet.
5. You panic when you see a restaurant booth. A plastic chair. Stairs. A hill. A turnstile. A tight bathroom stall. A wooden sidewalk.
6. You look longingly at, and then pass up, the porch swing, the roller coaster, the saddled horse, the ski hill, the bicycle, the trampoline, the old wooden chair, the merry-go-round, the lap.
7. You wake up with a backache every day.
8. Your feet hurt anytime you stand or walk for more than 15 minutes.
9. Your thighs are getting thighs.
10. During fire season, you work as a timekeeper because it’s the only job that doesn’t require physical fitness, and what you really want to do is be an Information Officer.
11. You’ve always wanted to become an EMT.
12. You know there’s a thousand more reasons not listed here, and there’s only one reason not to have the surgery…you like food. Big deal, get over it!

Letter by BigGirlsDoCry AKA Veronica, originally appeared in ObesityHelp magazine Jan/Feb 2010.