Melissa McCreery, PhD. is a psychologist, life coach, and writer who is passionate about helping people find effective solutions to weight loss struggles and make peace with food. She has specialized in working with weight loss, obesity, eating and body issues of all types since 1995 and has specific experience helping bariatric surgery patients optimize their success with weight loss. She is the author of The Emotional Eating Toolbox™ 28-Day Self-guided Program, the creator of the Weight Loss Winner’s Circle™ program, and the publisher of the online newsletter, Mindspa: Tips for living the life your highest quality life. I received my doctorate from Michigan State University and my coach training from Mentor Coach, an ICF accredited Coach training program. I am a member of the American Psychological Association and the International Coach Federation.

WLS lifestyles magazine contributing writer/columifenist, Maureen Boyd takes living life passionately to a new level. Experience a post-op world full of new found senses, healing reflections, a healthy lifestyle and the chance at Living Normal.

The author of Dying to Change: My Really Heavy Life Story, How Weight Loss Surgery Gave Me Hope for Living, and Small Bites: Daily Inspirations for Weight Loss Surgery Patients, Katie Jay, MSW, Certified Wellness Coach, is a nationally recognized expert on weight loss and weight loss surgery. She is the founder and director of the National Association for Weight Loss Surgery (www.nawls.com)

Jacqueline Jacques, ND is a licensed Naturopathic Doctor (ND) with ten years of experience. The focus of her work has been in women's health, obesity and pain, but she has treated all conditions. She currently sees private patients, consults in the natural products industry, owns part of a medical nutrition company, writes for several publications, and speaks across North America. She additionaly serves on the medical advisory board of several companies and non-profit organizations.

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The mission of The FitWit Foundation, a newly formed nonprofit organization in
Georgia, is to combat childhood obesity and education inequality, and foster personal
growth in young people through fitness, tutoring, and summer camp programs.

Dr. Ian Smith is currently the medical/diet expert on VH1’s highly-rated “Celebrity Fit Club,” host of “Meet the Faith” on BET, and the creator and founder of The 50 Million Pound Challenge.
Dr. Smith is also the author of five books, the #1 New York Times Bestseller Extreme Fat Smash Diet, the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Fat Smash Diet, the critically acclaimed The Blackbird Papers (2005 BCALA fiction Honor Book Award winner), Dr. Ian Smith's Guide to Medical Websites, and The Take-Control Diet. He is currently at work on his second novel.

Dr. Sashidhar Ganta underwent extensive surgical training in India, England, Scotland, Ireland and United States. He was awarded “Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons of England” and “Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland”. He then moved to New York and completed his Surgery Residency Training at New York Medical College. And Chef Leslie!

Sarah helps people love their bodies no matter how they look. She leads workshops internationally and works one-on-one in consulting sessions to assist people in overcoming hatred and dissatisfaction with their bodies using holistic healing and spiritual principles. She's a certified meditation teacher, Yoga instructor, and Ayurvedic Lifestyle Counselor.

Dr. Kuhn practices Bariatric Surgery, Critical Care Surgery, and General Surgery at Baylor in Dallas, Texas. The doctor uses the ON-Q PainBuster System which is clinically proven to reduce patient need for narcotics. As a result, patients can avoid or reduce narcotic side-effects which may include nausea, vomiting, constipation and respiratory depression. Weight Loss procedures: Laparoscopic gastric bypass, Open gastric bypass and Gastric Banding. And Chef Leslie!