Hey guys! It's Ron here.....

Ron. First of all congratulations on your being selected to speak.  I have not written much here in the past year or so.  With regards to your question.....I would definitely speak to the highs of getting on the scale and seeing the lowest number in years but also to the extreme lows where you miss a dear old friend.  That frined ios the action ofeating.  There are many times during the year when I have the dfreaded buyers remorse.  When I WANT to eat more than my pouch will allow.  I teach in a junior high and I am involved with many other organizations that involve themselves or their meetings around a pot luck or food in general.  Let them know that these are the real challenges that will face tehm.

I wish I had heard from people like me prior to surgery.  Just saying that I will have a diet and exercise plan is definitely different from putting yourself on one. To this date I still have not done so.

I wish you luck in your speach I m sure you will do all of us losers a great service.  Byt he way the inch per 215 pounds is just about right. Go ahead and mention it. Can't hurt!

As to errections, this is a question as I am waiting approval from ohip, but it sounds like you may have an answer. Not worried about getting longer as much as getting hard and keeping it , can you comment.
Thanks BB

Wait a minute - gain an inch for every 25 lbs. I am going to need a cart to carry my johnson behind me. I assume it appears to get longer due to fat loss. If not I better get some different underwear.

thank you for this statment...
at this rate I should have at least 11"

and boner and Ron be in the extended teens....

yesirrrrreeeee, bob!!! They don't be callin' me boner for nuthin'  

Dang Russ.....disregard my prior post. I re-read yours and saw the inches symbol. I was confused with an earlier post by Dave where he was using the metric system. Back to being the "average-sized boner."  

Boner

An inch for every 25 lbs. Somebody is pulling something.

Talk about you wanted to get out of the surgery. Why did you have it? Be open and honest. Talk about the penis issue sure. Definitely the relationship and the problems that come up with them.

ALso stress the importance of paying it forward

I think talking about self esteem after weight loss might be good also. How to handle compliments etc.

Finally how to deal with the anger that is going to creep up and come out. as the hormones go out of whack.

Errr, clarification needed, please, Ron ..   

   You have a rather ecstatic F fan on one of the state forums who was delighted to hear you would be speaking,    but she mentioned the L.A. event and said she HOPED you would be speaking at the Houston event (which she is attending) ..  I told her that you would be.  I assumed you were speaking at both (actually I had forgotten we have the L.A. event before Houston  )   

    So will you be speaking at the L.A. event, the Houston event, or both?      (I'd hate to shatter her dreams, or possibly my misundestanding ..   )

Hey Ron...
Lets see....maybe a little about how long the recover time in from plastics...

I have been on the plastics board and everyone thinks it's a breeze...for us, with the amount of skin we have taken off...it's do-able...but it is not a walk in the park..

and and dude...I have not had a chance to see you web site yet..but seems like you have had access to some stuff we have not...so any tips or trick on the exercise front...what worked the best for you?

  I guess he's on break, Russ ..  

  He has yet to respond to any of my posts for him, btw ..             (?)