AhnaLucille

Congratulations on your date! ...21st for myself... best of luck to you on this journey.

@@Ohcali9765 @@CapeMom3 YAY! same day as me.. I was feeling like the only one on the 21st! Congrats on your date. I hope everything goes well for you Ladies. 35 days to go! and 21 days to pre op. Are you pre op days on the 7th as well?

@ how are you doing ?

Welcome Ladies!! @@Kelly1223 that's great you don't have to wait 6 months! @@Terryrobinson have you had your surgery yet?

HI! @TMG1980TMG how far along are you in the process? Do you have a surgery date yet?

My "approval" took 4-5 days.. but it took 29 days to hear back from my surgeons office and I still have another 40 days to wait for surgery.. Hopefully yours will all work out for you in June.. Good Luck!

2-17-15 the BP COORD called. My surgery date is April 21st. And my pre op appoint is April 7th. My medical clearance appoint with my PCP is March 12th.

@mis4may I too have a BMI of 41 & no co's and my approval took a little over a week... Congrats on your date!! You are a day before me..

42 days to go! Today Is my first day of a modified version of my pre op diet and its going pretty well. Not particularly hungry. I have to remind myself to drink my Protein shakes. For that feeling of food in my stomach, I ate a big salad like the one required in my pre op diet. I'm going to try this for a week and push for 2 weeks. My weight has stalled, hoping this will get the scale moving again. I have an appointment coming up with my PCP, I still weigh the same and I don't want it to looked like a gave up, because I haven't. I'm still eating right and trying to lose weight.

@@AliciaM Congrats on your success and a healthier you!

On 2-17-15 I got my surgery date. I guess Dr. Kam isn't doing any gastric surgeries in March.. So first available date 4-21-15. I figured with everything done in January, I'd have the surgery in February.. March the latest... It was an up and down roller-coaster phone call. I did get re-excited when she said "April 1st" then was like "oh wait, nope" then back to sad face. lol .. It stings a little when you see ppl posting on the fb page how they just got their date for March, and you got your over 2 weeks ago. and way farther out. My emotions are all over the place. I'm bummed to wait so long, Happy I'm having it, also grateful I have time to get all my ducks in a row. so, its a constant circle of blue and happy.... But I am ready to have it done with. I'm ready to move on to the next phase. See how I handle post op day 1... I really can't to be at the "before and after" Phase. ..But now I am in the waiting phase.. And right now I am at my day 48 before surgery countdown. I would like to hear how everyone is doing. Anyone want to share?

Good luck to everyone!... scheduled 4/21 .

Thinkingthinner1109 You met goal in 5 months! Great job! Thanks for the photos, and you are an inspiration.

Congrats on your date!

@slenderman I hope you get to go home today. it sounds like you are doing well.

@@fit4life123 thanks for the info. that was really helpful!

I haven't had surgery yet. but I'm curious myself to see people responses to your post. I thought I'd have surgery in early March giving me more time to adjust and heal for a concert I'm going to at the end of may. So, I will be 5 weeks out and kind of in the same place as you. my CW 224 and 5'1. I keep looking at 5 week out post to get an idea. But I still hope ppl reply to your post, instead of tell you to search it... which is annoying sometimes.

I'm pretty scared about all the pain everyone is talking about.. I hope I don't act like a big baby and I get up and walk as much as I can.

Congrats on your date, how exciting!. best success to you

@@ambieambs Congrats on getting your date 4/1! I got my date yesterday for April 21st.. It's taken me a moment to get happy about it.. It so far away and I've been waiting since January. Good Luck to you. Hope it all runs smoothly. @@1jkelly Congrats on your date as well! Best of luck to you.

Happy to move on to the next step.....Finally received my date..Pre-op April 7th.. surgery date April 21st.

Congrats! Glad you are doing good.

Congrats on wining your appeal!!

@@soon2besleeved that is awesome! Congratulations! wishing you the best success!

@@Katcloudshepherd I was once a U-per, but now I am a troll. hahahaha