Lisa65

Hello to my fellow April Avengers! I barely made it to be one of you - April 29th! Whew...

I just received my approval and surgery date yesterday. I will be banded by Dr. Curry in Cincinnati, OH. I'm so excited! I've been lurking on this site for several months and I am now ready to jump on in and become another active successful bandster! Here's to all of us!

carol4784 - I see you are also having Dr. Curry in Cincinnati - maybe we can stay in touch. You are going to be 3+ weeks ahead of me, so maybe you can give me some pointers!

Lisa

I just got my date yesterday. I will be banded April 29th by Dr. Curry in Cincinnati, OH. I'm so excited to start this new phase of my life!

I have Anthem PPO in Ohio and I'm close to having the surgeon's office submit for approval. The insurance person at my surgeon's office said that Anthem is usually pretty good and they "don't require any crazy 6 month diet or anything." At least that's what she told me. Hope that helps you not to worry too much. I know plans vary greatly but her statement was pretty general. Good luck!

Alicia, I truly feel like I could have written your post. I have been considering this for a few months and got serious with my research a couple months ago. I attended a seminar in January and I had my initial consult with the surgeon this past week. I just need to get a couple things from my PCP and have my psych. eval., then they can submit to insurance for approval. I'm hoping to be banded sometime in April, that's my hope anyway. I am just SO ready to start this process, I wish I could start tomorrow. Because I really feel like this will be the exact tool I've always needed to not just lose the weight but keep it off.

BUT until I can really get it going, I've had no motivation to start one of the same old diets I've done 100 times before. And like you, I think I am stuck in the "last meal" mindset so I am gaining instead of losing! And like you, I feel guilty that I don't just do SOMETHING to get myself ready!

Maybe the two of us could become band buddies and try to motivate each other, and maybe we can at least start some of the changes Kat mentioned in her post (Thanks Kat - your posts are always full of words of wisdom!). Those will probably help us more to prepare for the band than following any of those old "before" diets anyway - to start making the changes we will need to make later when we do get our bands.

What do you say?

Lisa