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Thanks Tina! I got Dr.Park, I like her she was very informative.

LOL Christine, You have this down packed.Thanks!

Hi All I attended my psych appointment on Friday, luckily I was able to see the surgeon a couple of hours after. I was very excited. I have to lose 20 more lbs before surgery. I am really going to have to get on top of the ecercise routine. I want to achieve this goal as soon as possible. Well I wanted to update the group. Thank you all for your well wishes.

Christine, wow! you have done great. I hope to lose fast too. My goal is to have surgery by April.

Thanks Ladies!

Hi Tina, thanks for your advice. My BMI currently is 43.6 which is high. I would like to be under 40 before surgery. I also hope I can have a my surgeon appointment on Friday as well. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Nicole congratulations on your weight loss. You are doing great. We need to get together again soon. Christine seems to be doing well also that's great. I'm motivated once again to move forward. I'll let you all know how it goes.

Hi all, I just got an appointment for my psych eval. Please provide me with any thouhgts of wisdom and what I should be prepared for. My appointment is Fiday2/6 at 11:30 am. I am super excited. At least I have lost 15lbs and hope to hold on to that for Friday:eek:

Thanks Tina. Christine I think I'll take you up on the accountability team. We checked on FB and lets keep doing that. I have dusted myself off and I'm getting back on track. LOL. I hate the time of the month. I called Kelly but she was out for the week, so I left a message for her. Hopefully she'll call me on Monday as I am so done waiting :-).

christine, You go girl! It is exciting to see everyone rocking! I'm struggling right now to get back on track. I haven't lost much because I have been off plan. Does anybody struggle days before the time of the month?? I have been eating like a pig and can't seem to stop. Help yall!! :-).

Best wishes Riley! Let us know how it goes

Thanks Tina. I will call them this week. I was born in Ghana, West Africa, that's what prompted me to ask which part of Africa you were going. I hope you have a lot of fun.....

SWKRTP, Which part of Africa are you going to? That's exciting. Congratulations on getting your appointments. BTW what is your first name if I may ask?

Congrats SWRKTP. Let us know how your appointment goes. Susie, welcome to Richmond KP. It seems like you are almost there. Keep up your diet. We are a pretty cool group here! :-)

LOL Riley I hear you! It only makes sense to adapt to high protein since it appears to be the success to losing when banded.

Congratulations Swrktp on losing 8lbs. Riley, I have omitted some of the carbohydrates from the meals, i.e. breakfast I have eggwhite omlettes with bell peepers and mushrooms and low carb yougurt. I don't always eat the carn at lunch eitherm however I do eat the fruit in the afternoon. Also I found these dried applecrisps(35 calories) and no suger added at Costco, they taste great. I think most of us can all agree that carbs are our nemesis :-).

Congratulations Tera!! How much weight have you lost now and in what time span? The 1200 calorie is good but you have to tweak it a bit. I hope you get there soon :-).

Congratulations Laurel :-)!!

LOL! Yes you did and yes they were stuck on stupid with the cigarette, alcohol, caffeine and gum. And yes fried foods. :tongue2:

Laurel, you poor thing! This is no fun especially waiting for almost five months. I would definitely look into Richmond or as Christine said call and find out where your paperwork is? I wish you the best.

Hi Sheena, It was so nice to meet you last week. Thanks for all your support. I see you are almost at Surgery goal weight, congratulations!!

LOL, sometimes you have to do what's necessary. Keep up the good work.

Insideout: My orientation was fine. Lots of information , but nothing I didn't know before going in. Some of the questions were ridiculous, and obviously those people were not prepared to take these steps. We saw a video of the two LB and RNY, I was convinced at the end of the day that LB is going to be my choice of procedure. Pretty good overall! Momcof: Thanks for the insight, my fear is the hunger part and the fact that the LB doesn't curb that. I'm wondering if they can do the fill sooner. So you are allowed a snack?

Momcof3, How are you doing with your food intake? Do you really feel as full as they say?

LOL, we can all teach them a thing or two at this point. My class argued about smoking and alcohol as well. I must say it got on my last nerves. The thing is if they can't give give those few things up then this is not the program for them.lol

I work for Sacramento Assessment Center.