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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.

They need to stay consistant with their info.

Cool I hope you get your call soon. Yes I am, where do you work?

[quote I guess we are a persisten bunch!! By time most of us get to orientation we have already made up our minds and done the research. I thiough about it for six months before I even went to orientation and by the time I did I had done the research and made up my mind this was the way to go. But I do think alot of people at the orientation where still undecided and rather clueless!! I agree about the clueless and undecided folks. These are the people who hold up the appointment spots, they probably get called first lol, while we sit and get restless. That's too bad for us.

SWRKTP, When was your orientation? My understanding is that they are calling appointments for the people who were in orientation during the holidays. So if you are in that batch then you may be getting a call soon.

Thanks Christine and Nicole! I had Dr.Park was the surgeon and Liz was the case manager as well as Robin the nutritionist. A couple of people left the orientation before it was over. I was surprised!

Christine: Thanks for accepting the FB invite. I didn't want to talk about the surgery on the wall, when needed I will write you through your "FB inbox". LOL, no no need for Sac Richmond Team. Thanks to all of you for meeting, I had a wonderful time.Nicole, Audrey is so cute!!! We should this this more often. I went to my orientation today. I left the house at 4:30 am, needless to say I am sleep deprived. The orientation went well, oh my some of the questions that people asked baffled me, especially when we all know we there to find a tool to help us in our quest to lose weight :thumbup:. After hearing all the information about both RNY and LB, I am fully convinced that I want to do the LB. I don't mind gradual weightloss. They told us that they'd be calling to give us our next appointment. Well I tried calling them after we left but no luck. I'm going to pester them until I get an appointment. So I will be starting the my diet tomorrow. :thumbup:. I am excited!!!

Hi All, I can't wait till lunch. How are we going to identify ourselves? Should we use "Sac Richmond Team"? Any ideas? I'll see you all at 1p.m.:wink_smile:

Thanks Christine!

Thanks I will set off early. How was parking there? I can't wait to meet you all as well.

[ I have lost some weight even with my half hearted christmas break diet..........today everyone went home and I am getting serious. Just shocked that I still lost just by limiting carbs and haven't totally cut them out yet!! Would love to get this moving............... Congrats on the weightloss during this difficult season. Now put your game face on and we'll be right along with you!:tongue2:

I plan on starting, did you pretty much stick to the diet and how long did it take for you to lose your 10%??

Thanks for the advice, I plan on leaving Sacramento at about 5:30a.m. I am serious too LOL :-)They won't be sending me home! I hope their scheduler will be back next week!

:thumbup:Congratualtions Nicole!!! Thanks for the info about your visit this helps those of us in the beginning stage. I have my orientation on Tuesday and hope to get a follow up shortly after next week. I would like to have the surgery by March if its possible. It will be very exciting to go through this together.

1p.m. sounds great, it wil be nice to meet everybody. Nicole did you call to fnd out if kids are allowed to your appointment?

Monday is fine with me so long as it is after 11:30. Chilli's sounds good to me .

Lets set a date? Any day is fine with me.

I'm not sure but you can ask the clinic if you can bring your baby.

I think Arden area will be great and also a midpoint for us. We can do Fresh Choice (i know it has some bad choices) however this way we can have better control or we can meet at any restaurant and order salads. How does this sound?