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Anyone been to Dr. Ponce in Georgia? What exactly happens at the initial consult?

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If you have ever been to Dr. Ponce, what happens at the initial consultation visit? Do you have to disrobe and get weighted in? Is there a physical? Is it just talking? Andy

I am 45 yrs. old woman, five foot four and weigh about 225. I am having an inititial consultation with a surgeon in Georgia who is doing a low BMI study with Lap-banding. My BMI is about 36 or so. I am pretty sure I will meet all of the criteria for the study, and hope to start my pre-op testing soon. I am so nervously excited about the whole darn thing that I can't think of anything else! Since I am a "self pay" patient, I hope everything goes well, and anticipate that it will. My friend is going down with me, and she hopes to be in the study as well. I can't wait to shed the outer layer of blub that has consumed me for the past several years. I am dying to escape this dreadful fat life and start living the life I had loved for so many years. My husband is so wonderful (he is from the tall, skinny tribe) and we used to have so much fun together before I became cursed with the blub. Sometimes, when walking by a mirror or storefront window, I catch a glimpse of something grotesquely proportioned and then realise it is me. I don't feel anything on the inside, like I look on the outside. Sometimes, I forget what people are actually seeing, and I feel like they can see the inside me....but they can't :think I am so looking forward to dancing the night away, passionate love-making, fashion that doesn't contain anything stretchy, and being able to run.) I have heard differnt notions of what diet after surgery is like. ANy feedback on that would be appreciated. Andrea