Hi Everyone, just joined - I have been lurking as you call it for the last couple of days. I have found your site very informative and wanted to say keep all the advice coming guys. Next month I have a busy schedule with Medical Clearance, Pulmonary and the upper GI tests scheduled - shooting for surgery end of October first of November - also doing some of the waiting game with insurance for the acceptance of 3 months of my weightloss classes (had to have 6 - Insurance is BCBS - Delaware). Glad to be here hope to chat with some of you later on. Thanks for being here!!!!

Hello:

I was lurking for sometime before becoming a member as well!! Today, I was told I should receive a call for my first appointment on Tuesday, so then I can begin my appointments. Maybe we can stay in touch and keep one another updated on our progress! Good luck to you!!!

Hi Everyone, just joined - I have been lurking as you call it for the last couple of days. I have found your site very informative and wanted to say keep all the advice coming guys. Next month I have a busy schedule with Medical Clearance, Pulmonary and the upper GI tests scheduled - shooting for surgery end of October first of November - also doing some of the waiting game with insurance for the acceptance of 3 months of my weightloss classes (had to have 6 - Insurance is BCBS - Delaware). Glad to be here hope to chat with some of you later on. Thanks for being here!!!!

Hi everyone, just joined - I have been lurking as you call it for the last couple of days. I have found your site very informative so I thought I would join. I just completed my first psychiatric eval follow up appointment in 9 days. Dietatician appointment I'm making Monday final appointment end of october with my surgeron then the auth for surgery is submitted. Glad to be here!

this has already been so good for me. I am looking for support, I want to be a longterm success story. My health is the main objective for me. I have been on meds for Cholesterol for a few years and last year I got a CPAP machine for sleep. I am grateful that these things help us but - losing weight will take care of both of them! I love seeing the weight people are losing. I started at 239 at the end of July, I now weigh 222. My doc started me on a 1200 calorie diet after the first meeting. I was supposed to lose 10 lbs. b4 the surgery. Isn't it funny how we lose when we stop eating junk!! I started going to curves in Aug. and it is so good, I am down one pant size and the pain in my legs has gone away.

I am having surgery on Oct 28th & am really excited. Thanks to all who visit this site!!!

Thank you to everyone that responded to my introduction - what a bunch of lurkers we are huh!? Welcome to you all and keep in touch. Congrats on the weight loss readytogo - I so look forward to being rid of pain I have in my legs as well - so you give me hope - no CPAP here - no comorbidies other than just found out through this process that I am pre diabetic - didn't know that one - Cholesterol and BP good. I love the junk food too - big chocolate lover, so yeah it is amazing what we can do with out it, but it's remembering that and that's where I hope this tool will help out - you know it's easier to say "oh I can do this today etc etc it won't hurt me, I will just tomorrow" but having a tool that can help you train your brain to say "it just might" that's saying something and I hoping that is exactly what it will do for me. I hear the stories of things getting stuck, people getting sick because they don't follow the band diet etc - I am not a fan of being sick or having pain so I will have that in the back of my mind when I go to venture off course like I normally would - right now other than how it can effect the future I don't have that, I guess I have too much of the "Scarlet O'Hara syndrome" - "Tomorrow is another day" Well, I want to change that syndrome and really make "Tomorrow another Day" a good day!! I think we have found the right site - seems wonderful so far. Good Luck to you all and once again Welcome and Keep in touch.

Glad to see you are going to have surgery in Oct, I had my surgery on the 7th of Sept and doing well.

Nice to see you here also, I joined yesterday.

I think having a support group could be a big winner for your success. I am still searching for that myself.

Good Luck

Karen