I'm here for anyone who needs a buddy. I am in Bradenton FL, but I am willing to go thru this all w/ anyone. It would be nice to encourage each other.

Glad to see you received your band:biggrin: I am in the dreaded appeals process, and truthfully a little down. If you are looking for a buddy..Id be delighted.

Good luck w/ the appeals process, it took me 3 appeals to get approved so dont give up!! Ins companies hope if they deny you that you will just give up & go away. Try sending them pics of yourself w/ a personal appeal letter. Let them know you are more than just a policy number. I can also send you copies of my appeal letters if you need them. Are you in west FL? What Dr are you going to? Let me know if I can do anything to help you in any way. Keep positive & be persistant, it will all work out in the end.

Thanks for the appeals advice..Im going for it!! Back to the d for more documentation! I am in Illinois

good luck & keep me posted! let me know if i can help you in any way

Lynn,

I am an APRIL AVENGER too. I was banded April 8 and live in Fort Lauderdale, but I will be relocating to St. Pete for a year on July 2. I"m an insurance adjuster and my office is centralizing in St. Pete. I have one more year until I have 20 years with my company, so I am going to be doing the long distance marriage thing for a year. Otherwise, I will lose my job and lots of benefits that come with leaving my company before 20 years.

Things are stressful with this move coming up and it makes it hard to stick to my food program sometimes. I also was doing great exercising until the last two weeks. As a result, I only lost 1 lb this week. I know I can do better. I had my first fill on May 19, but I don't really have any restriction yet. A couple of times I've had an uncomfortable feeling, but it goes away and I didn't really get any sign to stop before I did.

Your numbers are great! Keep up the good work. I'll talk to you soon.

Alice

271/247/150

I am only about 25 mins from StPete so we will have to get together while u are here!! Hope to get to meet u!

oh! I fell so bad I was banded on 4/10/08 I have only lost about 30

I need HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think because I have not had any problems and can eat almost anything. I need to make better food choices.Please help anyone I have had 2 fills one 5-19-08 another on 6-30-08 and an appt. 2-morrow.