Wow, I think, I am getting closer to realizing the dream of having a lapband! I began exploring this process a year ago, and when I found out that I would have to go through a 6 month medically supervised weight loss program, I sort of fizzled out...for about 6 months. Finally, when I should have been completing my 6 month program, I began it, and now...

yes, now, 20 lbs lighter, but still morbidly obese, I am wrapping up month 5 and have made the next required step with my program ( NYU) I've scheduled the required appt with the psychologist! Woo hoo. This appointment won't be until 9/5, but it is on the calendar and will be here before you know it!

After the phychologist, then I am required to meet for a $325 nutrional assement, and finally after that, it will be time to make an appointment with the surgeon! Hoping upon all hopes that surgery will take place by Thanksgiving.

I so want to start 2009 on my way to being healthy..

Is there anyone else out there at about this point? Is there anyone else out there planning on surgery at NYU this fall?

Let me know!

I am excited and ready for this wonderful opportunity to get healthy and hopefully thin!

I am about where you are, my nutritionist appointment is for next week. I am also seeing a therapist for anxiety and don't know if she is going to just see me again and make a recommendation that I continue with the process, or keep seeing her and then reccomend I proceed. She did ask me before I left if I was just thinking about having lap band or had made up my mind and I told her I certainly have made up my mind. I have been seeing a dietitian on my own for a couple of years and wasn't required to do one for insurance but I think it helped me move things along. The waiting around is horrible, but I really believe that the longer it takes, the better the success rate. Some of the people who have just zipped right through didn't have time to do any reading, or to really look into the changes you have to make and then they are overwhelmed when it happens.

Best wishes to you, let us know how it goes!