...is the hardest part. ARGH! I hate waiting :ermm .

I know I still have some weight loss before I can schedule, and a 4 week liquid plan before I can have my surgery, but I just want to know if I got the OK! :nervous

Maybe it is the slimfast talking here, but I am so anxious.

I just needed to vent.

Thanks

Oh, I know, its awful isnt it? I have been waiting for my first consult - cant believe I cancelled TWO appointments due to nerves over a month ago and could have been well down the path by now! Its tomorrow! I'm nervous nervous nervous because I dont know if I'll be heavy enough to qualify, i'm JUST a BMI 35 and healthy as anything. Dratted good health, lol!

I'm in the mood seriously to be making some good changes to my life and my eating habits. I've learned lots from researching the band and want to put them into practice. But to be totally honesty I could not afford to lose any weight before I saw a surgeon. I didnt gain on purpose but I couldnt lose more than a couple of kgs, which I did. That's frustrating me too. Three or four entire months I could have been working away, I so dont want another fat summer! But its going to be, sigh.

Then it'll be a wait for surgery if its on the cards for me. Surely I can lose in that time? It wont matter if I've lost 6 or 7kg by the time of surgery as long as I was fat enough on my first consult right?

Waiting waiting waiting!

Surely I can lose in that time? It wont matter if I've lost 6 or 7kg by the time of surgery as long as I was fat enough on my first consult right?

Waiting waiting waiting!

Someone asked that question at the Information Evening I went to and the surgeon said that no, it wouldn't matter. He said that because most people have tried weight loss plan after weight loss plan before the surgery and always gain it back (usually with more kgs added to it), that the few you had lost pre surgery would be no different.

Just put up a new tread about getting my approval today. I was shocked! They told me it would be 2-3 wks before hearing of approval, and Oct was the earliest for surgery. Then being told today they already had a surg. date for me, but it wasn't workable because of work at the office.

I have BC/BS (CareFirst) DC/MD/VA area. So, glad they changed and started approving folks for the lapband.

I'll keep you posted and will check new posts.