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Wow this is all just starting for me and I am getting so anxious to even get things moving... I will be turning in my information/regestration packet tommorrow to the surgeon's office hoping for a meeting with him within the next few weeks... I have to be part of a weightloss program for 6 months so off to weight watchers for me... seems to be the one thing I can afford right now... I have been in it before and it does help... I try to follow it even though not attending meetings right now... but guess I will be attending again..  once i get the regestration packet turned in I will be able to attend a seminar full of much needed information...

I have made lots of new friends here this week who has taken the time to answer my questions.... and I have enjoyed really checking out this site... I have a new found sense of hope and can't wait to move forward.. for once in many years I can dream and start to get a taste that they will become a reality!

Thanks again to all my new friends!

I thought that monday's meeting was an informational meeting about WLS but it ended up being a meeting about a weight loss program offered and it was meal replacement.  So I sat through this meeting none the more wiser about WLS so I called the office again and they are sending me an informational package and I will go from there.  I don't know where the confusion came in... I thought about trying the program and it may be successfull but I have tried plans like this and they haven't worked... My dr. feels  I need something that will help me lose the weight quicker thus comes in WLS.  I wanted to search this site last night for more information but when I came home I found that my dtr had been knocked over by a loose dog and she hit her head and passed out for a couple of minutes so off to the ER we went and I just haven't been able to get around on here as much as I want.  I welcome all advice anyone is willing to give me... at this point I am only getting positive feedback about other people's surgery and that is wonderful it is great to see that so many people are doing great.  I want to hear the bad stuff too though.  I know it won't change my mind so I am not afraid to hear it I would just like to get as much info as possible.  well I gotta get to work... hopefully tonight I will be able to look around on here more and get more information.  Maybe my informational packet will come in the mail today. 

I have no idea where to start really.  I have an appointment with the weight management program monday and will find out more about the program.  I just got a new job that does cover WLS and I am excited to get as much information about it as I can.  My dr's have been telling me for years to get the surgery but I have resisted.. when I finally decided to do it my husband changed jobs and the new insurance had an exclusion clause and would not cover it.  I heard that I could still fight it but It wasn't until I got this new job and have to walk alot that I realized this is the only way to go.  I love my job and don't want to lose it because I can't get around well.  It is hard on my knees and hard on me but I am trying to hang in there.  I refuse to let this get me.  I am 164 pounds overweight and I have carried this weight for too long.  My dr. wants me to do bypass instead of lap band because if I lose some with the lap band but am still in too much pain to do the strenous exercises then he is afraid I won't lose enough then I wouldn't weigh enough to qualify for the gastric bypass.  I was against it but now am looking forward to it.  I still have reservations... I know someone who had a bad experience with the surgery but she didn't take her vitamins and follow recommendations.  now she is having a hard time staying above 100 pounds.  does any of you have this problem?  I would love any advice anyone would have to offer.  I will post an official weight when I go to the meeting Monday.