FINALLY!

Alright I'm on my way! I finally have some doctor's appointments set up to get going on my lap band! Actually, I don't believe I've made the official announcement. Well, here it is...I AM GETTING LAP BAND! I have spent a lot of time and effort researching this and have decided this is my best option. It's been mentioned that SOME OF YOU don't feel that I've made a real effort to loose weight on my own. Well I'd like to thank you for your opinion and evaluation of my efforts, however from this point forward, please keep that to yourselves. Until you know the exact amount of hours I've spent sweating to death on my elliptical, and how many calories I've counted, how many weeks of NOTHING but vegetables I've eaten, how many different dosages of meds I've been on that are supposed to help me but didn't, then don't judge me. I'd rather go through this surgery that is a SURE THING, and get healthy NOW, than wait around another few years, gaining more and more weight and then finally dying from a heart attack because I had to prove that I'd tried hard enough on my own first. No thank you.

Moving on. I have my first set of appointments coming up this month!

*On Thursday the 23rd I have a weight loss seminar in Phoenix. This (among many other things)is required by the insurance company in order to be approved for the procedure.
*On the 24th I have an appointment with my new primary care physician, Dr. Flyte in Casa Grande for my referral to the surgeon.
*On the 29th I have my first consultation with the surgeon!

I'll still need my psych. evaluation to make sure I'm sane enough to know the full implications of the surgery and that I'm not doing it for the wrong reasons. Of course all of this is really dependant on the insurance company approving the pre-operative appointments. Which of course they will :)

So I will keep everyone posted on how everything goes once it's been done!