So today I had my mandatory Psych Evaluation. Total waste of my time, but had to do it for insurance reasons. Fine. They should at least hire someone who knows what they are talkign about.

This guy was trying to find the reasons why I am heavy. "There has too be something behind your eating" he says to me. Ummmm, yeah, I love food. Duh. I am not an emotional eater, i dont eat when I am bored, i don't have stress in my life to speak of..... I love to eat and when I do, i eat the wrong things and too much of them. End of story. I love food.

Now, through this awesome website and reading different blogs, i have a complete understanding that things must and will change in my eating habits and I am starting now on these changes. The cabinets and refrigerator are cleaned out. I have started the Atkins diet (very strictly) to lose the weight before surgery. I have even started working out again. I tell this knowledgable Psychologist all this and he still wants to get behind why I am obese.

Then...at the end of the appointment, he wants me to pay him my co-pay. He says he will accept cash or check made out to himself. HA!! I laughed and told him to look for the check in the mail. Unbelievable!

God that is funny, I was a cash pay so we did not have to do much this way, but it the initial consultation with the PA they asked me the same question. I was really amazed...Food tastes good, I like it, I had the money to pay for it...simple story. Like you, I am making changes, but that does not mean I had mommy our daddy issues

the Psych exam is a joke

Girl... I no what you are talking about.. When I had mine he thought I was crazy. He was asking me question like why do I like food. "Because its good." At one point I had him laughing and he had to leave the room...

my psych was a normal one, I guess. He asked me questions about depression, support from my family in this decision,and asked me to explain to him how the band worked. Real easy!