I finished all the test for my insurance company last week and now am waiting on everything to be submitted. I also am not good at waiting. I am the "just do it" kind of person. It was easy for me when they gave me a list and said "you need to do everything on this list so we can submit it to your insurance for approval". I was like good I'm on it! Now my part is done and I have to wait on someone else to do their part...not so good at that. Then I too am on that borderline with my insurance. My BMI is 42.5 so I meet that requirement...but no high blood pressure, sleep apnea. So I always say I am a healthy fat person. The truth is that my bones and joints are crumbling and I've had one surgery on my neck because it had crumbled and flattened my spine so I was almost paralyzed on my left side. I have problems with my feet and ankles. My hips hurt all the time, my back. I have arthritis from top to bottom. Every doctor I go to says well there isn't much we can do you need to lose weight. Soooo I have tried diets my whole life and I am the perfect example of yoyo diets. Lose 20 gain 30...lose 20 gain 40. It never works, then I go to ex streams and stop eating. The LAP-BAND® sounds like the perfect life for me. A healthy way to lose weight and live a happy life. The hard part is not the fasting before surgery it is the waiting for an approval from an insurance company! The fasting will be doable for me because I will know that at the end of that 10 days I will have my surgery! Wish me luck everyone and thanks for listening. :frown: