I've been reading all of your posts over the past month or so. What a Godsend this place is---to read others experiences. Great support group here!! Please let me introduce myself. I'm from RI and am on my last leg of appts. I have just one more visit with the dietician before I can get insurance approval. Then I will be able to get another appt with the surgeon and then a surgery date. Can't wait to get the show on the road!!! I've been thinking of and contemplating gastric bypass surgery for a few years and only this year, 2013, did I decide to go for it.