I don't know yet about August but I'm shooting for last week but I didn't start pre surgery diet till just a week ago.. after my first visit with Dr and consultation place I started eating anything and everything because I was like hey I'm getting surgery it will come off then . Little did I know that I was putting in all this weight and I have bone on bone in knees and can't hardly walk and now I can't stand the paid just from putting on another 15 lbs it made it impossible to walk I'm in excruciating pain [emoji22][emoji22] I cannot believe I did that I never spent enough time at first reading the package since I had already made my mind up I was doing it . Omg so I finally went back to Dr and he's like you put on 20 lbs since last month and he said u need to take off at least 10 then I will do surgery so I'm doing that now but I'm really being good so I hope in end of August I will get it done I would love to talk more sorry for such a long responce . Ya know I kept saying well I'm never going to be able to eat this again so I would eat it . Like tirimisu eggs Benny . Pancakes waffles chocolate custard from Culver's omg I was a pig Culver's is bad but I'm taking it off I'm only 5,5 and I'm 280 I was 250 when I started to plan this o e year before that I was 198 my mom died and I went off pain meds and packed on the weight now they won't touch me for knee replacement till I get my bmi down and I tried but I ha e no hormones no testosterone so no metabolism so I'm getting sleeve so I can do my knees thanks for letting me vent uggg god bless from Marcy Sent from my XT1650 using BariatricPal mobile app