Hi,
This is my first blog also. I am scheduled for surgery on Monday and I started my whole process in January of 2008. So it took me a yr. and two months. It would have been sooner, but at first I had trouble losing the weight I needed to lose on WW and then I tried Adkins and did fine and got more then the percentage I needed before surgery. All the rest of itSeminar, PMD visits, Surgeon visit and nurtitionist, psych visit, were done in a matter of like 6 mos. After I lost the weight; then I just had to do all my preop testing and physical exams and meet with the clinical nurse, and my PMD and then the NP.