Hi, All!
I was originally scheduled for surgery in January 2009.  Two weeks before surgery, my surgeon's office called to tell me that because my BMI hadn't been over 40 for 24 consecutive months (it dipped to 39.9 once!) my health insurance was denying the coverage.

Here I am, almost a year later, and am now able to have surgery in November!  All of my dietician meetings, workbooks, phone program for insurance, psych, etc. is completed.  I need to lose 8 more pounds to reach the goal the surgeon gave me. 

Before re-scheduling my surgery I started the "Couch Potato to 5k Running Program" and have just been repeating Week 1 over and over and over again.  It seems to be helping, my legs are finally getting a little bit of strength in them and I'm beginning to - dare I say - enjoy it a little!

I've also been doing the myfooddiary (dot) com so keeping my calorie intake down.

I just wanted to introduce myself and get up to speed on others who are having surgery in November - looking forward to meeting you!

~Kristi~