Cool!  There are gradually getting to be more of us!  There have to be more on this forum who just haven't found this forum.  I think the main difference in the support part of it is the diet in the beginning.  Dr. Bauman calls it the banded RNY, just refers to the Fobi pouch in the video.  I had read a lot online so I was familiar with what he was talking about when he explained it to me.  I'm surprised more people don't take advantage of this procedure!  I think the band is great! Right now, I am at 401, down 56 lbs. from pre-surgery highest and 46 from surgery weight!  I'm totally psyched!  I can actually see it in my face and feel it in my clothes.  It's awesome!  So, how are you all doing?  Those that are pre-op, have you made any more progress?  I'm not on OH much, but this really is a great source of support! 

I don't feel or see it yet, but I know it is only a matter of time.  My weight at my first consult with Dr. B on September 14 was 457.  They consider my surgery weight 447, but that's actually what I weighed a week before surgery, November 27.  They don't actually weigh you the morning before surgery, so if you have a scale you might want to weigh yourself.  At my one week follow-up appointment on December 18, I was 427 so I was officially down 20 lbs.  That night, I tested my weight on the scale that I will be weighing on and it was within a couplea ounces of what I weighed at Dr. B's.  I weighed myself on Friday and I was at 421, so down another 6 lbs. in four days!  I'm down 26 lbs. from surgery and 36 lbs. from highest ever weight!  Good luck to you!  Hope things start moving quickly for ya in January!

I had the banded RNY, or the Fobi pouch procedure.  My surgery was Monday, December 11, 2006.  I don't come here often, but I'm going to start!  I wish there were more Fobi people here because there aren't many of us around on other boards.  My eating rules now are different than people with the regular RNY.  I liquids weeks 1 and 2 and have to do pureeds weeks 3 through 6.  I transition to pureeds on Christmas Day!  Anyway, if you have any questions, I'll try to answer!  Good luck to ya!