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Hello

I am meeting with my family doctor today to ask for a referral.  I am afraid he will say no.  I have been thinking about this for a very long time and keep putting it off thinking one day I could do this on my own - how many thousands of dollars on programs later and the highest I have ever been .... wish me luck!  I really enjoy reading all of the support on here.

Good luck :) I was afraid of mine as well, but he ended up being on board BIG time :)

Hopefully you'll be pleasantly surprised :D

Do you have to have a referral? I didn't. I'm not close to my Family doc. I'm not sick a lot and I really only ever saw him for my thyroid pills and the phentermine he gave me (which did NOT help hahaha)...

Maybe you can just contact a weight loss doctor without your doc's "permission"??

Welcome!! I never met with my PCP-- I can request referrals electronically and did that. 

Welcome and good luck!

Welcome!   I hope you get your referral soon, and good luck on your journey.   This site is amazing for info and support.

Well he didn't even bat an eye. Said he would do the referral on line today.  Now I just hurry up and wait?  Should I keep a food journal,  not sure what to do now 

From the time I got my referral, (7/14/15****il the day immediately following my 1st of 3 required Supervised Weight Loss classes (8/5/15), I ate my "normal" food.  I figured that I would do it this way because soon enough my diet would be drastically restricted.  In other words, until 8/5/15 I changed nor logged nothing.  I have never looked back or cheated.