New here, and just got approved!

Hi, My name is Amy (I'm 19). I've been working at getting approval from my insurance company for over a year and just last Friday I got the letter! I am approved (roux-en-y laproscopic)! So now I am approved and Barix Clinic in Belvidere, IL is supposed to be calling me any day now to schedule (they've called already but I wasn't around, and I called back but the scheduling woman was busy, well you get it) and I am sitting here about ready to explode I am so excited/anxious! So I'm wondering if there is anything I should be doing, anything anyone else did, to get ready for such a life change. So far the advice I've gotten is write a "Farewell Food" journal, kind of bidding farewell to favorite foods that I'm not going to be able to have anymore, but I was wondering what other people have done. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Amy

Hi Amy, Congratulations on getting approved. Im scheduled for my LAP RNY on nov. 14. My mother had the surgery also in feb. of 2004. Now that she is 20 months out she is able to eat some of her favorite foods again, just not very much of it. My doctor is requiring that i go through a 2 week high protien, low fat diet to shrink my liver. I started it yesterday and am already missing some of my favorite foods, but I know it will all be worth it in the end. My mother said that right after the surgery im not gonna have much of an appetite anyway. Good luck with your surgery and let me know when you get a date.