I had my first offcial appointment with my doctor last week.  I weighed in at 330 lbs so that will be my start point.  I will need to lose at least 16.5 pounds in the next 6 months.  I think that is very realistic though.  I go see my dietician next tuesday and then I will be seeing her twice a month.  I have to follow all these rules to the T so that I can ensure my approval for the surgery.  I have been keeping a food and exersize journal for the last few weeks to try to prepare for this but I wan't being picky about writing serving sizes.  I really need to kick it up a notch and be more diligent.  I also need to find a way to get out of my sweet cravings.  Any suggestions?  

...but I didn't realize it.  I have gone through a bunch of ups and downs and ins and outs since my last post.  I found out that I was not approved for the 6 month program back in December but that I was approved for an appointment with the dietician.  After many returned forms that were submitted andf resubmitted (after being done correctly) by my doctors office I have finally found out that I am officially approved!  What a mess.  So I guess that will put me at having the surgery sometime in the fall.  That is if there insn't some other snags that I can't forsee.  This has been such a long, gruelling process.  I have been a surgery hopeful for so long now so its hard to get my hopes up but I am trying to stay positive.