Time.. How long from the time you thought about surgery till the day you actually had surgery ?

10ish years but when I finally made my mind up and made that first phone call it was about 5 weeks.

It was 7 months from my informational seminar to my surgery and about a year and a half from when I made my decision to do it and actually doing having surgery. It took me about a bit to get the nerve up to actually figure out what I needed to do to start.

I attended my first informational session in late September or early October of 2012 and had my surgery in late February of 2013.

...but you know, now that I'm thinking of your question in terms of when I started thinking about wls, gosh, that had probably been at least a year, maybe longer, before I pulled the trigger on going to the information session.

8 months for me!

I am in Ontario which cover WLS, but can cause some serious delays because of the demand.

I got my referral to the clinic in September 2014, Orientation class on March 1st 2015 and surgery exactly 2 years to the day on March 1st of this year.

The wait was a little ridiculous and I feel like I wasted an entire year of my life just waiting, but it was worth it in the end.

3 weeks until I had it booked (I'm a revision though). I had to wait 6 months for my surgery date though because they had a fire at the clinic and were rebuilding the OR. :(.

End of March 2016, my new PCP suggested I was a good candidate and told me her personal bariatric surgery success story. April 2016 went to informational meeting (required by my surgical group.) May 11, 2016 first meeting with surgeon/RD/NP. Surgery 8/23/2016. My insurance did not require 3 months, but it was a requirement of my group and with all the other testing, etc., the timing worked out well.

10 years, maybe? But from the time I started the first steps in the actual process to the day I had surgery, it was close to a year.