I had my appointment with Shirley from the Aetna Insurance company, she asking me every question in the book, and scolded me for not taking my medications like I should!  I like her though, and she gave me everything I could possibly want to know about what I have to be doing.  The first step is to start writing down everything that I’m eating everyday, not easy for me! I have a doctor appointment on January 16^th at 3:30 and I will have my doctor fill out the paperwork she needs and verify my weight, once she gets the paperwork, She will figure out what is 5% of my weight is and that is what I have to loose before she will do the referral to the surgeon.  She said I have six months to loose the weight, and if it takes me 2 days that’s fine, that is when she will do the referral.  I have to fax her the verified weight every 2 weeks.  So that  she can verify that I’m loosing weight.  Not to hard. I’m really excited, I thought I had to weight six months before I even met with the surgeon. Woo hoo.