I met my bariatric surgeon in mid July and just this month had my psych eval, sleep study and first diet/nutrition consult. I have 5 more months to go before I can get approved for surgery. I have been trying to adapt new behaviors in prep for the surgery and I have gone down a little though that isn't the goal for me at this point. I'm just trying to focus on changing some of the behaviors. I have to say though the five months seems so far away. Trying to focus on one day at a time. I find that journaling helps a lot. Just doing stream of consciousness writing for three pages helps clear my mind of a lot of clutter anxiety.