I'm currently on government health care and looking forward to find a doctor who would accept medical for the procedure. i'm located in california somewhere in the central valley. any who, I'd been looking but have got no luck at all. so if anyone knows any doc please let me know or any program that would help me. i'm 5'5 290 lbs mostly on my arms, thighs, and belly; lol i guess thats my whole entire body. i was wondering if i could get it done with my weight because my primary doctor says she wouldn't recommend me because she feels like thats the easy way out. But i told her it's a tool and not the easy way out because i would have to work hard and eat healthy for it to really work. I told my doc if i eat the same and not watch what i do i would end up the same as before like being obese. but she told me to try and eat nothing but protein, fiber and exercise then i could easily loose weight. i tried everything from diet pills, exercising, starving, diet books, etc for more than a month on each and none of it really help. i'm very active always walking, playing with my kids, eating somewhat healthy but both of my parents are obese with diabetes. this year i started to notice i could hardly breath, walk, run or do anything without being tired. I'm thinking my weight is affecting me big time. I notice every of my holiday picture for every year, i'm getting bigger and bigger and bigger. i 've known about VSG for a long time but i didn't want to get it done to me because i thought it was an easy way out but one of my sister got hers done and i notice it's not as easy as you think. you suffer and work way way much more harder. I don't care what anyone thinks about getting VSG done because i know it's not easy and it's totally not the easy way out.