Littleamberofky

All of these replies are making me feel better. Thanks everyone. Another thing I worry about is how i am going to handle not eating much but still make full meals for my husband. Should I just for example take a whole chicken breast and divide it into 3 pieces and use it for 3 meals for myself and just keep making him a normal portion?

I am at NAS fallon (navy). I haven't sent in my papers yet, I still have to do the nutritional evaluation but I lost it when they tried to tell me I needed to go back on weight watchers so they could document it. I called tricare and the guy said that it doesn't say specifically a time frame to do it. I printed the policy, had Weight watchers send me a copy from where I did it 3 months in the past on my own with little progress and my doctor wrote it in my medical records so it's documented. Like I said, I haven't been approved yet but I don't see any reason why I won't be because I have tried and it isn't my fault that my doctors suck and wouldn't help me after I expressed my desire to lose weight. Since they wouldn't help I did it on my own and that should be enough to get me past the attempts to lose weight prior to requesting surgery. The surgeon that would be doing my surgery requires you to lose a percent of your body weight before surgery as well just to further prove you are serious about this. You should also be sure to tell them about any gym memberships you have had, if you did slim fast or just a general low calorie diet or something no as marketed as weight watchers or jenny craig. Everything you've ever done to lose weight should be mentioned to your doctor.

I am starting to get close to getting surgery. I have my nutritional evaluation and then approval from my insurance and I will be ready to go. The problem is I am not thinking about this correctly. I need to be losing 14 lbs before my surgery but all I keep thinking about is how some foods I may never be able to eat again, pizza for example. Since I keep thinking about how i may never get pizza or sushi or whatever I just keep eating it. Did anyone else have this problem? I am a military wife so we move a lot. When I go back home I tend to eat a lot of food that I can't get where we live now. Things like white castle and waffle house, things that are pretty unhealthy. I just reasoned with myself that I would eat it while I was home because I wouldn't be able to eat it again for at least a year. I may be going back home this summer and I hope to have my band by then and I am afraid I won't be able to handle the temptations. It doesn't help that my 100lb (literally) sister can eat whatever she wants and she stays tiny. She tend to encourage the fast food eating. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks.