Michellemo

26 bucks an hour plus your family gets Medicaid? Tell us where you live so we can all move there!

what state do you live in? Ups pays so little you qualify for Medicaid? Plus you have insurance? I should have have moved to your state before I had surgery. I'm self employed and was to heavy to qualify for insurance so I financed my surgery. Dang lucky you!

I know in missouri a family of 2 can only have a income of like 250 a month. And if you already have insurance then no you can't have Medicaid. Plus I don't mean to be nasty but if you have insurance then you need to use that. It's doesn't sound fair that the tax payers in your state should pay for you to have surgery when you have insurance. Sorry to be so blunt. I hope your husband comes around and understands why this surgery is important to you. Good luck!

You should have the surgery first. I guarantee she will also loose weight because you are going to be eating different and cooking different and that will have an affect on her. My son was not over weight before I had surgery but was a good healthy muscular 16 year old. He weighed 178. Since my surgery every time we go out to eat we share a meal and we still have food left on our plate! I cook way smaller amounts and don't keep junk food around and he has lost about 10 pounds. Now he looks even more muscular and he loves that. I'm not saying dont let her have surgery just do it first and let her see what it's all about. I was a over weight child so I know how hard it is. Good luck!

What? There are people on here that have posted that the will travel with you free to Mexico? I would never travel to Mexico with a stranger! My god that's crazy!

Yep I sure did. It gets better when you start eating more carbs

I'm 11 months out and my stomach growls when I need to eat. My head hunger is so much better I'd say 90% better.

Ok so someone tells me today that I've lost enought weight because my face looks bad! What? Why would you tell anyone this? Plus my face doesn't look bad! I told her that I liked the way my face looked! Everyone else's tells me how good I look and how much younger I look! Has anyone else had this happen?

Well all the research I did told me other wise! 2 years worth!

yes she has a weight problem. She doesn't know about my surgery. I'm just going to let it roll off my back and forget she said it!

Stop drinking!

I thought I was done loosing weight since I reached 167 and that's ok since my goal was 170 but I do want to reach 160. Anyway I thought I had hadn't lost for a long time but this morning I looked back and I've lost 16 pounds in under 2 months! So I haven't stalled at all!

Sorry to hear that. Hope you are ok!

My ibs is gone! I feel like a new woman not having constant diarrhea!

Mine was no big deal. Questions like do you eat when your sad. It was no big deal

A tums always helped me

I was off one week

Has anyone had plastic surgery in progreso Mexico?

Mine cost 11,999 at kc bariatrics

Does the excess weight percent mean what I should weigh to have normal bmi? I'm sure this is a silly thing for me to be asking. I'm not concerned with having a normal bmi I picked my goal weight because I feel for me it's a good realistic weight for me to be at. But for me to have a normal bmi I have already lost 87% of my excess weight after 10 months. I would need to weigh 145 to have lost 100% but I don't want to go below 160.

Southwest Missouri

Well I've lost 149 pounds in 10 months and I drink coffee so I don't think it's hurt anything

I never took any more pain meds the day after surgery and I went to church on day four. Went grocery shopping on day five. Everyone is different though.

My doctor never talked about a goal weight. My psych dr asked me what my goal was and I said 190. I thought at the time that sounded good because I wanted to be realistic. He said that was good because some people are unrealistic and can't ever reach the goal the set. But when I started loosing weight I knew I could change my goal to 170. I've reached that and now I'm thinking 160 but if I stay at 170 then I'm still happy!

I had bad back pain for years! But not anymore!