CollegeJoe

Hey, everyone this will be my last post. I've been researching more and generally found out that the doctor wants me to go on gastric bypass. I was trying to fight for lapband but it seems aetna will cover gastric more, so im going to look into that more. I wanted to say all of you were hilarious and a great forum people. I'll miss ya'll. Maybe months later i'll post pics of before and after :-P. Thanks to everyone's advice and hope everything turns alright for everyone's healthier future!

Last week and im busting my arse and im so stressed n tired but my work is coming along GREAT! Today, I get to go to the Doctor who has to Ok the surgery first and may put me on a diet so it can be recently recorded and given to insurance, uber excited, TTYL!

People its psychological. Its one thing to be without band and know u can have anything while being banded puts a restriction and a psychologically aura that u crave things u never ate before... dont worry about it... ur not missing out... i try to stop drinking soda and once a week i cheat and it never tastes THAT good, meh.

congrats!!!

omg good luck! i have aetna too and will be going to the doctors for them to Ok the operation and then the insurance but it should cover it! can't wait till those days ttyl!

haha my friend was saying what's next playgirl? Why not ? hehe

haha ur the 2nd person to say i have balls, haha i do don't i? hehe

Hey i just got home, so the photo shoot went really well. it was done by a guy named Sandro,,,please check his work www.sandrofilm.com he does REALLY great photos too, so basically he introduced me to a couple of people and was really really nice. So he told me to go in and change, cause i brought a robe and as i was getting undressed omg i did feel a little nervous but more excitement than anything. So he comes back and tells me to take the robe off and to stand on this one stand where his assistant was nearby but he wasnt watching me hehe. So then he took a couple of pics to get a lighting feel, and then began the 7 min photo shoot. As i was standing there i was looking around the huge studio, and im like omg what the F$*# am i doing here? hehe but really i was just excited, so then it was over, got dressed and we had talked. I do voices and showed it to them and he was laughing, and one of his assitants gave me a number to model managment that also does voice work, so i will call them. I filled out a questionnaire and he told me about another project he would want me to be in which i will be in too, today was a learning experience and a OMG really did that?! haha he will send pics and it will also be in a book. The photo will have me and my answers to what i wrote about my body, and it will be displayed near or around my body in the picture but my face will be blurred so no worries. He told me i was really good and that i was the first man to do this, Reference to like bigger men but i was excited, cause he siad other men were more sensitive about their body than women, i had done this around 9 30 am this morning, I feel good and my mom and family were all surprised and happy for me hehe What a thing to put on a resume, eh?

im doing a photo shoot today for a photographer on morbidly obesity, yes im going nude, and NO i have never done this before although i drew naked people, its for a museum/exhibit piece and our photos will have displayed a couple of lines that we put on a questionairre about how we feel about our bodies... My body is temporary like all things in life...not really nervous just excited...Plus, once i get the band i want this to be a reminder that even though I may have been bigger i should have respect and love myself regardless...ok...leaving now...ttyl!

U will be ok, cause i believe it, My prayer will be answered...

thx for ur responses...this will help me as i get closer to being a bandster!

HI ya'll, sorry about not being on too much. June 17 is the end of everything for my quarter at school and got upteen projects to finish up before then, like 1000 frame animation for finals, 5 part project for my character Pogo, the blue kanagaroo, lol anyway my mom emailed aetna and told her that they would have to check with the doctor to see if it's good for me?! HEHE im soo excited, im confident Aiden will find this surgery healthy for me, although she likes to stress exercise, i walk a lot but my eating habits suck, i dont drink coke, but only once in a while, but i tend to overeat anything, hell i'll overeat a salad, but my find has been fixed with this so, im not always eating junk food, but then again we're in America, what do you expect? So I will see if i can print out as much information as possible, and try to compare, gastric to lapband, and talk about all the pros and cons about it. But at least aetna didnt say flat out that they couldnt cover, they just said to see with the doctor if its good for me, I mean come on, if smaller people can get it why can't I? I just want a little help with this... How would you convince the My doctor that it would be right for me, and a better alternative. I once knew a friend that had gastric bypass but she wasn't that fat looking before, but whatever, Thx in advance for the help, i won't be home until after 8 or 9 ... got class late...ttyl!

yeh ive cut soda from my eating habits and only maybe once in a while do i have one. I had white castle yesterday...ugh...i won't miss it :-P