meganrae<3

I've started my 6 month monitored diet with my doctor. She put me on phentermine, and said it'll look good to the insurance that I'm trying one more thing. I need to lose 29 lbs in 6 months to be eligible for surgery. I'm a little over 2 weeks into my 6 month monitored diet, and as of this morning I've lost 25 lbs (holy sh*t). So my question is, can I lose too much weight to qualify for surgery? Should I keep in mind to keep my bmi around 40? This phentermine is making me shed pounds like wild fire. But I'm worried that it's working too good? Sent from my SM-N920T using the BariatricPal App

I'm on 37.5mg and it's kicking my butt. I'm trying to eat better but it's hard. Like, I'm making very healthy choices, but it's hard to eat as much as I need to because food is nauseating. Friday all I ate was a serving of salami, a serving of cheese, and a cup of watermelon, all day. When I don't eat enough I don't exercise. It's difficult, I'll meal plan my whole day, then when it comes to eating it, it makes me want to gag. The only time I even think about eating is when I start getting sharp hunger pains in my stomach. I know this isn't healthy weightloss:( Sent from my SM-N920T using the BariatricPal App

I would think you could risk not having insurance approve if you lose too much weight. They could day you can lose weight without surgery. I'm surprised your Dr prescribed Phentermine knowing that the weight loss success is temporary. The best thing you can do during this 6 months is learn how to eat post-op , deal with any emotional eating issues or bad eating habits. I would caution you in losing too much pre-surgery.Well this sure has me worried! Sent from my SM-N920T using the BariatricPal App

As soon as I get a surgery date I'm going to start vlogging:]

I'm not going to miss the feeling of walking into a room and thinking everyone is thinking about how fat I am. I'm not going to miss being the fat friend. I'm not going to miss being too self conscious to dance, feeling like people are laughing at me. I'm not going to miss my weight being everyone's obvious go-to insult when shit hits the fan. I'm not going to miss immediately taking down family pictures I've been tagged in on facebook because of my bad self image. I'm not going to miss my terrible asthma. I'm not going to miss all my pants fitting on me like a rubber band fits around a marshmellow (lol) I'm not going to miss the disgusting amount of guilt and disappointment I feel when I fail yet another diet. I'm not going to miss the debilitating back, knee, and ankle pain I feel after a good day of hard work. I'm not going to miss avoiding hanging out with friends, and making new friends, for fear of being judged by my weight. I'm not going to miss wearing a sweater all year long because it's the only thing I'm comfortable wearing. I can't wait until my outsides match my insides<3 I can't wait until I'm more than a pretty face. I can't wait until my body doesn't have to lug around all this nonsense. I cant wait until there's room between my body and the arm rests in movie theater seats. I can't wait for cheek bones and collar bones!!! :] I can't wait until I'm not judged for my waistline. I can't wait to be able to take a bath, and still have room for more than just a couple cups of water in the tub lol I can't wait until my weight doesn't hold me back. And I can't wait to see where this takes me. Let's do this damn thing

@@Kindle hahaha! well, I started to really fall in love with a certain insurance company I found. They say they cover bariatric surgery, but I got too excited too quick. I then read they only cover gastric bypass and the lap band . On to the next one! I'm really considering just doing self pay in either vegas or texas, since they both have the most inexpensive costs closest to me. and its only going to be 2- mayyyyybe 3 thousand more than Mexico, and alot less hassle and wait time than insurance. It's so worth the investment.

So I payed a visit to my PCP and discussed VSG, and he was all for the idea so I was jumping for joy. I THOUGHT that would be the hardest part of this process and I thought for sure that I had this surgery thing in the bag, good lord was I wrong. I have to admit that I'm super naive to how all this insurance stuff works, having the luxury of my mothers help my whole life. Well, after my PCP visit, I decide to "come out" to my mother (having not told anyone, because I feel it's humiliating ), explaining that I decided VSG was for me. Come to find out, our insurance doesn't cover WLS, under no circumstances, no matter what comorbidities you may have or what your bmi is. So now I've been cracked out, doing my research, looking for new insurance. I read stories about how people go from PCP to surgery in a month....how?! Everything i'm finding requires like 6 month medically monitored diets, and however many months of counselling...blah blah blah. Now that I see I have so many road blocks, I'm feeling a bit discouraged and defeated. How did everyone keep their sanity while doing all this nonsense? Or maybe any insurance suggestions? I just want to get the ball rolling already!

@@Miss Mac I live in a painfully tiny town where people are having knife fights over burger flipping positions (not literally, but finding a job, even just retail, is really hard. let alone a government job.) and I have another almost 4 months of full-time school, which really puts a damper on my availability. Maybe I should just force marriage on some innocent federal worker. haha

@@Elode I'm so jealous! lol well cross your fingers for me! I wish I would have pursued this years go, I've always wanted WLS, but forever thought my only 2 options were the bypass or lapband. Malnutrition and device complications were nothing I wanted to get involved in, so I steered clear of actually considering it. It was only recently that I found out about VSG and I knew it was perfect for me. Now it's just a matter of making it happen:) @@della street Obamacare sure does cover WLS here, but everything I'm reading says there's a 2 year waiting list. I'd go completely bananas! So I found a good insurance plan that covers WLS, I just have to ask for a more detailed document on what it entails. It looks good though, it's a pricey premium, but the max out of pocket is only 2,000! so it will pay for itself. I just don't want to start paying for it just to find out it has sneaky fine print that would exclude me from qualifying. @@Kindle As soon as I found out my insurance wouldn't cover WLS I started doing my research on Mexico, I'm absolutely determined to make this surgery happen. Now my only worry about that is, I'm a cosmetology student. As of now I have like 8 dollars and a gum wrapper to my name, but I found out that I'm eligible to take out school loans. I'm completely ok with paying for WLS with school loans because it's the cheapest interest rate i'm going to find, and I know it's worth the investment. I'm only able to take out 7,000. All the mexico stuff I've been reading up on the costs roughly that much, which leaves no room for error. This whole part of the process is really nail-biting for me. I think there should be a job for this! Someone who helps step by step through all this and knows what to do. As bad as I want to get the ball rolling with this, I'm also really scared to make a wrong move. eeek

@@Elode I'm super stressed that even with good insurance, I may not qualify. I've had a BMI of over 40 since I was 19(I'm now 25), but 2 years ago I made an honest and hard attempt at losing the weight, I lost 91 lbs. I've now gained 50 back since then(UGH ), which has put me back over 40 BMI, and have had a few visits with my pcp throughout it all, so it's documented, and it wasn't his or a NUT's monitored plan. I'm worried that whatever insurance I have will see such a big fluctuation in my weight and consider me to be able to lose weight on my own. I've also definitely considered mexico but it's terrifying to think if I were to have a leak or form any sort of infection, I'd instantly be consumed by medical debt, being that I'm pretty sure any insurance wouldn't help with it. It's just so much that I don't even know where to start. I'm not even sure who I'd ask all my questions to. Do I ask my potential insurance? Is there things I shouldn't say to them? I feel weird asking them about their WLS coverage right off the bat, because then they'd know I plan on trying to get surgery on their dime. Thank god for this forum. I just feel like there's too much I don't know, and after hours and hours of research, I'm learning a ton, but it's not quite answering all my questions. ahhhh !