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This great! Thank you for sharing and you look wonderful and you sound even better

Definitely update us, I'm curious as I take Zoloft ...

Woohoo!! Congrats!

My insurance requires 6 months prior to surgery... i quit about 6 months ago.. no surgery date but Tuesday is my last NUT appointment... finally!

I was told to quit drinking soda asap... I quit in month 2 of 6... going on 7

I have BCBS FEP and my program mistakenly thought I was compliant after 3 months... I got denied and told to do the full 6 months. I have my final weigh-in/NUT appt in 6 days. Then I'll be able to see how long it takes to be approved; hopefully! Crossing my fingers!

Awesome! I've got 2 more to go! So close!

I met with the surgical consult today. She said that she's sending my info for approval, but I thought there were 6 month requirements. I started on 1/10/17 and it's 3/28/17... so almost 3 months, but I have all the requirements completed.... I have my last emotional behavioral weight management session this Saturday and I have to be 6 months smoke-free. Can they still approval? I had my last cigarette on 1/10/17. When they told me I had to be smoke-free. I was down to just 1-2 an evening that I'd share with my husband. The surgical consult (she was a PA) said to expect surgery to be scheduled and done within the next 6 weeks. Any insight on this?

I got a message from my clinic... my insurance requires 3 more months of meeting with a nutritionist/weigh-ins per month. They had me ready to anticipate a surgery date in May, but looks more like July? August? Idk... I've gone off track. I'm finally posting for support on this... I've gone off my diet and eaten more carbs and sweets than usual, but not totally off the rails. I feel it's semi-controlled. Meaning I'm not eating everything, but instead of eating better choices I'm being lazy. I'm going to do better, but had to be honest with my journey.

I've lost. Consistently. They said my insurance changed from 2016 to 2017. I was more upset since I called back in January and was told what the requirements were and apparently it changed since then. They said they would accept my initial visit with my primary who referred me to the program as my first doctor weight monitored visit or whatever... but they said that won't qualify and they require a dietitian... so insurance and the program were under this assumption that I was good to go, but when they submitted it... they said they won't accept the documentation at this point and I need another 3 months. Which is fine, but I had my head prepared for 6 months, only to have my surgeon say they were ready in April to submit and when I questioned stating I thought I had 3 more months to go I got my hopes up and believed they knew what they were doing. So that's the set back I'm experiencing. I just wish I had followed my understanding and pushed harder when they claimed to know it was time to submit. Since I didn't schedule anything for April with the dietitian I didn't get an appointment for April and the soonest was May... so I'm pushed back yet another month... this could have been avoided since I scheduled all of my appointments with the nutritionalist back in January to avoid this very thing... I'm just disappointed and I feel it could have been prevented and I could have kept up with the plan rather than be disappointed and had gotten my hopes up... now it's pushed back 4 months... after it should only have been 3 months... but since I didn't get in during April it's pushed out another month. That's all.

Thanks, I've done the photograph, I've cut out carbonated drinks, alcohol and caffeine. I have been upping my exercise per the program... but I have been meaning to add in 30 minutes per day rather than just 3x per week.

Yay! That's great!

I quit drinking pop... Coke Zero or Diet Coke about 2 months ago now. I went through the headaches and body aches. I'm better now, but picked up drinking coffee in the morning... I'm sure that's no good and I'll need to quit that too

I have BCBS FEP... just waiting for my doc to submit. They said they'd do it this week... but i called insurance customer service and they said they haven't received the submission yet...

I can't believe how quickly everyone's seems to go! It's exciting!

How long did it end up taking? Do you have a surgery date?

I just found out my dr submitted my docs for approval to my insurance company... today! 3/29!

Oh and the psych assessment/evaluation...

I just finished (almost) everything required. I did 12 weeks of emotional behavioral weight management (last session this Saturday), I met with endocrinology twice, nutritionalist 3 times (including weigh ins), had to bring an oxygenator home and wear it on my finger overnight, had to do a 24 hour urine catch (history of kidney stones), and I just had my surgeon consult (done with the PA) today. She said she is going submit my docs... but I thought my insurance requires 6 months of being tobacco free... I had my cigarette on 1/10/17... I asked her about that and she said that they'll submit it tomorrow... after consulting with the surgeon to do the RNY but if the history of kidney stones sways him then I guess I'm in the wrong group and I'll be doing the sleeve... I'll find out tomorrow I guess

I'm pre-op. I started in January and I'm here for my 3rd weigh in. I lost 9.5 lbs at my last weigh in. I lost 3.5 lbs in about 6 weeks since. So in total I've lost 13 lbs since my first appointment. So that's overall good. So why do I still feel like I've failed and so disappointed in myself? I spent the last 3 weeks at my parents house where I got no support... and actually I left last night due to being unable to emotionally handle being there any longer. (I have my own house but got a new job in my hometown and to help with the transition I was staying there with my kids). I will commute. I will have better and healthier foods again. I think I'm feeling so hurt with the lack of support because my brother just lost 85 lbs thru change in diet and exercise and they accommodated his diet by making healthy meals and gifting him a high quality treadmill. I assumed they would make healthy meals for me as well... no wait. I didn't assume. My mom told me she would help by making those healthy meals, but no... I would try to make something only I could eat since I wasn't interested in the cream based meals and a stick of butter in the sauce type stuff. Only to be confronted with mom tears and a good helping of guilt. My clothes fit differently now so I had hoped that my portion control worked. It sort of did but not with results that I had hoped to have. There so many emotions tied to my weight. My parents are relatively healthy... my brother and I were adopted and struggled with weight since our teen years. My mom questioned my involvement with Mayo and questioned if it is even necessary since I'm losing on my own now... then gasped when I told her my stats, which made me immediately feel defensive. I kept my composure but packed our things and left as soon as our discussion ended. 11pm my father calls to tell me how immature I am and how much of a disappointment I am. Forget that I am successful and fully employed as well as working 2 other part-time jobs not because we need the money, but because it's my passion. He also dug into my husband, who was diagnosed with cancer last June and underwent horrendous treatment, but he's a lazy pos in his eyes because he didn't (shocker) mow the lawn and put that responsibility on my 30-year-old-able-bodied-85-lbs-less-brother. I'm just hurt and shocked at my father reaching out to me to tell me to 1) be more insightful to know when my mother isn't meaning to criticize me 2) be more mature than my mother and handle her going off on me with grace and not to react and 3) accept the way she treats me and roll over and take it without changing the family gatherings because sweeping her crap under the table and acting like it didn't happen is easier on them. I didn't eat anything to sabotage my progress. I am making progress.

Thank you for your words of encouragement- it really means a lot to me. My family is no different, I know we have issues... but I'm not going to engage in any family gatherings anytime soon. I just don't care to right now. I'm hurt but I'll get over it. Today, I'm focusing on the good news... I went home with an oxygenator to screen for sleep apnea and tomorrow I'm meeting for the surgical consult. My last emotional behavioral weight management appointment is this Saturday. The pieces are lining up

Congrats!! Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

I'm also looking at both options. I meet with the surgeon in a few months and I have a feeling they'll talk with me about those options. I havent been told one over the other at this point. I'm leaning toward the RNY Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

I'm using MyFitnessPal and I'm tracking calories. After meeting with the nutritionist I have a goal of 1500 calories. Yesterday marks 1 week finished. I started at 291 lbs. and I'm now 283 lbs. I'm glad to see there's a change, but I don't feel much different at this point and that's okay. I'm still going. I've lost the weight before; like a yo-yo. I usually plateau around 270-260. I get nervous that I'll lose too much too fast or I'll somehow not qualify and then I'll be stuck and give up. My first week was tough to reach 1500 and it was more around 1200-1300. My husband is supporting me and doing this right along with me. I've meal prepped and made my lunches for the week on Sunday and that was the best thing to do. I've been able to cut out soda pop and I'm going on day 3 now. I have to keep a "why" journal. So far I've just been thinking about the "whys" of doing this... I'm heading to the store to buy a little notebook to keep with me to write down reasons I come across... I thought of one while walking to the shower this morning. Id like to have a towel wrap around my entire body. I claim I'm fine being naked, but truth is the towel doesn't wrap around me and I dry off and chuck the towel or wrap my hair right away. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

Thanks! I've found it easier to lose the more I weigh. At Christmas time I bought jeans size 26 and my tops were 26/28. That was when I couldn't ignore this anymore. I've been 22/24 for nearly a decade. Id fluctuation between closer to 22 or more a size 24 throughout. When I'd diet and exercise I'd get down to 18/20... so I have a box of that size in the storage room of our house. I'm looking for forward to shopping for 14/16 and so on. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App