LarkNoelle

Is United Healthcare really making you start the 6 months support group after you've already completed 6 months weight management? That's absolute crap! I have Cigna. I went with Cigna instead because I have had problems with UHC denying claims wrongly. Cigna started the requirement of 6 months support in March. I think perhaps prompted by my bitching because I couldn't access their ridiculous online program readily or even find where it was on the website as it wasn't even titled what the requirements listed out. They also added a requirement that a case manager is assigned to you when you call to inform them you are looking at bariatric surgery (I thought I had one because I had called so much...) Well, when my case manager told me about the 6 months I about fell out but the case manager than said immediately - no, no, no you don't have to do that. They started requiring it in March so if you started your 6 months weight management before March, they do not make you do that requirement nor do they require the online program. I just today got all the materials into Dr. Macik's office. This may not be the case with UHC but I imagine it is. I would suggest that you call your doctor's office and talk to them about it. I got the impression from Tiffany at Dr. Macik's office that UHC was the same way. Good luck. And, if UHC added yours on in March they can't legally bind you such a ridiculous requirement. That's making you wait an extra 6 months. It actually is intended I imagine to be done during your 6 months of physician-supervised weight management not to make you wait for the whole term of your year-long insurance -- because, I have always thought that bariatric surgery might not even be offered next year so I would do everything in your power to get it done before the end of the year.

The reason you should eat Protein first is blood sugar levels. Look into the Glycemic Index. Certain foods raise blood sugar high. When you come down off a high high, you will crash and get a craving for something - usually something naughty. Eating protein first sort of braces your body for the higher glycemic loads (blood sugar rises) and it actually will decrease the raising of the levels if you eat it prior to ingesting the higher GI food. Thus, when doc says eat protein, then veggies, then carbs - there is a reason and you should do it. You won't have as many cravings and if you do they will likely be psychological and not physiological. Because, believe it or not, some of this desire to overeat is not just in your mind, your body is telling your mind to do it for identifiable reasons.