So many unanswered questions

[Worried21 0]

Hey everyone so today I found out that my BMI is 42.2 and I am eligible for lap band surgery. My insurance requires a 6 month diet supervision. I'm not sure what that means. Is it supervision of a doctor or what? Someone please enlighten me

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Yes, it means you'll have to be supervised by and report to your doctor while doing a 6 month diet. He'll tell you which diet to follow, too.

[Worried21 0]

Thank you so much

[Worried21 0]

Thank you so much

[sp70 193]

I had to do a 3 month supervised diet....I did weight watchers and went to my doctor monthly for weigh ins and talk to him about my diet and exercise.

[cassandramontes 112]

My insurance didn't require that but the one I had before did. I had to write down everything I ate and see a nutritionist on visits so she could tell me what I was eating wrong and guide me.

[JULESDARLN 26]

Everyone is different. I have United Healthcare and they required 6mths of Dr. visits and 6mths with nutritionist. My nutritionist put me on my diet, went over a lot of information, Portion Control, exercise, what to do when craving stuff... very helpful. When I see my Dr. he just wants to know what I am doing to lose weight and that's about it, less than 15min. lol. btw, my insurance would not take weight watchers or anything like that, that is why I had to see a nutritionist. Good Luck!

[B-52 7,113]

My insurance required a medically supervised 6 month diet, within 2 years of surgery...the reason they required this is because.....

The surgery is a last resort, after attempts at traditional dieting have been tried, and failed....BUT the insurance co. did not want to simply take my word for it....they required something official..signed off by a Dr. complete with progress notes, graphs, etc, showing, for the record, that will go into my file, that I did make an attempt at a good structured diet.

On this 6 month diet, I started out good, lost weight for the first 4 months, then "fell off the wagon" like I have done with every diet I have attempted, and started to gain the weight back...

I felt guilty, but was reassured that if I was any good at it, why would I need weight loss surgery???

For me, WLS is not a diet, it was corrective surgery inhibiting me from doing what I could not do on my own...I could not stop overeating....WLS put an end to that....and now I have achieved what I could never have done before, and keep it off permanently...