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Hi,

Did anyone else have problem with there insurance company that made them do a 6month health & wellness. And had loss 5% of my weight.....omg

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Hello. I somewhat did but not six months. I had to go to a 12 week class then have a physical then a psych eval and a regular check up with my primary followed by a doc appointment with surgeon then another a month later to re evaluate an make sure everything was still ok to proceed. In all it took about 6months for some in my classes it was less time. Just depends on how well your blood test came back. We were required to loss 10% of our weight by the end of class too.

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Search around and you will that many of us had to go through a 6 month medically supervised weight loss program because it was an insurance requirement. It was way too long in my opinion but you do what you have to do to get this procedure done. No point fighting it or making yourself crazy over it. Just start it as soon as you can get an appointment

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Hello. I somewhat did but not six months. I had to go to a 12 week class then have a physical then a psych eval and a regular check up with my primary followed by a doc appointment with surgeon then another a month later to re evaluate an make sure everything was still ok to proceed. In all it took about 6months for some in my classes it was less time. Just depends on how well your blood test came back. We were required to loss 10% of our weight by the end of class too.

WOW!!! I guess I'm not alone. Good luck with your weight loss

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Search around and you will that many of us had to go through a 6 month medically supervised weight loss program because it was an insurance requirement. It was way too long in my opinion but you do what you have to do to get this procedure done. No point fighting it or making yourself crazy over it. Just start it as soon as you can get an appointment

Thx, I have . 1 month down 5 to go...lol

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Good luck .. I didn't find out I had to do six months to three months after i started the process it was long but fast if that make since like I hated doing it but I'm done im waiting for approval

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Just finished my 6 month today. Lost 16 pounds total. The hard part was maintaining the last three months no loss at all.

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I lost 19 pounds but I did gain one month do to hurricane issac the store was short supply of food so we at out a lot that month I'm so ready to do this

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