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A weight loss surgery blog by chantel03 on BariatricPal. 6 entries on surgery, recovery and progress.

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Read more about help me..help me..please..everyone..wei ght loss tips!!!!

help me..help me..please..everyone..wei ght loss tips!!!!

:confused:okay, so in order to get the lap band i have to lose 10-15 pounds by june 30th. i have a hip disease and it really limits the amount of exercise i can do. and obviously i have no will power when it comes to food. but i really REALLY want the band so im confident i can stick to any weight loss plan for another 20 days. i did the cabbage soup thing last week and i went form 253 to 247 but i need to get down to 239. so i was wondering, if anyone had any tips. or what your pre op diet con

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• chantel03
• June 10, 200917 yr

Read more about i hate him!!!

i hate him!!!

urghhhhhhhhhhh!!! i cant even described how royally pissed off i am at my PCM. so i got to my appointment today (had to get up at 4:30 am to take hubby to work) get to his office wait thirty minutes just for him to give me ANOTHER piece of paper. but wait it gets better.....whats on this paper you ask?!?! MY TRICARE INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS!!!! something you think he would have given me when we first met a month ago. .....what was on this paper you ask?!?!?! i ahve to lose 10 pounds as a form of c

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• chantel03
• June 3, 200917 yr

Read more about my story.....

my story.....

like most on here, ive had and up and down battle with weight all my lfe. when i was 18 i decided i wanted to enlist into the military and i was not going to let my weight stop me. i lost 50 pounds in a year and thought for the first time in my llife i was auctually going to beat this weight battle. i was 19 164 pounds and i felt great.i enlisted in the airforce and was sent to basic in san antonio. i was there for 6 weeks and 2 days before i graduated i was sent home. turns out the pain in my h

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• chantel03
• May 30, 200917 yr

Read more about I hate shrinks!!!!

I hate shrinks!!!!

:mad:urghhhhhhhh!!! i am so MAD!!! so after all my jumping thru hoops with the docs and the nutritionist and the STUPID shrink's 3 hour test....i go in today to find out the results of the test.of course everything was fine, i know im not crazy, and i realize how big of a decision this is. but the STUPID shrink (who knows nothing about lap bad, i might add and only about the gastric bypass)told me that she will approve me getting the surgery but , basically is going to request i go on a supervi

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• chantel03
• May 26, 200917 yr

Read more about germany... tricare...frankfurt

germany... tricare...frankfurt

hey everyone, im currently living in ramstein germany...hubbys in the airforce, and i was just wondering has anyone had the surgery recently over here? and do you know if landstuhl does it or do you have to go to frankfurt.i'd rather go to frankfurt anyways, that way i know someone experience is doing it, but right now i'd take anything. im 5'8 247 pounds with severe arthritis and a degenerative hip diesease. do you think that would be enough for tricare? obviously im also a 100 pounds over wei

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• chantel03
• May 12, 200917 yr

Read more about the waiting....help...someone ...anyone

the waiting....help...someone ...anyone

okay so im going crazy:lol:. after 2 years of debating this im finally going for it. my hubby is in the airforce and we ae currently overseas in germany. i started the first step of making an appointment with my PCM but am terrified of not getting a referral. not to mention even if i do get a referal, so many people are having trouble with tricare. im 22 years old, 247 pounds. 5'8inches tall with severe arthritis and a degenerative hip diesease that can only be fixed by a hip replacement. has

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• chantel03
• May 12, 200917 yr