DougNichols

Haha, I took a lot of dancing classes. And being fat, I sweat and all the ladies AVOID ME LIKE I HAVE A DISEASE. They'll go around the room and say "Ladies, pick your men!" and I'll be standing there by myself. I try to make eye contact with them and smile, and they look away really fast. I stopped going after a few weeks, obviously. :thumbup1:

To fit in a restaurant booth.

Did you at least lose some weight?

Your last two years would be the day of your application - 2 years? So 01/2009 - 01/2011 ?

So you're on Atkins induction. That's not nearly as bad as other people who say they can only have 1 meal a day, and require shakes for the rest.

Woot, grats!

Wow, sounds great! Just curious - did your urges for fast food, sweets and other things come back over time, or are they still gone? thanks!

History is required for mine. I got a little happy sheet from the surgeon's office that says, "Medical records that document a 2-year history of obesity ..." And they gave me a waiver to obtain doctor records from my PCP for the past 3 years.

From reading a billion posts on different forums, if you meet Aetna's requirements, they approve very fast, and reliably.

It was on the requirements given to me by my surgeon. Here's their page: Obesity Surgery

Our 2 week liquid diet puts us into Christmas, so we probably won't get surgery until between then and new years. Or after Jan 1st. I'm assuming that most of the surgeons will take a good hunk of late December off. liquid diet while the remainder of my family feasts on turkey will suck, lol.

Hey Peatie, you have the same hoop jumping cutoff date as me. Keep in touch.

This makes sense. I really haven't pursued many relationships since I've been obese, and I do distinctly remember how bad some of them were when I was thin. I guess it's par for the course.

Getting off my diet coke addiction was the best thing I've ever done. At one point in my life, I was consuming 2 2-liters a day of that crap. Then I finally weened myself off of it one cup at a time until it was totally gone. No more searching for diet coke in the morning, being embarrassed at purchasing 10 2-liters at the WalMart line, that was way too many chemicals for my body. Plus it just made me more hungry.

That's so awesome, I'm gonna miss the gym A LOT after surgery. Great to know I can go back after a week or so (after checking with my surgeon of course).

You don't HAVE to be thin, you can still be overweight, just not massively obese. Your risk for heart disease, cancer and all sorts of bad things are higher when you are severely overweight. Lowering yourself down to just "slightly overweight" will be so much healthier for your body.

Papa Johns commercials are killing me. I have to mute them and turn away... (trying to lose weight before I get sleeved)

woah! Awesome!

congratulations!

Sounds painful. Yet another reason I'm telling people that I'm on a supervised diet by my doctor. Nobody can say that's bad, nor complain about it.

I have 150 to lose

Oh God, I had this when I was much younger. It was so painful, I woke up and asked my mother if I was dead.

No, I too find it funny that: - Everybody is to blame for her surgery, except for Carrie. - She removed her profile picture and changed gender to "unspecified" immediately after she began heavily complaining. I can see removing a pic, but the gender thing made me giggle. - The moment people point out the silliness of her statements, she goes into hiding for a few days. Not only that, but she announces that she's leaving so we'll somehow feel guilty about how evil and mean we are. Then she comes back and posts the same topic with a different title, to test the waters. It just seems like she's demanding support and attention from an internet bulletin board. When realistically she needs some family or friends, or better yet - probably a counselor at this point if she's genuinely having mental issues. All the above is just my opinion, please don't sue me too.

http://verticalsleevetalk.com/general-sleeve-surgery-discussion/8797-my-situation.html

Are the boots required for everybody, or only people over a certain weight?