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My understanding is that your body is unable to absorb over 40 grams of protein at a time so anything over that is wasted. I might be wrong but I remember reading about it and talking to my nutritionist about it and she agreed. I was interested in doing this with my protein drink but my nutritionist sd it wd be a waste and stick with the 35 g of protein I get with 1 scoop.

My understanding is that your body is unable to absorb over 40 grams of protein at a time so anything over that is wasted. I might be wrong but I remember reading about it and talking to my nutritionist about it and she agreed. I was interested in doing this with my protein drink but my nutritionist sd it wd be a waste and stick with the 35 g of protein I get with 1 scoop.

My understanding is that your body is unable to absorb over 40 grams of protein at a time so anything over that is wasted. I might be wrong but I remember reading about it and talking to my nutritionist about it and she agreed. I was interested in doing this with my protein drink but my nutritionist sd it wd be a waste and stick with the 35 g of protein I get with 1 scoop.

I was suprised I was not having a huge issue as I expected from everything everyone had been saying about the pain in drinking. I drink everything out of my water bottle that has a small round opening on the top and I guess that has been keeping me from getting air in. Last week I grabbed a glass and drank some water and I was like oh my god i'm having a heart attack the pain was so excruciating. no more drinking from glasses for me. This water bottle is stuck to me like glue now.

I was suprised I was not having a huge issue as I expected from everything everyone had been saying about the pain in drinking. I drink everything out of my water bottle that has a small round opening on the top and I guess that has been keeping me from getting air in. Last week I grabbed a glass and drank some water and I was like oh my god i'm having a heart attack the pain was so excruciating. no more drinking from glasses for me. This water bottle is stuck to me like glue now.

Time to pull out your before picture and put it on your refrigerator, or hang in your pantry. I saw a video blog on youtube of one girl who even had a before picture of herself taped to her water bottle so it wd remind her constantly why she needed to keep drinking her water. Ask yourself every time you choose to open the refrigerator or pantry do you want to go back to the girl in the picture. You have done a great job with your weight loss so far and you are stronger than this!

Time to pull out your before picture and put it on your refrigerator, or hang in your pantry. I saw a video blog on youtube of one girl who even had a before picture of herself taped to her water bottle so it wd remind her constantly why she needed to keep drinking her water. Ask yourself every time you choose to open the refrigerator or pantry do you want to go back to the girl in the picture. You have done a great job with your weight loss so far and you are stronger than this!

Exactly why my MIL doesn't know anything about me having this done. I told my DH not to say anything to her because instead of being supportive I felt it would give her ammunition to find fault and this is too tough a battle to go thru to deal with this kind of stuff. I totally agree with you that it is totally a individual decision.

I know it's hard but don't get discouraged. Same thing happened to me as well with Cigna. I got a denial 3 days after submission saying I was missing physician's recommendation as well as 6 months of diet. They recvd both - in fact they recvd my entire patient file for each individual month and a letter was also enclosed my dr had written why I needed to have this done. My case worker was totally baffled but told me it happens more than it doesnt and that with the denial the next step wd be to appeal which they immediately did and had a peer to peer with Cigna's dr. They requested to have the information placed on one page instead of reviewing each months of weigh ins's and dr notes on 6 different pages. My Dr also had to write a one liner saying I was all clear for surgery. Once my case worker sent it back that way they approved 2 weeks later. I think this is probably one way that Cigna tries to allow themselves more time in reviewing the case because once they deny they automatically have additional time to work thru their process. If you have a case worker that works for your dr they should be handling all this for you.Also don't expect to get any information from Cigna that is correct once it's denied because the notes are not updated so customer service can see once it is being reviewed by Cigna's advocate who is assigned for the peer to peer. I learned this the hardway and with much frustration when I tried to get info after everything was resubmitted and kept being given inaccurate info. As this was happening I heard from my caseworker that I had been approved but they were waiting on the info in writing before they proceeded and had Known for a week but at the same time Cigna was telling me they were showing in their notes they were waiting on a peer to peer to be done with my dr.

My reasons I chose to go with the Sleeve was after much research. I personally did not want to have to contend with malabsorptin issues, dumping which can happen with the sleeve but much more so with the bypass nor did I care about having my insides redesigned.
I also know there is a whole lot of less down time with the sleeve with the typical same results.

I have to be at the hospital at 5:15 MONDAY morning and am scheduled for the 1st surgery of the day at 8:15. I have been so busy this week that I haven't had time to even think about it very much. All I can say is Wow! several times today I have thought to myself "hey girl don't you realize you are about to voluntarily remove 85% of your stomach, are you crazy? why aren't you nervous?"
I am so at peace about this whole thing it's so totally unbelievable. My only thought I keep having is what if I do this and don't lose the weight I'm gonna feel like a complete failure! Non-sense aside I can't wait to get my life back!

My reasons I chose to go with the Sleeve was after much research. I personally did not want to have to contend with malabsorptin issues, dumping which can happen with the sleeve but much more so with the bypass nor did I care about having my insides redesigned.
I also know there is a whole lot of less down time with the sleeve with the typical same results.

Went to the surgeon today and was set up with my surgery date for June 18th! The dr sd he usually required a liquid diet for two weeks but since I had done so well with my weight loss as long as I promised not to go crazy he wasn't going to require it of me! So exciting but at same time feels weird to be ecstatic about someone cutting into me and removing majority of my stomach.

Went to the surgeon today and was set up with my surgery date for June 18th! The dr sd he usually required a liquid diet for two weeks but since I had done so well with my weight loss as long as I promised not to go crazy he wasn't going to require it of me! So exciting but at same time feels weird to be ecstatic about someone cutting into me and removing majority of my stomach.

Went to the surgeon today and was set up with my surgery date for June 18th! The dr sd he usually required a liquid diet for two weeks but since I had done so well with my weight loss as long as I promised not to go crazy he wasn't going to require it of me! So exciting but at same time feels weird to be ecstatic about someone cutting into me and removing majority of my stomach.

I finally got my approval!

After all the hoop jumping with the insurance and waiting for the decision from the insurance company, I finally heard from the dr's office saying that they got the approval. It has taken so long to get to this point that I am so FREAKIN EXCITED!
Sounds really strange even to me to be excited about having 80% of my stomach removed but I am so looking forward to doing all the things I haven't been able to do for so many years!

After all the hoop jumping with the insurance and waiting for the decision from the insurance company, I finally heard from the dr's office saying that they got the approval. It has taken so long to get to this point that I am so FREAKIN EXCITED!
Sounds really strange even to me to be excited about having 80% of my stomach removed but I am so looking forward to doing all the things I haven't been able to do for so many years!