moonlitestarbrite

subway, like other fast food chains, is at the bottom of the food chain. dont be a bottom feeder.

try OAMC, once a month cooking. i do personal cheffing and cook like this for my clients. http://onceamonthmeals.com/

check with your doc. i was told no vigorous cardio until a was getting in all my water and at least 600 cal a day. (maybe more for a guy)

its hard to feed my kids period! ???? one is a carb monster, the other loves anything sweet and is allergic to Protein. (or so she would have you believe) as long as i dont let myself get hungry, i dont cheat.

has your doctor cleared you for exercise yet?

took me 5 months before i could get both my water and protein in on the same day... up to that point it was one of the other.

i am just wondering where in the heck surgery without any preparation is approved by insurance? where i live surgery is only covered by insurance if you have a long list of requirements that are fulfilled. depending on your specific insurance, it can take 6-12 months for approval. crazy!

i would say a personal trainer will help you more in the long run than a diet drug. the drug might help suppress your appetite, but its actually going to slow your metabolism more, leading eventually to less weight loss.

if they have a specific exclusion, an appeal wont help. PPOs are renegotiated each year. you can talk to your H's employer and see if they are willing to ask that the surgery be included in coverage next year. you can also negotiate the price of the surgery. insurance companies only pay a portion of what they are billed, you arent required to pay more than insurance companies do. my surgery was about 18K, the insurance paid about 12k. you can also assign flex spending benefits to pay for this... its pre-tax, so in the end, ends up costing you less.

any psychologist who diagnoses someone with depression based on crying in a session sucks. so guessing you didnt see whatever diagnostic measure he used to determine her depression. those shows are heavily edited. depression presents with very specific symptoms. while excessive or inappropriate crying might be one of them, its not how a mental health professional would diagnose it. anyone with untreated depression should not be approved for surgery. depression should be treated and managed before someone attempts life changing surgery. expressing emotion in at the psych eval is normal and natural. you should strive to be honest and your true self at the eval. just be who you are and answer the questions as truthfully as possible. the therapist is there to help you.

sherB, i had similar issues... i had a longer than normal recovery period. it was 5 months before i could get all my water and protein in. now at 13 months i am doing well. hang in there!

she wrote an article for the magazine about being a consultant for people who have had WLS. she's talking about people looking at why they sell themselves short when they are so close to a "normal" BMI. this is why she cares about other peoples goals..... its her job. " Sara Kelly Keenan is a Certified Life Coach, trained by the Academy of Coaching and NLP and a member of ICF, the International Coaching Federation. She works with clients locally in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world on Skype, FaceTime and landline."

rocking your saggy ass! woot!

only good things! my son, who is about 20 pounds overweight is exercising more and eating less junk. (we never had much in the house to begin with, but he is a couch potato and loves a huge bowl of Pasta like some kids like candy) mom getting healthy can only have positive affects on the kids, even if getting rid of the junk is tough.

how do you feel her ideas have supported your recovery?

i have noticed that most people who say they regret this surgery fall into two categories... those who regret it because of complications, and those who have vague regrets about being unhappy or feeling like its just too much work. my MIL would fall into this category. she sincerely believes what would make her happy would be to never have to think about food ever again. she finds thinking about and making decisions about food incredibly stressful. she has lupus and went and saw a doctor who put her on a special diet a few years ago. it made her more miserable than i have ever seen her. she hates cooking, hates shopping, hates planning meals. she lives on non fat yogurt, fruit and take out, now that she is retired. she keeps asking me about my surgery (since she is overweight, her mom was morbidly obese, and her boyfriend too), but she would be incredibly unhappy having to think about every single thing she put in her mouth. i also think there are a lot of people who sincerely believe that they would be happy if only they lost weight. and when they find out this surgery doesnt make you magically happy, they are very disappointed. and maybe regret their decision. and then there are the people who trade food addiction for another addiction.... i imagine they have regrets too.

most people use a fitbit. i used body media. there is jawbone, and nike makes one too. it measures the total output of calories per day. by complicated i mean i didnt really understand what emotional eating meant FOR ME. i didnt really grasp how i was medicating ALL my uncomfortable feelings. i was not a typical yo yo dieting overweight person. i was active, did yoga, enjoyed exercise, ate a very clean diet... things really changed for me physically after my son was born, my gall bladder was removed, i turned 40, but the reason for my overeating was primarily emotional. and it wasnt simple enough for me to just stop when i realized that. it was way harder and required much more drastic change in my life than just deciding i wasnt going to do it anymore. my father died when he was 56 from a heart attack, his father died at 56 from a stroke. i wasnt willing to play the what if game any longer. i have no regrets.

i started using a body bug (metabolic tracker) several years ago... this gave me my first glimpse into the fact that my "emotional eating" was wayyyyy more complicated than i ever grasped. but i was not ever able to really get a handle on it. esp since i felt like i was just scratching the surface. i would say if my life was different, i could have handled it. but the truth is, if my life was different, i probably wouldnt have gotten fat to begin with.....

not anymore now that i learned to manage it. but a few times over the last year it got bad enough i needed to use drastic measures to get things moving. its something i needed to learn to prevent, since i never had this issue in the past.

i needed the metabolic reset the surgery gives. i wasnt able to get enough insight into what was happening with me until i was actually able to stop eating. without the surgery i hadnt been able to lose enough weight for it to make any difference to me. despite clean eating, counting calories, and exercising regularly, i actually gained weight due to hormonal issues and medication. after 3 years i was so discouraged. and due to serious medical problems, i needed to lose weight NOW. i had my surgery 13 months ago and dont regret it at all. (well except when i am crying in frustration from constipation) i weigh now what i weighed 25 years ago.

actually this sounds like most of us around here.

i wasnt trying to be nice, i was trying to point out that most of us get fat and stay fat without a second thought of how much risk we are putting ourselves in. we lie to ourselves about the reality of how risky being fat is. some of us wake up and make permanent changes because we arent willing to put ourselves in that much risk anymore. i understand the OP is overwhelmed with the idea of the surgery. but being overweight is, in reality, something to be much more frightened of.

oh honey, thinking only good thoughts for you.

well, tell your daughter you met someone online who ended up 100 pounds overweight by eating organic, free range, not processed, whole foods only. lol

HAHAHA. well, it depends on where i am in my cycle. **blink blink**