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I'm on day 4 and it is HARD whoever thinks this is the easy way to weight loss should try it because it's not, i had a little encouragement yesterday I stepped on the scale (fully clothed mind you) and already lost 11 lbs but who knows where those came from lol i'm trying to get all my fluids in and PROTEIN FIRST as the golden rule but the protein shakes are getting harder and harder to put down as they become my only food source gotta keep mixing it up! don't get stuck in a rut! those are just some of the things I keep telling myself good luck girls I'm starving along with you!!!!

That girl in the window is you "the inside you" the one thats healthy and feels great! I can't wait to join you on the band journey I'm counting down the days only 11 more days till surgery and I can't wait!!! I'm so ready to start my new life and see the window me in just a regular mirror! How long before you go back to work/school? I took off a week do you think that will be enough you said you feel good now I hope I have to same recovery time! :w00t:

Thats awesome I'm sure your surgery will go awesome if you need to see yourself skinny go by one of those weird windows with a bar splitting it and stand in front of the bar a few feet back....you'll look 1/2 your size...this use to depress me untill I got my surgery date for March 24th now it's just a goal!!! Good Luck let us all know how you do!!!! :thumbup:

Hi I just started my liquid diet on tuesday anyone out there struggling not to think about food? looking forward to the 24th????

So I'm only on my first day of 14 for my preop liquid diet I already feel as though I'm going just collapse from exaustion I keep readying everyones post to feel better and know that eventually I will not be starving.... I have a dinner for work tomorrow night so we will see how that goes I'm going in hoping not to cheat at all but if I do I wanna make good decisions like steamed veggies and chicken atleast go with as less amount of failure as I can right? I just so hungry right now.... :thumbup:

Hi Everyone, My surgery is set for March 24th!!!! I'm late in March but so looking forward to it, not so much looking forward to the needles that are involved but I can deal. I hope everyone thats gone is so far is doing well and hope everyone that has to do the liquid diet with me does well, I'm a little worried about trying to to cheat but I think I will do okay my diet starts tuesday and tomorrow I'm clearing out the food in my room and in my apartment so I'm not tempted and I already have some pretty tasty protein shakes so I don't see this being to awful of course ask me in a week and we'll see. I was wondering if anyone had any secrets to kill the hunger cravings?

Does anyone know what all the Pre-op test are?

My Insruance BCBS requires me to be morbidly obese for 3 years....I'm recently become morbidly obese (last year) and they tell me that the fact that I was obese for more than 3 years is not enough I have to be deathly obese for 3 years before they will consider covering the surgery.... Have to love insurances they want your health to get worse before they will pay for it to get better..jackasses

Hi Everyone I have a strange question or situation to ask about.... I'm a 24 year old morbidly obese female, I'm trying to get back into having sex after a 3 year dry spell... the guy I'm with is great only one this sex is just not enjoyable or as fun as I think it is for others. It's okay or I describe it as "eh" see the thing is it's not the guy he's doing everything to make it great for me but it's just not It's like my whole sex drive has gone straight out the window although I want to have enjoyable fun sex....I try and nothing happens. Does anyone else have this problem I feel like I'm a weirdo because I don't enjoy sex

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Is there any habit that you wished you would have broke pre-band?

My Appt for a Sleep Study is in Two weeks from today I get to go on the 30th which kinda is stinky because my long day is friday and of course it's Halloween but it should help for the "dead" look I'm going for since I was gonna be a vampire this year! ha ha

Thanks everyone I have a appt with my PCP so I can get a referal for a sleep study....the more research i do on SA the more I think it's possible that i have it. I'll keep you updated thanks again for the advice!

Thanks for all your answers and I would love to follow some of your advice :thumbup: I'm working on it lol. I think I'm going to talk to my PCP sometime next week and see if I can't get him to get me a order for a sleep study. Since I've been denied for insurance because I haven't been tested for sleep apnea amoung other things but my insurance pays for it so why not? Thanks everyone!

I was wondering if anyone knew beforehand that they had sleep apnea. I'm wondering because I'm single and therefore sleep alone so I'm not really sure if I snore or stop breathing while I'm sleeping. I thought about setting up a camera but the longest my digital camera's thing will run is like 15 minutes so that doesn't really work. I have most the other symptoms like tired all the time and wake up sweating, waking up at night and so on. Just thought I would get everyone's thoughts on this to see if anyone knew they had sleep apnea beforehand?

I made it 40.8 i was wearing boots and a sweatshirt and I'm sure that added more. Thanks for all your advice!!!

Hey I have BCBS PPO too, if you don't mind me asking what is your BMI? they required me to do the 6 month diet reguardless of my BMI but if you are at 40 BMI or above you don't need to have documented comorbidities well their "approved" comorbidities. Good luck keep us updated

Thanks guys for all your help and well-wishes. I'm so close to the BMI of 40 and I've been 40 before I just actually tried to lose weight on my 6 month diet and now I'm being denied the surgery because I'm below. It's actually really sad that I'm being punished and have to end up punishing my body so I can not go into an insane amount of debt (not to mention to add to my college loans) just so I can get this tool to become healthier. I just made my appt yesterday *because of heartburn being worse* and thought this would be a great opportunity to get the weigh in and send that in with my appeal...that way I don't gotta go back again between classes, reading and work getting into the dr is a hard task thanks again everyone for your support and suggestions

if you go back to more months around the same time you might be able to use the last 4 months make a appt for around a month from your last one just incase they don't accept it that way you can resubmit in 2 months and have 6 consecutive months

I am here to lose weight but if 5lbs is the difference between $2,000 and $20,000 in debt I'm willing to try!

I need to gain weight before I get weighed tomorrow I'm only 5lbs from having a BMI of 40 and therefore insurance approval please any advice helps I've been eating a crap ton of bread today any other suggestions?

ARGH, I got denied again!!!! I'm so upset I just wanna freak out on the insurance people although I know it'll get me know where? something along the lines of ARE YOU FREAKIN KIDDING ME!?!?!? You denied me the first time because you said that my BMI wasn't documented and this time you denied me for "unknown" reasons according to the guy on the phone but apparently it'll be on some letter I'm getting in the mail....prob will say not medically necessary...because that is really specific and helps me try and convince you in the appeals process that I need this surgery! stupid insurance!?!? :thumbup:

I guess I really never watched the show before I just kinda ended up on that channel. It was actually another Dr it's wasn't house himself it was the blonde haired guy dr. the other dr's were trying to tell him that it could be something else (besides the little girl just being lazy as he said) but he just kept refering to her weight as her fault it was actually really sad because I'm sure there are Dr.'s out there that do act like that towards obese children. The one dr said something to the effect of making the little girl feel horrible about herself wasn't going to help the situation. to which the blonde guy dr said that it would if it would get her off the couch. I don't know why it got on my nerves it just did. But I understand more about the show now so it makes sense that they would put that kind of issue on there to make it more interesting. I actually liked Dr. House he's a smart ass but the other dr was just written to be a ass I think. I think i'm gonna watch it more often simply cause I like the House guy not so much the other one....

I should have picked up on that it is a pretty significant difference in accents, oh well I watched the rest of the show and it ended pretty well turns out the girl had cushings but reguardless, maybe they were trying to show how some people can be ignorant to why people are over weight....oh well I'm over it now *that was quick*

okay so I need to vent alittle I was/am watching house and there is this 10 year old girl on there that is obese and the british guy is saying all the normal "reasons" for obesity that obese people just shovel food in their mouths, don't try to exercise, basically that obese people want to be fat and thats why they are.... Seriously it's so irritating I know that most of us have heard these things "slip" from people we've been around (usually shortly followed by the "oh not you") but still its so sterotypical when are people going to learn STEROTYPES are that and just that sterotypes they aren't real and don't apply to every situation. I suppose this irritates me even more because i've heard from a few people lately that I didn't need to have the surgery because I could just watch what I eat and exercise more.... yes because that has worked out so well for me in the past I need a tool to make those things work and without it those things just don't work...okay rant over