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Relocated to Tucson, AZ, anyone out here?

If anyone is still active on this site from Columbus, hit me up! One year post up.

A year post-op in Columbus, Ohio here.

Here's mine, took a little longer to hit my goal than you haha. Started at 410, down to 230 now.

I've lost 175 so far, and see no reason why 200 wouldn't be possible. Took about a year.

Surgery weight 405, at 329 in the second photo below, still got about 80-110 to go. Surgery was 10/15/2013.

Had mine done in Charlotte, NC but just moved to San Tan Valley 2 weeks ago.

Looking to see who is out there near the Queen City.

About 6 business days

Would agree that the pain from the surgery is nothing compared to the gas? I really didn't use the morphine pump, as I knew I still had that incredibly uncomfortable gas situation. It really didn't get better until I started drinking liquids.

Depends who you ask, but I would say yes. I haven't had any trouble getting or keeping water down, 2-3 oz at a time, just have to hold up if i feel the stomach pushing back a little.

Made it to the other side, no problems at all so far (knock on wood).

Hey guys October 15th for me, good luck too everyone!

October 15th in Durham, NC here, can't believe it's finally here.

Charlotte here, having surgery on Oct 15 at Duke Regional in Durham (Dr Sudan). Have Cigna and approved in 6 business days.

I wouldn't be surprised if the ones on YouTube are "Best case scenarios" i.e. very little blood loss. But yes, I thought the same thing.

My first step was to know this document forwards and backwards. Cigna Bariatric Surgery requirements mm_0051_coveragepositioncriteria_bariatric_surgery.pdf

Yea that's crazy, you look about 8 years younger too.

This spurred me to do research and I came across this, very interesting; Lyle McDonald explains it this way: In general, it's true that metabolic rate tends to drop more with more excessive caloric deficits… But here's the thing: in no study I've ever seen has the drop in metabolic rate been sufficient to completely offset the caloric deficit. That is, say that cutting your calories by 50% per day leads to a reduction in the metabolic rate of 10%. Starvation mode you say. Well, yes. But you still have a 40% daily deficit. More reading; http://www.myfitness...mode-myth-again Now, let’s look at another aspect. The folks at Cambridge University in England did a study to determine the different effects starvation had on lean people versus obese people. The study can be found here: http://www.unu.edu/u...od2/UID07E/uid0 7e11.htm. Let’s just cut to the chase with this study. Does starvation mode slow down the metabolism? No and Yes. In the first 2 days of starvation, there is a small absolute increase in basic metabolic rate relative to values obtained from overnight fasting. Overnight fasting is what every one of us does during our sleeping hours. So it is not true that going below recommended calories for one day is going to slow down your metabolism -- quite the contrary, it may speed it up just a little. Of course, this is just limited to the first few days. After that, studies in fact support that “starvation mode” slows down metabolism. Does Starvation mode cause our bodies to catabilize (devour our muscles and other lean mass)? Yes and No. Lean individuals lost great amounts of fat-free, lean tissue during starvation, but obese individuals lost much more fat tissue. The loss of lean mass is not as critical to the obese person simply because an obese person has more lean mass than a person of the same age and height but normal weight. Here we get to a basic idea that makes sense – fat storage – the same way animals build up bulk to rely on during the winter, obese people have fat stores they can use (to a limited extent) in times of need. This means that the effects of a semi-starvation diet upon a normal weight individual are of course much more devastating than the effects on someone who is obese.

If this could be proven, it would change EVERYTHING. I do very well with very restrictive diets (less than 600 calories), but have trouble with 1000-1800 calorie diets, for some reason the less I eat the less hungry I am. I wish research could be done on the true effect on calorie intake metabolism.

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I was told only the surgeons fees would have to be paid upfront (20% of $4,500), and that the hospital fees could be paid later.