Jana64

I'm glad my requirements are done. Ten weeks now. Funny, I feel like I'm counting down to a pregnancy due date.

Today I go to my Nutritionist approval appointment. I hope I pass this one. I passed the psych evaluation on Monday. then I have two more weigh ins for my insurance mandated 5 month diet. One is next Tuesday and then there is one in January. So far, I have lost about eleven pounds on the insurance diet and dropped one full size. I just had to buy a new swim suit because mine does not fit and had to buy a smaller size underwear. Although 11 pounds is not a lot, my body is really firming up from all of the swimming that I do everyday. By the way, I have a youtube thing at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgvSAugTmyRTBm_ThLQurJg and a blog at http://onwarddown.blogspot.com/ I wanted to post this on my facebook, but I am stepping back from telling people in real life. I don't need to hear their secondhand horror stories.

Sorry for the typos. I'm on my phone and I'm simply too lazy to go back and correct them.

I do track my macros on mfp. Thank you Beaglelover, I'm a beagle louver, too. JMSCOUT6, My insurance requires a five month diet before they will approve the sleeve or any other WLS. They also require an ekg, chest xrays, a sleep study, blood work, an upper endoscopy, a psycological evaluation and a meeting with a nutritionist. Today is my psych and my NUT appt is on Thursday. Then I'm just finishing my diet and doing bloodwork. My diet is supervised through a hospital life style program. I get a lot of support from them.

Sounds like you are doing really well! Congratulations!

YES! I am scheduled for February 18th! Doesn't it seem like a lifetime away? It's twelve weeks today for me. I am scared and excited, but mostly terrified of my weigh-in appointments. They are all at night and last month I gained. I am afraid that I won't get insurance approval. It seems like my period coincide with the weighins. How is everyone doing on the insurance required diet? I even wrote letters to all of my kids in case I croak on the table. But really, I don't think that will happen. I am trying to go into this in the best shape that I can. It's hard, though.

By the way, I swim 35 minutes of hard laps every day, do weighted squats (only 20) and do a 12 minute seated aerobic routine three times a week. Forgot to add that exercise stuff in there...

My surgery is in mid-February and I have done three weighins so far at my hospital program. The last one really threw me, because I was up two pounds. I mean,I was just starting a period and it doesn't help that the weighins are all at night. So this month started out pretty well and I am keeping faithful to my log, but the last week I have been just giving in to the carbs. I am having a heck of a time sticking to 1400 cals a day and I am getting crabby and nasty. I keep asking myself if I want to do this or if I just want to give it up and die fat. It's a long haul and I am really worn out. I have 15 days to lose the two pounds (which I think are now FOUR pounds, according to my scale). 1. How did you manage to get through the insurance mandated diet and be sane at the same time? (Note: I am allergic to dairy, soy, whey and due to diverticular disease, can't eat nuts, seeds, corn, etc.) 2. What is the best way for me to take my morning weight, which is always lower than evening weight and carry that forward on the weighin day? Should I not eat for that day? I have two more scheduled weighins, Dec 9 and January 9th. I meet with the dietician on Dec 4th and she might weigh me then. Can I wear a bathing suit? Weigh in naked? HELP!!

I was excited, thinking I had gotten "an appointment to talk to the surgeon", but what I actually got - and it's tomorrow - is an appointment to attend an introductory lecture by the surgeon. The office staff won't even discuss what comes next, I guess because it's so individual. Oh well, everyone has to start someplace. I have a list of questions to take with me. On the bright side, I have been super conscious of my chewing, since I have been reading on here how you have to relearn how to chew your food really, really, REALLY thoroughly and it has been helping my digestion. Who knew? Jan

That's great that they don't make you jump through hoops!

I'm so sorry! How disappointing that would be. Let's hope that you get your surgery soon and no more setbacks.

I also just starting. I have upmc insurance and just sent in my forms for a bariatric consult. Losing weight has been doable for me but I can't keep it off. I'm 280 @ 5'8" BMI of 42.7. My insurance has a six month supervised diet requirement also. What happens if I lose below 41 bmi?

Thank you all for the words of advice. My sister is a former gyn surgeon. She pulverized her right wrist in a fall and is now a fiction writer, but even she said that this sounds like the right move for me since she had seen me lose this weight so many times just to regain it. She's pretty conservative - medically and I was surprised to hear it. I guess I always knew it was coming - having to lose weight for heath reasons rather than just for hating my body shape. And it's true that I can lose this weight without surgery but it's going to come right back on. Forty years have shown me this. Jan

Hi, I am new here, 49 year old, mother of six, ages 31, 29, 27, 15, 14 (son who has autism) and 10. Yeah. I have a hard time stopping. But my husband had a vasectomy - so no more kids. Anyway, I lost 120 pounds on the diet drug Meridia and lost my gallbladder, had a miscarriage, gained everything back. I just couldn't go back to dieting. Fast forward seven years and now I am 280 lbs and have diverticulitis. I have had four attacks in a year and the only rememdy is a bowel resection, which they can't do because of all the weight that I carry on my torso. I look nine months pregnant. My surgeon, who does not do gastric surgeries, told me that there is too high a risk of doing the resection until I lose 100 pounds. He said he recommended the gastric sleeve. I am allergic to milk and soy. eggs are problematic, as they give me the runs. I can't eat nuts, seeds or things that don't dissolve - because of the diverticulitis. Any words of wisdom? I went through the online orientation tonight and faxed off my information to the bariatric clinic at McGee Hospital in Pittsburgh. I am not really scared - yet. When you are already resigned to having your colon out, having your stomach reduced dramatically is not such a stretch. There are already so many foods that I can't eat due to the diverticulitis that I don't mind a restricted diet. I just want to feel better, stronger. Not be the fat lady. I want my younger kids to know me as someone other than the morbidly obese person they have always known.