LosingItIn08

Hi all. I'm brand new to this forum and have been so impressed with all of your weight loss successes and friendly advice. I was hoping you could help me with an insurance saga I've just uncovered. Long story short, but I've been working w/ UHC for the past several months to have mine & my husband's lap band procedures approved. We've jumped through ever hoop, and thought we were ready to submit for final surgery dates/approval/etc. So today, after spending 2.5 hours on the phone w/ UHC and getting the nastiest most unhelpful people imaginable, I finally got to a helpful person who told me that - oops - you need a 6 month physician supervised diet program. Now this wouldn't be a huge deal had they told me several months ago when I first started this journey - I'd be almost done by now! However, now I'm back to the starting board. I have a family member who is a physician and is willing to help us supervise our diets and go back a few months as he's been involved in the whole process, knows weights, etc. This is great but he hasn't done a medically supervised diet before. What I need your help on is this... Do any of you have a letter or progress notes that you'd be willing to share so that he can use a similar format? I just need to give him the basic idea of what he needs to write, what he needs to notate, etc. I would greatly appreciate it! If you could PM me, I could send you my email address. I have a fax as well. I am totally desperate and could not thank you enough. Thanks everyone in advance! Stefanie