Thin4Anisha

That is so wonderful!! What great news to get! What insurance do you have and is it through your employer?

That is wonderful! Keep us posted on your progress, it gives me so much hope to see how others are doing

That makes sense, if nothing else a cab ride. Thanks for your input. It makes me feel a whole lot better about this. She is the most important factor of this whole thing. I love this forum!

I am still in the beginning stages, figuring out insurance and what not. The biggest fear that I have is that I am a single mother to a five year old little girl. I do not have anyone to help me with her or myself after the surgury. Is it something I will be able to manage on my own with my daughter? I was raised in foster care and have no family to speak of, no close friends and her father has never been in the picture. Any ideas or experiences would be greatly appreciated. She is a very good little girl, very smart and very advanced mentally. She has been very good in the past when I have gotten really sick and I have thought if we could just have a few quite days at home it might work.:biggrin:

I have been reading and educating myself on this site for the last few weeks and just now decided to register. Here is a bit about me (this is long, sorry).. 24 years old, single mother to a beautiful 5 year old daughter, work in the legal field full time, full time student and am ready to start the process to getting my band!!! My problem, I chose at the end of last year to not sign up for my employers (Farmers Ins.) health insurance (UHC) and chose to just use the plan I am still under from my parents. To save money. Now that I have made the decision to get the band I learn their insurance does not cover the band but my employers did! Do I really have to wait until January 09 to get this when I can enroll again!? If I have to I figure I can start the 6 month doctor diet in April and be done with that so on January 1, 2009 I can submit paperwork for the surgery. Does this sound like a plausible plan to anyone. I am obsessed with getting a band. I dream about it ever night. I feel that for ONCE IN MY LIFE there is something that will honestly make a difference. I currently am 5'6 at 270 pds (BMI 44). I have been moderatly overweight since I was 15 and that problem exploded when I became pregnant at 18, and have only lost a significant amount of weight once, on Fastin (the other, legal, half of phen phen) where I lost 65 pds and got down to 165. I regained the weight while still on the d*#^ pill and have failed at every other diet i've tried. Slim fast, keeping calories at 1200, exercise, no carb, low carb, and even at one point only ate a salad for every meal for 4 weeks and gained 10 pounds. Sigh... I eat a lot of good, healthy food - rarely any fast food, rarely ever red meat, I quit baking 4 years ago (to my daughters dismay), rarely eat any sweets - I just eat A LOT of the food I do eat and I think the control of the band is EXACTLY what I need. Anyone else experience anything like this? My BF of 5 years cant understand why I don't just cut back my food intake to 1/2-1 cup of food a few times a day, as it will probably be one the band, now and loose the weight. For a man that can eat a half a pan of lasagna in one sitting you would think he would understand hunger a little better. He may have to be one of the "changes" made to my lifestyle when this whole thing goes into effect... Any support or knowledge and words of encouragement anyone has would be so very much appreciated. I have no one I can talk to about this who is not judgmental and thinks I should "do it on my own", that obviously hasn't worked in the past. I have so many questions about the before's and the after's. Anyone?....