thejiffer

Echoing rolosmom7...I got it off the Unjury website (unjury.com)

unjury also has a "starter kit" that includes samples of 5 different flavors (2 packs of each flavor) for about $20. The chicken soup flavor is in there. It also has a shaker bottle and a thermometer to help you keep from overheating the chicken soup one. I haven't gotten mine yet, but it's on the way. I'm kind of skeeved out by the idea of a warm Protein shake, so I'm interested to try the chicken one too.

I kept doing them, but not with the primary goal of keeping on track. My insurance required 6 consecutive months of PCP visits, and I was told they would be very strict about that - if I missed a month, even by just a few days, it would knock me back to the beginning and the six month count would start all over again. I was paranoid that after all my paperwork was submitted, insurance would come back and say something was coded wrong for my month 2 visit (or some other nit-picky thing like that), and was afraid that if I stopped going every month I'd get knocked back for something dumb like that. TL;DR: I kept going every month until I had the insurance approval in hand because I was paranoid.

-Edited- Totally misread and thought your surgery was today. Hope all goes smoothly for you tomorrow!

I had to do 6 consecutive months of doctor-supervised diet and exercise with my primary care doc, one nutritionist meeting, a psych eval, a meeting with a nurse practitioner from the surgeon's office, get a letter of recommendation from my PCP, write my own letter about why I felt like I needed the surgery, and meet with the surgeon before any of my info was submitted to insurance. Now that I've been approved by insurance and a date has been set, I'll have four hours of nutrition workshops and a support group meeting about a month before surgery. Two weeks before the surgery date I'll have bloodwork (including an arterial blood gas which I'm not looking forward to), chest x-ray, abdominal ultrasound, a physical and health history with an NP from the surgeon's office, and another meeting with the surgeon to go over the hospital stay and early recovery.

I'm scheduled for December 15th! Just requested to join the FB group.