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I think it depends on your starting weight and BMI. If you are close to 40, it might be a possibility but those in the high 40s and 50s prob not.

Honestly, i didnt try to lose weight in my 6 months... it case that was an issue.

I dont know what your stats are but i think 4lbs a month, while a good start, isnt going to put a huge dent in your weight unless you have a low bmi.

I am bcbs Mn I'm 15lbs down and 5 months in. I'm only waiting on insurance approval now. No one has said anything about how much I lost and not being covered. If anything it shows you can make the changes to be successful.... Good luck on ur journey

The more support you have threw this journey the better. Surgery is not the easy way out. It is a lot of hard work. My family likes to gossip and I know if I didn't tell them I was having the surgery they would gossip I'm on drugs and that would be worst. I wish you the best of luck.

Thank you so much everyone.. I will try to go cold turkey and drink lots of Water and take Excedrin. I never realized how much it has a hold of me till I needed to quit.
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If you have worked with your doctor on weight loss then that is a weight loss program. You doctor needs to submit that you have worked with them over the years on weight loss program.

While I'm not in California, I had the same thing happen. I've worked for years with my doctor and her nutritionist, but my insurance needed something more. I did my six months with my bariatric doctors office and now I am FIVE days away from having surgery. I would say keep up the fight, but don't delay on starting the Six month plan.
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I had to use the nutritional people in my bariatric office.

I'm having to do 6mths of Dr supervised weight loss for my surgeon, but he also said most insurance requires it now
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I'm starting the 6 month program. I believe tomorrow is day 1... so I'm 6 months or so they will submit the request for approval to my insurance company. I think...
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Similar to what others have said, despite having years of weight loss attempts I had to do another 6 months of medically supervised weight loss to meet the insurance requirement. I'm also Anthem BCBS but in Indiana. I was pretty ticked off when I found out I had to wait even longer to get surgery. Luckily my bariatric program offers this so I was able to get started with them pretty quickly. Once I completed my 6 months and they submitted I had an approval in under 2 weeks and have surgery scheduled for Jan 25.

Stupid auto correct.. Lol. Yes snacks! Sent from my VS995 using the BariatricPal App

Stupid auto correct.. Lol. Yes snacks! Sent from my VS995 using the BariatricPal App

Do a meal prep. When you go out put some healthy snakes in your bag that way when he stops to get something you will have your snake ready. 9 pounds is so close. Watch your salts and flush your body with lots of Water. You got this!
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Instagram has a whole WLS community. There are people from every where on there.. Please check it out.. Its helped me
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They caused me to dump. The sugar was low but carbs I don't think were low. The salted caramel was the worst. Just a half did me in
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I tried them..good before surgery but taste so dry for me after. And since you can't drink while you eat..that was not good for me...
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The apple pie is pretty good.

Has any tried these? I am trying to get things ill need before surgery.
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Thank you so much everyone.. I will try to go cold turkey and drink lots of Water and take Excedrin. I never realized how much it has a hold of me till I needed to quit.
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Decaf worked for me for about a week. I went back to caffeinated, however I don't barely drink a cup of coffee a day. Its strange after surgery!
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I will be having surgery in a few weeks and in having the hardest time kicking caffeine. I am a tea drinker. I don't drink soda. Besides the awful headaches I feel like I can choke someone by the end of the day.. Any ideals how to cut it out?
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Probably. I don't drink soda. Haven't in years. Just coffee and tea. I totally get the acid in coffee thing. Early on your tummy can't handle the acid in coffee, but if you have cold brew it can. I'm almost 1.5 years out and since I am freezing this winter I basically drink black coffee all day, we'll for about 8 hours then I switch to hot Water. The first 9 month I only had cold brew because of the acid. You can warm cold brew up, but the cold brewing process doesn't produce the acid
I also want add that I never get caffeine withdrawal headaches. Most of the time when people think they are getting caffeine withdrawal headaches they are just dehydrated because they don't replace their normal caffeine liquids with water at the same amount.
Also another reason they say no caffeine is because they think most people load their caffeine with calories. You have to read between the lines, when I talked to my Dr about it, it is more about calories and appetite than it is about actual caffeine as a drug. When I convinced him that I don't add excessive calories to my caffeine drinks he was like okay.

I did a week of half coffee and half Decaf. And then I went to decaf. It was hard. But I'm so glad now that I got that monkey off my back. Just one more benefit. And one less thing to worry about.

Talk to your dr.
I flat out told my Dr I was not giving up caffeine. It doesn't make me hungry it does the opposite actually and I find it helpful for concentration for work.
My Dr agreed with me and didn't make me give it up. Before I could drink coffee post-op, I just took caffeine pills until 6 weeks. The I started with coffee.< /p>

I was hooked on diet pepsi. Now there's days I don't have any! What I did was gradually decrease the amount everyday. You will or at least I did get headaches at first. Good luck Sent from my SM-G930R4 using the BariatricPal App