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lewisfamilytexas

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  1. Well I've been going through the process to get my lapband as of jan....but still waiting, because my insurance...blue cross blue shield, they need a 5 year weight history and because i'm missing the first year, i have to wait till jan to get my surgery, and thats not even to get my surgery thats to have the surgeon know ok its time to send in the paperwork its been 5 years of weight history....and then i don't know how long it takes for them to approve the surgery, but i hope its soon, i've already waited so long and been through so much, and now i also have a hernia that i'm going to have taken care of at the same time as my lapband, luckily the surgeon said he can do them at the same time, then i don't have to go in for 2 separate surgeries....uggg....I'm just getting really excited about getting started, but also irritated that my insurance is making me jump through all these hoops to get approved.....I've been over 200 pounds since i was in 5th grade, i'm currently 363, but yet cause i did not have that 1 year of weight history because it was when i did not have medical insurance i have to wait....its such a pain.....
  2. well today makes it one week down for the 6 month diet....Been off sodas for 1 week, oh man and the cravings, but i never gave in.....I'd enjoy the occational glass of hot chocolate which helped my throat while i was sick, and the occational glass of fresh juiced juice, but no sodas, and no carbonated waters, my mother in law found this flavored water thats not carbonated fruit 2 O and its pretty good, we'll have to get some for our house.....My husband doesn't like the no sodas part....but i really want him to try to loose some weight too, we both really need to, he hates water though, he's been trading his high calorie sodas with high calorie non carbonated sodas....so still sodas, but he didn't think they counted cause they weren't carbonated, he didn't even go for the diet ones......like its not hard for me, man i love my soda, but it never really made me feel good, I'd get stomach aches from drinking it, but yet i still drank it....I'm proud of myself for not cheating and drinking soda this week, yay to me
    I'm slightly confused with my blue cross blue shield of texas....we were under the assumption that I needed five years of weight history, and a 6 month diet, along with the nutrionist, and psychologist, but the criteria they gave me at the seminar didn't mention the five year weight history and the 6 month diet said 3 monthes, and then i got really confused when i went in for my consult and the surgeon and dietician were saying 6 month diet and then the nurse came in saying 3 month diet, i really wish i had asked, but it didn't really occur to me till i got home and read over the paper work again....well my second appointment is in a couple weeks i'm sure i can ask about it...although even if it is now only 3 monthes, i'd still have to wait the 6 or at least 4-5 to be able to save up the $4200 we need to cover the surgeons fees.
  3. I got to kill 3 birds with one stone, When i went to the seminar wednesday i also got to do my first visit with the surgeon and my first visit with the dietician to get started on my 6 month diet. She started me on some weight loss pills. The surgeon said it didn't matter if i lost any weight as long as i went to the dietician and got weighed and talked with her once a month, I'm still going to try to loose some weight before surgery because i'm sure that would be better for me and a good start. The surgeon told me I"m suppose to weigh 105 with my height, but gave me a more realistic goal, and said after surgery to aim for 225, which would be a loss of 60% of my excess weight over teh 105. I also found out that the insurance won't cover the entire thing, we have to pay 4200 out of pocket, for the surgeon and surgeion assistant, everything else is covered. But i'm sure by the 6 monthes we'll hopefully be able to save enough. I"m really excited to get started on this journey. And i'm glad my family all seems to be on board with me having the surgery, and everyone is very supportive, especially my hubby. My mom is the only one that seems a bit iffy about it and keeps asking questions...

  4. Poison

    · lewisfamilytexas · 12/29/2009 07:45

    Ok, well tonight at almost midnight i got a little hungry.....which was a bad bad thing.....i basically poisoned myself or at least thats what i told my husband it was......i ate dorritoes with bean dip and then followed that with 3 small snickers bars, sure it might have tasted good going down but oh boy after about 10 minutes or so my stomach started killing me and i felt just awful, and i asked my husband why do i poison myself like this.....its almost an hour and a half later and my stomach is still aching.....been drinking water to sooth it a little......I should have stuck with the bannanna, 1 strawberry and 1 blackberry that i had before the bad stuff....but no....i didn't....bad me....:tt2:

  5. Sodas

    · lewisfamilytexas · 12/29/2009 07:38

    Well my first lapband seminar is wednesday, and i decided to quit sodas before my first actual appointment because i know i'm going to have to go on a 6 month diet it'd be a good thing to stop sodas now and i won't be able to have them after the surgery, i've quit sodas before....the first few days are basically hell....withdrawals ugg..headaches..ugg...no fun, but lately i haven't really had many sodas anyways, i just gotta get used to drinking water again, haven't been drinking as much water as i should....my husband is going to be quiting sodas with me so i won't have to do it on my own, i'm sure he'll probably cheat while he's at work...but we will not have sodas in our home, and i also let my mother in law know that we'll be quiting sodas so she doesn't need to keep our favorites stocked up anymore, that instead if she could have bottled water for us that would be great....and she was glad i told her today cause she was running low on mine and my husbands favorites and she was going to buy more....so i told her just in time....we decided friday the new year is a good time to quit, but i've already started drinking more water....

  6. A Little About Me

    · lewisfamilytexas · 12/24/2009 09:46

    My name is Leslie, i've been obese since i was a little kid, i weight over 200 pounds starting in fifth grade, never really had any friends, kids were always so mean...but my family was worse......my own grandparents don't even have pictures of me up on the walls in their home, and they only have 2 grandchildren.....and pictures everywhere of my lesser obese cousin....it really saddens me when i visit them and see that....when i was 18 and graduated high school i decided i wanted to loose weight, i stopped drinking sodas, and ate alot less, and only once a day, and stopped eating sweets, and i lost 80 pounds, weigthed about 250, was able to fit into blue jeans that didn't have ellastic that was like the best feeling, but it wasn't good enough for my famiily, they told me i had to keep loosing, and not to eat this and not to drink that, and them harrassing me just got me down, my entire life they harrassed me on my weight and they couldn't have just been proud of me that i lost 80 pounds in only 3 mothes, so i got what i wanted out of the weight loss ( a boyfriend) and then started eating and drinking whatever i wanted again, and gained all the weight back, luckily not right away, it was about a year or so before it all came back, and as i was in and out of relationships the weight would come on and off, i'd loose weight when i wasn't in a relationship and gained weight by being comfortable in a relationship, of course most of the guys i went out with were also overweight so they liked sodas, sweets, and fast food restaraunts, not a friend to someone trying to loose weight.....but then i met my husband moved from san antonio to dallas after knowing him 1 week, and after 1 month living with him i gained 30 pounds, weighing 300 when i met him, we lived with his parents the first month, and they had sodas galore in their house, and all the sweets you can imagine, and every chip available, i love them to death but the temptations in their house are awful to someone who needs to loose weight, so yea i started drinking sodas again, before i met my hubby i was off sodas for a while, and the first 30 pounds came fast....then we got our own place and started trying for a baby, we weren't having any luck getting pregnant, i wasn't having regular periods, i haven't had regular periods since junior high, so after we married in nov we went to the doc to find out why we weren't getting pregnant, and after being treated horribliy by the obgyn telling us there was "no magic pill i can give you to get pregnant" those are her exact words, and not what we were looking for......we had tests done....found out i had a thyroid problem, but oddly enough i had the thyroid problem that affects skinny people, which happens to also be the thyroid problem that the meds you have to take are not safe to get pregnant on, so that left us with only one option, to kill off my thyroid and have me become hypothryoid....so that happened about a year after we met plus a few monthes, and i was bed ridden for about 3 monthes, in horrible pain after i had my throid killed off waiting for the meds to level off and have normal thyroid levels....i could barely move, my neck would cramp up my back would cramp up, it hurt to lay down, to sit up , to do anything so this was another 30 pounds added to my weight gain.....so now the biggest i've ever been in my entire life and can't do some simple things that i used to be able to do i'm so misserable.....then all the meds i'm taking to get my hormones in check to give me periods and to make me ovulate cause me to gain another 20 pounds......so now i'm really uncomfortable, i mean i was always used to being a big girl but 80 pounds on top of what i was used to being is ridiculous and so uncomfortable, i told my husband a few weeks ago if the clomid didnt work this month to make me ovulate that i want to have the lapband surgery, and of course the clomid did not work.....so i talked with my obgyn and she said having the lapband surgery would be a very good idea.....and go figure a week later and i have my first period on my own in probably about 2 years, my husband was thinking about trying just in case i ovulate on my own too......but i told him no, i decided i want to have this surgery, i don't want to try till after i have this surgery and get the ok to start trying.....it was just so depressing all those monthes trying and thinking maybe this time....and then getting a negative pregnancy test, i just want to feel like me again, and if i loose more then the 80 pounds to get me back to the "me weight" the weight i'm used to, then thats just an extra bonus.....

  7. LapBand Seminar

    · lewisfamilytexas · 12/18/2009 22:50

    Well me and my husband have been trying to get pregnant for almost 4 years now, with no luck, we tried clomid, and that never made me ovulate, and my obgyn wanted to refer me to a fertility specialist to do injections for fertility, and i asked her if she recomended having the lapband surgery to help me get pregnant, and she thought that was a good idea, so we're pausing trying to get pregnant right now, and i signed up for a lapband seminar on dec. 30 when my husband will be off for christmas. Hopefully there we can sign up for my first appointment with the lapband surgeon. I'm 382 right now, and 5 foot 1, and misserable, so i would so love to loose weight, its just been really hard on my own but hopefully with the lapband it will help. 1 goal i have is to fit into a pair of blue jeans (without ellastic) that would be so awesome.

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