bayoulady

Congratulations on such a wonderful achievement. It is reading inspiring stories like these which help me to stay on track on a daily basis.

Just wondering if anyone has dealt with United Healthcare. I completed all the appointments they required last week and now am in wait mode.

Anyone who has had experience with them would be great to hear from you. I am open to hearing the positive along with the negative as I am hoping the wait is a short one.

Once all of my requirements were fufilled I received an approval letter 3 weeks after submission. Good luck with your approval!

Congrats! Any idea when your surgery date will be? You are probably 'dancing on the ceiling' today. The best is yet to come!

Ladies, once completelly healed I would like to start wearing a little something to hold it all in as I hopefully shrink away. I looked at the Spanx website but they were very pricey does anyone have any suggestions?

I have been fairly confident in having the sleeve until today. Today is my first day of preop diet. I am now questioning if I am going to be able to succeed with the sleeve. Do I have the will power to stick with my post op diet? I am fighting head hunger already. I am not scared of the surgery itself. I am scared that I will go back to my old habits.

Please tell me this is normal!!

Hey, I don't think that anyone on here has questions wheather or not it's the right thing to do. You'll be suprised how much better it will get each day. I wish you the best with your surgery.

Since I am still on a liquid diet, Thanksgiving was difficult this year. Since we don't have any family near us, we normally have Thanksgiving with two other transplant families. However, since I was still sore and could only eat liquids, we decided to only do our small family. My husband asked that I only cook his favorite, my crawfish stuffing and he'd do the rest. Only having to prepare one dish was great but how can you cook without tasting? That was difficult. Even though I didn't feel hungry, it felt almost like I was segregated since I couldn't take part in the meal with the rest of my family. At least things will be a little better for Christmas since I will be doing solid foods by then.

Well Congrats on your new sleeve! I was sleeved on the 17th so our journey's have begun at nearly the same. I hope it is a successfuly and learning experience for us both!

I'm sure my story is one that is far from being unique. I have been overwight since I was a child, and since I am currently, 38, that was quite a long while ago. I have spent so much money on trainers, classes, exercise equiptment, bootcamps, books, etc. that I feel that although I was an expert on HOW to lose weight, I just couldn't seem to DO it. As health care professional, people asked me to recommend something for weight loss at least once a week. As I tried to control myself from rolling my eyes, my mind screamed" REALLY?, Look at me, if there were some magic pill, surely I would be taking it!" I could get to the 40 pound mark, but after that, it seemed a done deal.

I never considered weight loss surgery until I realized how long it had been since I'd bought the last book, signed up for the last class, or touched that exercise equiptment. I realized that I had finally given up and that once this happened, I had slowly been getting bigger and bigger. At first, it was with sadness, that I approached, the idea. Then, after doing research, I realized that choosing WLS was not another step in giving up, it was finally a step in aquiring a tool which could permanently help me with my health.

Well, I finally was given this tool when I was sleeved on November, 17th. I hope to share my journey and hope that it will inspire others and the many members on this forum have inspired me.

There is no right or wrong in choosing weather or not to tell others. It's just what's best for that individual just like the choice to have the surgery in the first place. I have decided to stop the "haters" in their tracks. No need for a did she or didn't she Water cooler conversation. I have proudly told everyone that I was out on leave for weight loss surgery and then gave them the "You got somethin' to say?" look LoL. So far no takers.