Hello,

After numerous months of dieting, and seeing no results, I decided to look into the lap band surgery. I have all the requirements for the surgery except the 6 month supervised dieting. Does anyone have any suggestions on where to go besides Weight Watchers? I'm new to this, and I have no idea where to go. Is there any way I can do something online? Can I go to a hospital or my own doctor?

I used my own family practice doctor...my insurance asked for a physician assisted weight loss program for 6 months...so every month I went in and got weighed and did all the thigns insurance requested.

I couldn't do weight watchers or anything like that...insurance wouldn't view those as "real" diets. Look into exactly what your insurance requires...

Start with visiting a surgeon's seminar (or two or three). Once you've chosen a surgeon, his/her office will be able to guide you.

My supervision involved checking in with the surgeon each month. My insurer had specific parameters for loss during that time period. There was no specific diet that I had to follow during that time--just had to reach a certain specified number of pounds lost. (For those with 3-month periods, a 6-pound loss was required; for those with 6-month periods, a 10-pound loss was required.

Good luck!