Hey everyone so today I found out that my BMI is 42.2 and I am eligible for lap band surgery. My insurance requires a 6 month diet supervision. I'm not sure what that means. Is it supervision of a doctor or what? Someone please enlighten me

Yes, it means you'll have to be supervised by and report to your doctor while doing a 6 month diet. He'll tell you which diet to follow, too.

Thank you so much

Thank you so much

I had to do a 3 month supervised diet....I did weight watchers and went to my doctor monthly for weigh ins and talk to him about my diet and exercise.

My insurance didn't require that but the one I had before did. I had to write down everything I ate and see a nutritionist on visits so she could tell me what I was eating wrong and guide me.

Everyone is different. I have United Healthcare and they required 6mths of Dr. visits and 6mths with nutritionist. My nutritionist put me on my diet, went over a lot of information, portion control, exercise, what to do when craving stuff... very helpful. When I see my Dr. he just wants to know what I am doing to lose weight and that's about it, less than 15min. lol. btw, my insurance would not take weight watchers or anything like that, that is why I had to see a nutritionist. Good Luck!

My insurance required a medically supervised 6 month diet, within 2 years of surgery...the reason they required this is because.....

The surgery is a last resort, after attempts at traditional dieting have been tried, and failed....BUT the insurance co. did not want to simply take my word for it....they required something official..signed off by a Dr. complete with progress notes, graphs, etc, showing, for the record, that will go into my file, that I did make an attempt at a good structured diet.

On this 6 month diet, I started out good, lost weight for the first 4 months, then "fell off the wagon" like I have done with every diet I have attempted, and started to gain the weight back...

I felt guilty, but was reassured that if I was any good at it, why would I need weight loss surgery???

For me, WLS is not a diet, it was corrective surgery inhibiting me from doing what I could not do on my own...I could not stop overeating....WLS put an end to that....and now I have achieved what I could never have done before, and keep it off permanently...