My first consultation with the surgeon is Monday, July 28. I am right at the 40BMI. Going to eat lots this weekend to ensure I make the weight! I am only pre-diabetic, so that didn't count as a co-morbidity with my insurance (then I would have only needed a 35 BMI). I have Anthem BCBS of CA and supposedly they approve even if you are right at 40. Any suggestions? Wish me luck!

Salty foods on Sunday night and not too much water. Good luck!

Check your weight at home before you leave for your appointment. If you are good with your weight on your home scale, it should be fine at the doctor's office; their scales are always off to me and I weigh 4-5 lbs more at the office. Wear jeans or other clothing that's heavier than something like cotton.

Put your cell phone in your bra, wear your heaviest bra, wear two blouses, wear heavy shoes (really heavy shoes!), wear a shawl over your blouses, pin it with a big pin, wear a heavy necklace, don't pee for two hours prior to the weigh-in, drink two 16-ounce bottles of Water in the 30 minutes prior to the weigh-in.

Rolls of quarters or some other kind of weights in your bra will add a little. I had no co morbitities as was exactky at a 40 BMI so I always worried too. My surgeon told me to absolutely NOT lose any weight!

You guys are cracking me up!!

I, too was at 40, just barely. No co-morbidities. I realized that they made me slightly taller than I actually was. Go figure! So...Make sure you slouch.

5 lb ankle weights.

My sister-in-law did the ankle weights trick. It worked.

Cargo pants with lots of pockets filled with cell phones (including the one that was put down into a puddle of Water on the counter and doesn't work anymore). A jeans jacket. Heavy garden shoes.

Go in being honest, doing extra is only going to hurt you.

Ok How many of you REALLY did the things to put on extra weight? And dont they notice? I go in tomorrow for my 1st appointment, my BMI is under 40. Now I am totally freaking out. So frustrated about what to do.

I'm reading these posts and cracking up. I made sure i slouched a bit. Left my shoes on when i got weighed and took them off for my height check. Wore jeans and it was 90 degrees out and drank tons of water on the drive to my appt. It worked and good luck.

Lol, we spend our whole lives trying to lose weight, except at that first weigh-in. I was right at 41 BMW, so I stopped watching my weight about a week before, just to make sure.

I refuse to answer on the grounds that my answer may incriminate me.

I am not sure I am doing this right, I have been lurking around for several months but this is my first post.

I have had my surgeon's first consult & am currently seeing the dietitian (3 month insurance requirement), my question is: how do you deal with being at a 41bmi and still showing that you are 'compliant ' to the supervised diet without loosing too much as to not be approved?

Sorry if this is considered hijacking the thread, thanks any advise.

Woohoo! I slouched a bit and made the weight! So, the consult and nutritionist visit is done. Just need my psyc consult and doctor's clearance and I'm done!