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Recently met with a surgeon and will be meeting with a dietician for next 6 months. I'm ready to have my life back and hope all my medical issues go away. I'm very excited and determined to make this life change. Now I just have to send all my bottles of moscato to my sister so I won't be tempted ha ha.

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May I ask what insurance you have I'm curious to know what the requirements are for different insurances... I have health alliance connect...

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May I ask what insurance you have I'm curious to know what the requirements are for different insurances... I have health alliance connect...

I have Health Alliance Connect also. Ice only been with them less than 90 days. They are one of 3 managing healthcare companies that took over most of Illinois states Medicaid recipients. They have told me that some of my meds are not covered because of cost. They suggested others, and thankfully they work well for me. So far, they have honored the surgery approval I received before they took over most medicaid programs in Illinois.

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Recently met with a surgeon and will be meeting with a dietician for next 6 months. I'm ready to have my life back and hope all my medical issues go away. I'm very excited and determined to make this life change. Now I just have to send all my bottles of moscato to my sister so I won't be tempted ha ha.

Happy you are going to take back your life back your life ????! I've been there-done that 6 month pre op evaluation and behavior modification. It may seem long and trying at times, but it actually teaches you to eat mindfully; slow down, small bites, good Protein choices. I loved all my dietician appts! The Nutritionists rock in my opinion ????!! They are you greatest resource. You can do it! Keep that enthusiasm burning bright ????

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May I ask what insurance you have I'm curious to know what the requirements are for different insurances... I have health alliance connect...

I actually have Blue Cross Blue Shield through my husbands job. Truly it's the workplace that decides if the insurance can cover such a thing from what a rep at BCBS told me

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Recently met with a surgeon and will be meeting with a dietician for next 6 months. I'm ready to have my life back and hope all my medical issues go away. I'm very excited and determined to make this life change. Now I just have to send all my bottles of moscato to my sister so I won't be tempted ha ha.

Happy you are going to take back your life back your life ????! I've been there-done that 6 month pre op evaluation and behavior modification. It may seem long and trying at times, but it actually teaches you to eat mindfully; slow down, small bites, good Protein choices. I loved all my dietician appts! The Nutritionists rock in my opinion ????!! They are you greatest resource. You can do it! Keep that enthusiasm burning bright ????

Thank you

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This is a closed/secret group for everyone who is going to have bypass surgery in February 2016!

We would LOVE to have you join in wit us! Just go to Facebook and search my name LaNae Davis Petersen, send me a friend request. I can then send you an invite to secret page and then I'll remove you back off my friends list :)

It's meant to be a positive group who we can all be going through the same things at the same tim on this journey! The goals will be to provide support, bounce questions off each other, have somewhere safe to share on the days that aren't so great, and share our victories on this journey!

MOST importantly it's all confidential, unless you are in this group people can't see the group, who's in it or what the posts are.

May I ask what insurance you have I'm curious to know what the requirements are for different insurances... I have health alliance connect...

This is a closed/secret group for everyone who is going to have bypass surgery in February 2016!

We would LOVE to have you join in wit us! Just go to Facebook and search my name LaNae Davis Petersen, send me a friend request. I can then send you an invite to secret page and then I'll remove you back off my friends list :)

It's meant to be a positive group who we can all be going through the same things at the same tim on this journey! The goals will be to provide support, bounce questions off each other, have somewhere safe to share on the days that aren't so great, and share our victories on this journey!

MOST importantly it's all confidential, unless you are in this group people can't see the group, who's in it or what the posts are.

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    • Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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    • Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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