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I have been on my preop surgery journey for 116 days!! I was doing really well. I was told my insurance requirement was 4 months of weight loss, weight checked by my MD each month. I had to lose 42lbs. I also had to go thru all the test, lab work, stress test, PYSC test, the whole Nine yards!! Well I did it and not only did I lose the 42 lbs. I was supposed to lose I lost 47! I was super excited and ready….. Then my PT advocate sends me an email she made a mistake, I have to do 6 months of weigh ins for my insurance so she will need two more months 'Thanks". I mean it was like so Nonchalant an casual like this means nothing! After everything it feels like a gut punch an now I’ve lost focus an I can’t lose a single pound an feel like I’m gaining. I’m down an don’t know how to regain my momentum!! I am terrified I am going to gain weight an then completely be told oh no sorry can not help you!! I know it is a mind set issue I am struggling an now I have a weigh in next Friday feeling terrible about it!!!!

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You can do it!! You not only did it once, you went beyond the goal and that’s awesome!! You can do it! Keep your eye on the prize!!!

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I'm so sorry, they can be so heartless sometimes! I got through all my appointments and then I couldn't get scheduled for surgery and no one told me why for over a month... turns out they were waiting for two docs to get in touch, but I didn't know that so I couldn't push my doc to call theirs!

You will have to look within yourself to keep your eye on the prize, I'm afraid. Remember this is not just changing your eating so you can get the surgery, it's changing your eating for the rest of your life! I try to remind myself of this when I'm ready to give up. (I'm not perfect though!)

You got this!

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I can totally understand being upset by them suddenly adding an extra two months when you already worked your ass off to get where you are. You just have to remind yourself on how far you've come and how close you are to getting your surgery. Two months is nothing! It flies by! I did the 6 month weigh in thing myself and due to my six months falling around Thanksgiving my surgery got knocked back due to them being overscheduled so, for me, it was actually 8 months from my first appointment to my surgery. I, however, wasn't given a set amount of weight to lose. I was just told not to GAIN weight. I choose to try to lose as much weight as I could though and to try to get myself into healthier eating habits before my surgery and I was proud that I'd lost 68 pounds during that time. Now I'm almost 18 months post op and time has flown by! Right now two months seems like forever, but it'll go by fast! Try not to be discouraged! You'll get there!

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I can understand you being upset after being told something else. Six months of a supervised diet is pretty common, though - I had to go through that.

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If you quit now, you'll end up right back where you began. And when you first began, you were desperate to be where you are right now.

Keep up your work. This is a life-long marathon.

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Don’t give up! You have made it so far and should be very proud of yourself! I had to do 6 months of weight-ins too and I will tell you the last two months go by pretty quickly.

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Just an Update, I had my 5 Month weigh in and I have now lost 57 lbs. 4 weeks to go an the. Hopefully an op Date. Thank you all for your encouraging words it helped a lot!!

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I got my approval from insurance today!! Yay now to get my date they’re calling this week!!!

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Glad to hear you are finally going to get a date. Good luck with your surgery.

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