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Hello everyone. I am new to this site, just joinednitbrecently while I was waiting on my insurance. I just got my date. I am scheduled for Nov. 8th. Super excited for this next step.

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Hello and congratulations on your surgery date.

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Hello and congratulations on your surgery date. People on here are very helpful and eager to answer any questions you may have. I filled my waiting days reading back pages of this forum. So much knowledge is stored in these pages. Let us know how you get on

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Congrats! I just got my surgery date too. November 16

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Thanks guys. The wait for my insurance approval felt like it was forever. Happy to be ready to move on.

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Congrats! I just got mine also, January 10th (I requested to have it put off to after the first of the year).

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8 minutes ago, Merida said:

Congrats! I just got mine also, January 10th (I requested to have it put off to after the first of the year).

I considered that because indidnt want to put extra burden on the family and kids as we start the holidays, but i am so close to my out of pocket maximim for insurance that it would be half the cost to have it now.

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Our insurance year goes July 1-June 30. I should have the deductible met before surgery and then just have the out of pocket. I know most insurances go Jan 1-Dec 31st, so they wanted me to get in on Dec 6th but I just wanted to have one last holidays with the family where I can have a whole piece of pumpkin pie or scoop of stuffing ;)

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      tl:dr at bottom,
      I could use some advice. I went to see my dietician today (not a bariatric surgery dietician, I can explain why I am seeing her if you want to know). She knows I am going to have weight loss surgery as long as I hit the goal weight my insurance told me I need to be at. I have to be at the goal weight by June 24, 2023, in order for my insurance to pay for my surgery.
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      The Dietician told me I needed to eat more protein, which honestly I struggle with. she said I needed 150 grams!!  I said are you kidding? that seems like a lot.  She used my weight to come up with this number. 
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      tl:dr- should I be eating enough protein to support a 300lb person or should I be eating protein for a "normal" sized person? AND should I trust the Doctors scale more so than the Dietician's scale? 
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