Has anyone been required to do the 6 month supervised and lost enough weight that disqualifies them for surgery?

Has anyone "thrown" their supervised diet to still maintain qualification for surgery?

I understand the idea of the diet is to prove that you can follow a restricted diet, but what if you lose too much to still qualify to have surgery??

Personally, I am just over the qualifying mark - so to lose 20 or 30 lbs may put me under all the requirements....how scary is that???

I asked that at a seminar once. She basically told me to tank the diet, and just lose a very little. Nice, huh?

I was just 38 BMI and not 100 pounds overweight when I started my venture. I found out I had to have 6 months supervised diet before qualifying. Okay, so what does THAT mean? I CAN lose weight (I never said I couldn't)...but I cannot KEEP it off. So what's a 6 month diet going to do for me? Show I can lose weight? I can TELL you that. Then I lose 20 pounds and come back and I am way too far under the cut-off to qualify for surgery. Or what if I don't lose a thing? Do they then decide I can't qualify because I have no self-discipline? It's kindof a catch-22. I'm not sure what exactly it is they are trying to prove by this. Suffice it to say, I self-payed. I wasn't about to go through hell for 6 months only to be turned down.