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Goals

Fit comfortably in an airplane seat.

140 People
 in progress, 
100 People
 achieved this

Get off of insulin!!

3 People
 in progress, 
2 People
 achieved this

Get approved for surgery

36 People
 in progress, 
74 People
 achieved this

Weigh below 250... (baby steps)

17 People
 in progress, 
19 People
 achieved this

Be able to dance, walk, stand, climb stairs, and exercise without pain.

89 People
 in progress, 
33 People
 achieved this
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  • Comment by Randall Culpepper on 4/16/08 5:13 am
    Hi Angel! Welcome to Obesity Help and the Alabama Board! Prayers and good thoughts are with you as you begin your Journey. What a journey it is too! Your thoughts are normal and we all have been at your point of thinking. God bless you as you travel this road. We are all here for you!
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Setbacks?
posted on 4/18/08 3:14 am
I've been looking online at  my insurance company's website for information on their criteria for qualifying for gastric bypass surgery.  I've been reading everything that I can get my eyes on about insurance criteria here and there, but was never able to actually find the criteria set forth by my individual insurance company.  This morning, I found it. 

According to the criteria that has been set forth by my insurance company, my medically documented BMI has to have been over 40 (over 35 with co-morbid conditions) for at least three years.  It used to be five years, but they have since revised it.  The problem?  I know that my BMI has been at or above at least 35 for well over three years, but before I married my husband I didn't have insurance.  When I didn't have insurance, I didn't go  to the doctor very often at all, so I'm not sure that I have medical documentation of my weight. 

This is extremely frustrating.  People hoping to have WLS already have to jump through hoops to get approved by their insurance companies, and the waiting period for approval isn't exactly short.  In order to gain approval, I have to have completed the six (actually seven, as the first month doesn't count) month physician supervised diet within a year before applying for approval.  I may go through all of this and have to turn around and do it all over again because I do not have enough of a medically documented history of obesity. 

At this point, I want to cry.  Instead, I am going to call the doctor that I was seeing before my current primary care physician, and ask what I have to do to get a copy of my medical records from them.  I don't think that they can keep them from me.  Once I get those, I'll be able to see how far back my obesity has been documented, and whether or not I should proceed with my seven month requirements, or wait until I am positive I have three years of medically documented obesity.

Pick yourself up, Angel.  You can't let yourself get knocked down this easily. 


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