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Goals

Fit comfortably in an airplane seat.

141 People
 in progress, 
100 People
 achieved this

Get off of insulin!!

3 People
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2 People
 achieved this

Get approved for surgery

36 People
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74 People
 achieved this

Weigh below 250... (baby steps)

17 People
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19 People
 achieved this

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

89 People
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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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Thank God for Small Favors...
posted on 4/19/08 9:12 am
After I wrote my post yesterday, I logged on to my insurance company's website with my username and password and started looking back through the claims that have been filed with them on my behalf.  It only shows the last 150 claims total (not per person insured), so I was praying that I would be able to see back to 2005.   I scrolled through pages and pages of claims.  Finally, I came to what I had been hoping and praying for. There was a claim that was submitted by my former primary care physician from August of 2005.  Yay!!

I don't think I've gotten that excited over the thought of a doctor visit in a long time.  As I stared at the screen, I called the (former) doctor's office and asked the receptionist if I could put in a request for my medical records from their office, dating back to 2005.  She informed me that there was a 24-48 hour turnaround, and then she asked for my name and date of birth.  I gave the information to her, and she pulled me up on the computer.  To my surprise, the next thing that she said to me was "I'll just start printing these off as I go, since I have you on the phone". 

After talking to her, I got ready to go, and my husband and I drove to the doctor's office to pick up the records.  When I walked in, she had them ready for me.   I loved that doctor's staff, they were always awesome, it was just that he would not listen to me as a patient, and often ended up putting me on medication for ailments that I didn't suffer from.  I was really upset when I decided to find another doctor, because his staff at that office are genuine one-of-a-kind people that are hard to come by. 

I rushed home after picking up the medical records so that I could quickly look them over and make sure that my weight was recorded.  I saw my weights and put them in to the BMI calculator to make sure that my BMI was high enough in 2005 to classify me as morbidly obese.  As per my insurance company's guidelines, I have to be able to prove with medical documents that I have been morbidly obese for at least the last three years.   When the calculator was done, I said a final prayer and then scrolled down to look at the calculation.  I barely made it.  My BMI from 2005 was 40.1 - a far cry from what I am at now.  I've gained over 50 pounds in the last three years. 

I was rather certain that I was morbidly obese in 2005, but I was also very concerned that I wouldn't be able to prove it with medical documentation as required.  It just reaffirms my belief that if God brings you to it, God will see you through it.  Thank God for small favors- he gives them to us each and every day.  Sometimes I get so caught up worrying about every little detail that I can't see the forest for the trees.  I just need to stop and realize each of the miracles and favors that he gives me and those around me each day.

Next on the agenda- quitting smoking. I know that I have quite some time (at least seven months) before I'll be having surgery, but I want to quit as soon as possible.  The  sooner I quit , the healthier I'll be.  Also, quitting now as opposed to the required two months before the surgery will reduce my chance of complications even more than if  I were to quit two months before the surgery.  I'm not sure what I will set as my quit date yet, but it'll be within the next 30 days. 



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