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My journey began yesterday! My daughter, her best friend and I have tried everything! Diets, fasting, and the dreaded health clubs! Here I am over 230 pounds, my daughter over 240 and her best friend is over 250. The two girls are only 19 years of age! 
We go into healthclubs and people are looking like walking skeletons talking about how fat they are! Give us a break!!!!!!
I remember being embarrassed to tell people that I weighed 150!!!! Then I used to tell everyone that I weighed one something. I knew something was wrong when I could not tell them that any more!!! 
I am guilty everyday not even because of my own weight, but because people look at me and then my daughter and I feel that it is because of me that she is like this. The girls are so desperate to loose weight and we do not know where to go and/or how to get help!
We have extremely good insurance, I called the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois and they told me that the Lap Band surgery is covered! I am reading everyones profile and it scares us, because we think that we have to go to a doctor for five years or so in order to get approved. Why can we not just find one doctor's office that will do all of the paperwork for us and cut through the red tape? The representative at the insurance company stated that it would only take one to two weeks to get approved! 
I am tired of being treated differently at work because of my weight, being passed over for promotions, always being watched when I eat and the comments, the constant comments!!! 
I know that there is a doctor out there somewhere that will help us. Does any one have any suggestions???
