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Topic: RE: Newby to BAF
GRAB THAT MEDICAL COVERAGE WLS OR NOT! You cannot predict your medical needs. Wishing you good health but we must be prepared. WLS coverage varies by state just as it does with private insurance.
This was an 8+ year decision for me. My DD whom I dragged to wls seminars grew up and had the VGB before I got the courage to have RNY. Like so many of us, I kept insisting I could do this with out wls.
There is no better or lesser option as long as you reach a healthy weight and stay there for life. Explore every option available to you. Surgical; non surgical; psychological; and treatment of eating disorders. Many of us are obese due to a complex combination of factors. We don't need to have all of the answers to loose the fat. As we loose weight and improve our health, we will learn the food related isssues we need to address as individuals. That is, if we are willing.
Please, please, please ask questions. Silly, serious, embarrrasing, whatever. Learn what you need to know. Get independent sources of information. Avoid the billion dollar weight loss snake oil industry as best possible. Learn and evaluate information in light of your life style, preferences, strenghts, and weaknessses. If you want permanant weight, loss this is a good starting point.
This was an 8+ year decision for me. My DD whom I dragged to wls seminars grew up and had the VGB before I got the courage to have RNY. Like so many of us, I kept insisting I could do this with out wls.
There is no better or lesser option as long as you reach a healthy weight and stay there for life. Explore every option available to you. Surgical; non surgical; psychological; and treatment of eating disorders. Many of us are obese due to a complex combination of factors. We don't need to have all of the answers to loose the fat. As we loose weight and improve our health, we will learn the food related isssues we need to address as individuals. That is, if we are willing.
Please, please, please ask questions. Silly, serious, embarrrasing, whatever. Learn what you need to know. Get independent sources of information. Avoid the billion dollar weight loss snake oil industry as best possible. Learn and evaluate information in light of your life style, preferences, strenghts, and weaknessses. If you want permanant weight, loss this is a good starting point.
LEE
on 9/25/12 10:09 am
on 9/25/12 10:09 am
Topic: RE: Feeling good here, How yall feeling?
Well you know i'm like a roller coaster so that means as high as I was that day I can be just as low if not lower the following day or week. So far i'm still doing good but I almost let the dam scale mess that up until I realized this morning that I have to take back the two pair of jeans I bought last month because they are way to big now. So i'm still smiling no matter what that dumb ass scale says.
Salty Pickle a.k.a. Lee
Topic: RE: ALL ABOARD! PROTEIN TRAIN IN THE STATION
We need to get off of this damned hospital boat cause it has too many sick people on it. I'm also struggling health wise so I did not make a follow up post.
I'm with you on just getting out there and posting about our progress. Use Feet to the Fire: Accountability; or, start a new thread; or, add your current progress to an older thread. Post your exeperience, lend support, ask for suport. We can do this together. What is important is that we all come out and post.
Especially post when temptation strikes. Too often we fear, and rightfully so, attacks and destructive criticism. We all struggle including the fakers pretending that they are never temoted and don't take a fall now and then. What we don"t want to do is become co dependents in backwards behavior.
Get well soon. Both of us!
I'm with you on just getting out there and posting about our progress. Use Feet to the Fire: Accountability; or, start a new thread; or, add your current progress to an older thread. Post your exeperience, lend support, ask for suport. We can do this together. What is important is that we all come out and post.
Especially post when temptation strikes. Too often we fear, and rightfully so, attacks and destructive criticism. We all struggle including the fakers pretending that they are never temoted and don't take a fall now and then. What we don"t want to do is become co dependents in backwards behavior.
Get well soon. Both of us!
Topic: RE: Newby to BAF
. I finally made a decision to get GBS and then I lost my job and insurance. I was 405 at my height and 365 now. My lowest weight in the last 7 years was 349.
I am a pastor of a small church and entering a PhD program. I have a unique time frame to qualify for medicaid. I don't know if they offer WLS options.
gmp I've talked to someone who said that in SC they do cover WLS for Medicaid and Medicare.
On September 25, 2012 at 8:29 AM Pacific Time, rightrage wrote:
I have made 25 years of on and off efforts and have failed to be consistent. My most recent major attempts were to get on the Biggest Loser and my partner backed out as we made the final round . I finally made a decision to get GBS and then I lost my job and insurance. I was 405 at my height and 365 now. My lowest weight in the last 7 years was 349.I am a pastor of a small church and entering a PhD program. I have a unique time frame to qualify for medicaid. I don't know if they offer WLS options.
gmp
Topic: RE: Newby to BAF
Keep up the good fight Rightrage! Research the SC Medicaid program to see if it's offered and if you qualify. Undergoing any wls is very personal decision. I hope it works out in your family.
JJ
JJ
Topic: RE: ALL ABOARD! PROTEIN TRAIN IN THE STATION
Ms. MSW, THANK YOU FOR HIJACKING THIS TRAIN. Unfortunately, I got sick and was hospitalized and wasn't able to see this ride through. So please HIJACK on, and I agree we really need to hear from everyone. Support from the community is a key factor in being successful. Rather it's from ideas, what to & not eat and drink, constructive criticism, daily posting of your meals and just anything. We need and want it all.
Topic: RE: Newby to BAF
I have made 25 years of on and off efforts and have failed to be consistent. My most recent major attempts were to get on the Biggest Loser and my partner backed out as we made the final round . I finally made a decision to get GBS and then I lost my job and insurance. I was 405 at my height and 365 now. My lowest weight in the last 7 years was 349.
I am a pastor of a small church and entering a PhD program. I have a unique time frame to qualify for medicaid. I don't know if they offer WLS options.
gmp
. I finally made a decision to get GBS and then I lost my job and insurance. I was 405 at my height and 365 now. My lowest weight in the last 7 years was 349.I am a pastor of a small church and entering a PhD program. I have a unique time frame to qualify for medicaid. I don't know if they offer WLS options.
gmp
Topic: RE: Newby to BAF
Welcome Carolinian to the BAFam!.............I'm in Charlotte. Where are you in your journey? Have you had an initial consultation? Wherever you are along the way, you can ask any question here on the board. We're all in the struggle. There are no stupid questions. Put it out there for discussion. You might just find out what you need. Or at least get pointed in some direction.
Best wishes on your journey to better health.
JJ
Best wishes on your journey to better health.
JJ
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