melody S.
melody S. has achieved her goal: able to buy normal size clothes no more X's behind the size 4 years, 4 months ago
melody S. wrote A goal achieved! 4 years, 4 months ago
I have now lost a total of 200 lbs. It's amazing to think that I have lost the equivilant of an entire person. I feel so much healthier now. I'm wearing a size 14, and though I would like to get to...
melody S. posted a discussion topic 4 years, 9 months ago
I weighed myself this morning. Last week, when I weighed myself, I was at 214.3. Now I'm at 208.8. I plugged my numbers into a BMI calculator (I personally hate the BMI, because it's not a good tool, but whatever), and it said that I am obese. So I am
melody S. posted a comment 4 years, 11 months ago
melody S. has achieved her goal: weigh less than my driver's license says 4 years, 11 months ago
melody S. has achieved her goal: wear calf boots and high heels 4 years, 11 months ago
melody S. has achieved her goal: paint my own toenails 4 years, 11 months ago
melody S. has achieved her goal: be approved for gastric bypass surgery. 4 years, 11 months ago
melody S. posted a discussion topic 4 years, 11 months ago
I don't remember where I read this analogy, but I came across it several years ago and it has stuck with me.
When you are big, like before or just after surgery, your body is like a new roll of toilet paper. When you start a new roll of toil
melody S. posted a discussion topic 5 years, 4 months ago
My weight at the start of supervised weight loss was 332. I'm now down to 289 with just over a month until my surgery. I've relaxed my diet a little, and am mainly focused on maintaining that weight until my liquid diet the week before surgery. When I
melody S. posted a discussion topic 5 years, 4 months ago
After eight years of trying to have bariatric surgery with three different surgeons and three different insurance companies, I finally have a date! December 18th. However, it's taken so long, and there have been so many false starts, that I don't think
melody S. posted a discussion topic 5 years, 10 months ago
I was finally able to speak with the patient advocate at my hospital, and she4 told me that my state's medicaid has a new option for insurance. Aetna is now in WV, and they only require a six month supervised diet. So I called and got my coverage chang
melody S. posted a discussion topic 5 years, 10 months ago
Hello, I'm Melody. I'm 46, and the mom of one. I started my WLS journey 7 years ago, but something always happened that got in the way of having my surgery. So I gave up. I managed to lose 150 lbs on my own using MyFitnessPal, but predictably, two-thir
melody S. posted a discussion topic 9 years ago
Does anyone know when the new requirements for bariatric surgery go into effect for WV medicaid? My surgeon said that medicaid is not approving any new bariatric surgeries until it does, and they seem to have no idea when it will be. My pre-op testing