In such a weird spot
Posted 09-04-2008 at 04:45 PM by BiGMerf
Well today i called my doctors office and spoke to them just to ask the question about my weight loss and got bad news. I was told to only loose 5 percent of my weight, now i have lost the 15 lbs they require. But i sill have 3 months left in the program and i cant loose anymore.. This is crazy! i have to maintain the wait i am at now.. i cant gain or loose weight. I mean i can gain it but i must loose it again before final weigh in. It frustrates me because that just shows how much the insurance industry rules the world.. I cant lose more than 15 because it would put me under 40 bmi and thus i wont be covered
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I'll tell you this was the weirdest part of the process for me! Going into this I would have thought that the whole point of the "doctor supervised weight loss program was for just that -- to show you were serious about lossing weight. I was SO shocked when the insurance told me that I could not lose very much if I was going to qualify for WLS. Because of where I was starting my doctor or surgeon do not even want me to.My primary doctor has only been seeing me less than 9 months so it's not like this one has played a big role in my journey to this point and the surgeon only met me once so far...Part of me says this is fine I don't have to do much before surgery, which has been difficult anyway because of my foot injury but still. Even though I have maintained a similar weight for awhile it can swing about 10 pounds up or down at any given time. i am at the 5 month mark now... I just wish sometimes the insurance companies would look at this time a little more logically - wouldn't it be better if we did go into surgery a few pounds lighter? they know where we started this process!
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