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- Out of the 450 State of Mississippi employees that applied to be a part of the first 100 patients in the Obesity Treatment Program, 275 patients qualified. Out of the 275, 100 patients were randomly selected by a third party to be approved for the program.
- On November 23, 2009, the State will send out notification letters to the 100 patients that have been randomly selected to be evaluated by a physician for weight loss surgery.
- If you receive one of these letters and want to pursue having surgery by Dr. King, contact our office and we will be glad to work with your schedule to make an appointment for a consultation with Dr. King. The program will not start paying for any visits, tests, etc., associated with weight loss surgery before December 1, 2009. So if you are interested in trying to have surgery before the end of the year, you will need to call right away. (Due to any additional testing, consultations, etc., the doctor may recommend, we can not guarantee surgery by the end of the year, however we will do our very best to accommodate you).
- The program states that the employee must have surgery before November 31, 2010.
- The program also states that the employee will be responsible for their deductible and copayments, like with any other benefit in your present health insurance plan.
- The State advised that letters to the employees not selected as the first 100 patients, will also be mailed out on November 23, 2009.
- If any employee “falls out" of the process for any reason, i.e,. medical & or personal reasons, etc., there are additional employees that are next in line that have been selected to take their place in order to keep 100 patients in the program.
- Regarding the 2010-2011 Program -The State advised us that in the middle of January, 2010, they will post a notification on their website that the process to select the next 100 patients will begin. As it stands now, employees will have until June,2010 to go through the detailed process of applying to be in the 2010-11 group of patients, however it will be September, 2010 before these 100 patients are notified that they are approved by the program for surgery.
Stacey
Today we released a couple of major updates to Health Tracker just in time for the holidays (as we continue on the path to Health Tracker world domination :). These updates include, 1) Profile display of Health Tracker - If you choose to, you are now able to display/share your Health Tracker within your personal profile. This can be kept completely private, it can be shared with only your friends or with the entire ObesityHelp community. 2) My Workouts - You are now able to build and store custom workouts that can be used over and over again. My Workouts will allow you to log multiple exercise/activity items at one time so you don't have to search for individual exercises each time you want to log your activity or exercise session.
Profile Display of Health Tracker .
The profile display of Health Tracker includes Body, Food Log, Exercise Log and the Macronutrient Report. As mentioned above, this can be kept entirely private or you can choose to share your Health Tracker information with friends, family, your bariatric surgeon or other clinicians.
In order to see the profile view of Health Tracker, when viewing your profile or another member's profile, look for the Health Tracker link to the right of the avatar. If there is no Health Tracker link, the profile view of Health Tracker has been set to private.
The privacy settings for Health Tracker can be found in the "Settings" section of My OH. To access your Health Tracker setting click My OH at the top of any page on ObesityHelp, select "Settings" on the left, click the Health Tracker tab and choose the "Sharing" option. Or, just click here to access your Health Tracker Sharing options :)
Workouts
My Workouts makes it quick and easy to log routine exercise and activity. For those who perform similar exercises on a regular basis, with My Workouts you can create a workout consisting of a series of exercises you often perform and instead logging each exercise indivivudally, My Workouts allows to log a single item (a workout) that contains all of the exericses you have performed. Build it once and log it any number of times.
Under My Workouts you will see a list of workouts that you have created and saved. You can log workouts directly from My Workouts by selecting "I did this", choose the day and click "Save"
You can also search for workouts you have created directly from your Exercise Log.
Create your first workout now!
One other addition
For your convenience, in this release we have also made some changes to the account deactivation process. In case you ever have the need to deactivate your ObesityHelp account, you can access this function by clicking My OH at the top of any page on ObesityHelp, select "Settings" on the left, and under the "General" tab select "Manage". Instructions for deactivating your account can be found there.
Have a great Thanksgiving and look for more updates soon!
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about this release, please post them in this thread on the Main Message Board.
Thank you...I got to the point of wondering was I doing what was right..Or if I even deserve to be a normal size after being over weight all these years. I know the fat me, but I will have to get to know the person that up under all these weight that is crying to get out.
I would love to come to the class tomorrow...what time and were.
My doctor is Dr. Kenneth Vick of UMC. He is a great person. when my husband and I first met him, he set and listen to us until all of our questions was asked and we was sure on the procedure i want to do.
Size Sexy
This month our meeting is Tuesday, November 24th in Hattiesburg.
Tuesday, November 24th
6:00 pm
Office of Dr. Beverly Smallwood
206 South 28th Ave. (across from the Super D)
Hattiesburg, MS 39401
601-264-0890No requirements on the types of surgery, or where you had your surgery.
Loved ones are welcome to come too.
Lisa will have some pictures of the recent pinning dinner, for those of you who might have missed it. Also, she has some interesting facts on vitamin absorption and of course, Holiday Eating tips!
Hope to see you there!
~ Tammy
~ Tammy Starr
Liquid diet is nothing. Search the various forums here for great recipes and suggestions.
SF Jello
SF pudding
Iced tea / hot tea (hot tea helps me feel fuller)
water
Crystal Light
Diet Cokes
popsicles
hot cocoa
soups (I LOVE tomato soup)
take a thicker soup like potato soup and run it through the blender with some milk or whatever.
Crystal Light and Kool-Aid makes packets to pour into your water to flavor it.
~ Tammy Starr
Except one - Why in the WORLD did I not do this sooner???
Seriously, check out my blogs but basically I went from a 370 pound couch potato, who hated myself, was miserable, and was sick, sick, SICK with hypertension, water retention, and sleep apnea so severe I was in the ER.
I am now healthy and symptom free! I have lost 73 lbs and am now at 297 for the 1st time in 16 years. I'm loving my new hourglass shape.
Part of my journey was realizing that I was in a marriage that was killing me. And now that my divorce is final, I am starting to live my life for the very 1st time. I'm about to start taking dance lessons. I have guys paying attention to me. I'm happier with who I am. I don't embarrass my teenager anymore. LOL! And I started jogging 2 weeks ago with a goal of running my 1st 5K this spring.
Which doctor are you going to? because that makes all the difference in the world. I have an amazing support team from my doctor's office and would not be here today but for them. We have a support group meeting tomorrow night. PLEASE JOIN US!!!!
Tammy
~ Tammy Starr
I was checking to see how things are going with the lapband. My surgery date is 12/10, I am a little nervous now (no i am scared) how much weight have you lost so far. and are you glad you got the band. any regrets. ANY PAIN.....
Size Sexy
Hi, I am scheduled to have surgery on 12/10/09, But I am having Lapband. I hope things go good for you.
Size Sexy
Size Sexy
