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I do see Dr. Smith did your surgery. I have heard really good things about him from four of my co-workers who had their surgery through him. If I had been able to have Dr. Smith or Dr. Simper do my surgery, I would've. Unfortunately, they didn't accept Tricare.
You definitely have to have a certain level of trust with your surgeon. I'm glad that I was able to attain that with Dr. Cottam.
HW/303 SW/286(after liquid diet) CW/241 GW/155
I was living in Virginia when I was denied my band from Aetna (they are never going to be on my Christmas card list). I fought for a year. We ended up refinancing a bunch of stuff and had to pay for it out of pocket. My surgery was only $13500, which is a lot and we're still paying for it. We moved to Utah at the begininning of the year and now have Select Health. It's been a pain in the tail. Being one of the bigest insurance companies in Utah and my husband works for IMFlash which has several hundred employees, I was shocked that they didn't provide coverage. I need to have my band adjusted but have been putting it off for lack of coverage.
Keep fighting, it's such an up hill battle but it they can see the light it will be worth it. Don't they understand that having the surgery will save them money over the long run? Have you thought about talking to an attorney or an advocate?
Again, best of luck!!!!
Amber
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. ~ Thomas Edison
293.5 lbs - July 19, 2007 Lap Band
190 lbs - Current
20 lbs to Goal 
13 weeks pregnant
Last week we released two major updates. First was the public release of OH Groups where any ObesityHelp member can now create their own Group. Second was the addition of Activity Tracking to Health Tracker, which provides a robust and easy to use tool to track and monitor your exercise and activity. Today we have added My Meals and an Activity vs. Weight Loss Report to Health Tracker.
My MealsMy Meals allows you to group and store multiple food and beverage items as a custom meal that can be used over and over again. If you have meals that you eat on a regular basis, you will no longer need to log each food item individually. |
To access My Meals, go to your Health Tracker in My OH and click on the Nutrition tab. You will see My Meals listed under Nutrition. |
Creating a new meal works similar to your Food Log. You can search for food items on the right and add the foods to the meal on the left. A Calorie Breakdown chart and Nutrient Summary Label are also available for each meal. |
Once a meal is created you can add that meal to your Food Log from My Meals by clicking "i had this" or you can search for the meal from your Food Log. |
When searching for a meal to add to your Food Log, all meals will be returned when "My Foods" is selected in search. So, to "drill down" on meals that you have created, select to only show "My Foods." When a new meal is created it may require up to 30 minutes for that meal to be indexed and become searchable. |
Activity vs. Weight Loss ReportAdding to the Macronutrient and Export Reports previously available, there is now an Activity vs. Weight Loss Report. This report will allow to compare Average Time in Activity vs Weight over time, providing you with further insight into what impact physical activity as on weight loss and weight loss maintenance. In Health Tracker, click Reports and then select Activity vs. Weight Loss. |
| We hope these additions to Health Track reduce the time required to log your daily food intake and makes it easier to view how physical activity impacts your weight. Create your first meal now! If you have any questions, comments or concerns about this release, please post them on the Main Message Board. |
The last several months have been fairly busy ones here at OH and we are really excited
about this upcoming release. First, long overdue is the public release of OH Groups. You
will now be able to start and manage your own public groups. Second, is a major update
to Health Tracker....Activity! We are planning to release these new features on Wednesday evening, October 7, 2009.
OH Groups
Getting to OH Groups is easy. Just click on the Groups tab at the top of any page on ObesityHelp. OH Groups allows you to start and manage your own groups, you can find groups that suit your interests and find support groups in your area. |
If you are looking for an OH Group that focuses on a specific topic, you can browse groups by category. |
Activity
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To get to your Activity Tracker, click “My OH" at the top of any page on ObesityHelp, select “Health Tracker" on the left and then click the “Activity" tab. |
Understanding your total daily caloric expenditure requires more than just knowing how many calories you burned on the treadmill. In your Health Tracker settings area you are now able to estimate the caloric expenditure of your resting metabolic rate (RMR) and lifestyle. These estimates are integrated and displayed with the caloric expenditure of the activities you have logged. |
Your exercise log allows you to search for and add strength training exercises, cardiovascular exercises and general activities to your daily log. Caloric expenditure is auto calculated for a number of activities already included in our database of exercises. Pie charts display details about caloric expenditure and time for each type of activity. |
Sets can be added and subtracted from strength training exercises. Reps and weight used can be entered for each set. |
A number of details can be tracked for cardiovascular exercises and general activities. Some of these variables include, time, distance, calories burned, average heart rate, average power, altitude gained and average grade. |
If you can’t find the exercise or activity you have participated in, you can also add your own custom exercises. |
| Other updates include the ability to create list of your favorite exercises, reports have been updated to include a number of activity items, the nutrition search has been enhanced and we have managed to slip in a sweet macronutrient report under the “Reports" tab. If you have any questions, comments or concerns about the features in this release, please submit those here. If your are new to ObesityHelp or have not used ObesityHelp's Health Tracker before, you can learn about the first release here and the second release here. Need help using Health Tracker? Click here for help. Enjoy! |
I have my seminar scheduled for October 13, 2009 down in Lehi. Surgical WLS of Utah. Drs Cottam and Richards.
If anyone has had surgery done through this clinic, how did it go? How was aftercare? Quite a few people I work with have had WLS, but since I don't have our insurance, I had to go to another provider. (Tricare)
Thanks for any help.
Linda
