I change my Mind

I'm guessing you wouldn't follow the required supplementation guidelines, either -- cause those can be pricey.  I mean, I spend close to $80 / month just on vitamins!  Plus high protein food and the protein supplements that make up my diet so I don't waste away and die?

And while I admit I don't know how your insurance works, there's the blood draws that I have to get.  My yearly blood work is 12-15 tubes.  That's pricey as well.  And depending on what that shows, draws either every 3 or 6 months.  For life.  There's a cost there, too.  Maybe you don't have that cost like I do, I don't know.

Probably best you don't get the surgery until you can decide to make your health more of a priority.

 I went through the entire approval process, got a surgery date, and then cancelled it the day before because I was not ready.  I did not say I don't want the surgery because I knew I needed it and at heart that it was the best thing I could do for myself; I simply explained I just wasn't ready.  I processed my feelings about the surgery and also lost about 20# or so during the 3 months I waited until my next surgery date.  When I was ready, I did not care at all that it was 2 weeks before Xmas.  Others said, "wait til after the holidays, wait til after NYears."  I said I am READY now and I'm starting the New Year with my new life.  Right up to when they put me under general anesthesia I felt calm & collected and content with my decision.  I have never regretted it since.  Yet I do believe it's important to listen to your own voice and step up to yourself and what you're feeling.  YOU are afraid, YOU don't want to change, YOU don't want to invest financially or otherwise in yourself and your good health; it's not about the blood of Jesus or others' tales of woes because for all of those there are thousands more success and happiness stories to share.  Yet, until you are ready, really ready, to embrace this new life, it will never be a good choice for you and you will set yourself up for failure.

I chickened out 3 times before a finally got it done. It was the best decision I ever made in my life. I have lost 120 pounds in 7 months and I am now living. There is always a risk with any surgery, but I had high blood pressure, type 1 diabetes, sleep apnea, and the beginning of diabetic kidney disease. I will always be a diabetic but I am almost on pills instead of shots. High blood pressure gone. Sleep apnea gone. Protein in urine gone. If I would of not did the surgery I was slowly dying any ways. Really think about things before you make a decision. I did not have a problem speeding money going out to eat so I took that money and paid for my surgery. I paid $5000 plus what my insurance paid. In the long run the money means nothing to good health. Being saved is awesome. Pray and let God help you make the decision. If it is meant to be the money will come. Talk with your doctor also. They might do payment plans.

Just curious as to why you even began the process? The statistics haven't changed and I'm sure you'd heard the rumors of complications before. Was it just so that you can say I could IF I wanted to?

It really sucks that someone like me that believes that Jesus will cover me and wants me to be a better and healthier person can't get approved even though my husband works hard every day and pays taxes every year.

Either way it goes it's a bit cowardly to say you will die fat but one day have your glorified body. Seriously? GET YOUR BUTT UP AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!! I don't have the option to have WLS to assist me with losing my weight but you better believe that I'll be heading out to my water aerobics class in about a half an hour so that I can get one step closer to claiming my life back! I'm too strong to roll over and count myself out of the game just because I don't like the way the game is being played.

  Yeah Jamille!!!! 

hmmm,   guess there are no complications involved with a heart bypass,  knee replacement,  kidney transplant,  stroke.....  etc.   which along with a hundred others are all likely procedures someone with morbid obesity could be facing.  pick your poison.
I'm a Christian too,  but I guess God has gave me the ability to clearly see this was the best option for me and has given me the strength to pull myself up by my bootstraps and get my crap together.    It's not for the faint of heart,  but if you think enough of yourself,  you'll do whatever you need to so you can live. (and I don't mean just exist......  I mean really LIVE!)
(by the way,  I have insurance and I still had to pay nearly $3000.00 the day of surgery.... yes it sucked,   but I was worth it and I found a way)

You know, there are so many people who can't have any kind of WLS and here you are, throwing away the opportunity to have a life.

I am not a Christian, but people like you, who give up without fighting one little bit, probably make your Jesus cry.

Whatever.

ETA:  Oh, and I had my surgery in Austin, by one of the finest weight loss surgeons in the state.  I didn't bleed to death, I have had no complications, and I have only vomited three times since surgery over 5 years ago. 

I hope you will be OK.  Good luck.

Whew...boy did all of us on here let you have it or what....so many of us have sacrificed to make this dream of weight loss surgery come true for us....it has saved our lives, brought us back from the brink of death, got us off medications for high blood pressure, sugar diabetes and all kinds of illnesses that are related to being over weight.  And when you want to talk about the cost of weight loss surgery.  I had no insurance whatsoever....I'm definitely not rich....I was able to get a Care Credit Card.  I had Vertical Sleeve Gasetromy.  It was 14,000 and let me tell you it was worth every penny and then some.  I pay $327.00 per month to pay this debt off.  About what you'd pay per month for a new car payment.  And believe me,  I still say it is worth it.  I would chose what this surgery has done for my health and well being, my ability to enjoy my life to it's fullest, to enjoy my loved ones for years to come and the smile that is on my face each day over a new car any day!!!  It seems to me that you are simply choosing to focus on your fears rather than thinking about how different your life can be.  Will it be a struggle???  Sometimes yes...it's always easier to choose to do nothing than to take a stand and do something to change our lives!!!  I know that God brought the opportunity of this surgery into my life.   Sorry but I disagree with you that God is warning you not to do this.  Why would God want you to be unhealthy, severly over weight and possibly die because of being over weight?  The state you are in right now is actually more risky than having weight loss surgery.  Yes there are risks as there are with anything in life.  Please think clearly....study and research all of your options and don't allow the negative that you see and hear convince you that this is not for you.  You deserve more out of life and you deserve to be the healthiest that you can possibly be.  If you don't take this chance you will die anyway....unhealthy, overweight and miserable and wondering WHAT IF????? or IF I HAD ONLY TAKEN THAT CHANCE THINGS MIGHT BE DIFFERENT!!!!! It's your choice.  No one can take that step for you but you.....  Sorry but it stirs us up on this website when we read things like you wrote because all we see is someone who is chickening out, being stubborn and choosing to stay the way they are cause it's just too difficult to change!  Sorry but I call bull**** on your attitude!!!!