you know i just went to the dr last friday to talk about gastric bypass, they said i fit as a canidate, and told me to go home and write down all the diets, weight gain, medication i am on, problems with myself..bascially telling them how fat i am and need the surgery. my dr said although tricare doesnt require this, it helps to get an approval on the first, verces being denied then having to go through an appeal process and your going to need all that info anyways, so just your dr as much as you can, to help push the approval in.

TaReesa, I just used my weigh in's for each doctors visit I might've had, you know when they do the vitals? Were you seen at all the 5th year? I don't think it has to be visits specifically for weight loss visits. Hope this helps :0)

Glad to see you are doing good, hopefully I will be joining all you losers on Wed. Keep up the good work. Hugs Donna

Thanks. I hope Mt home AFB has it. Hill AFB has a huge commisary now, I'll bet they will carry it. We are there quite a bit. It isn't overly sweet and you can really taste the mango and peach in it. I will get some other flavors. You got to have variety. Diana

I will be checking out the commissary and PX when we go over. I hope they do and it is cheaper than GNC. I will check out the GNC store on base to see if they are cheaper. Probably not. I paid $44.00 and it is 44 servings for me. That is really only $1.00 per day, but I am cheap. I have heard of the unflavored protein and would like to try it. Adding a small amount to meals could help up the protein intake without gaging on it. It probably is good to spread it out over the day also. I am suppose to get 60-70 gms per day. But, I won't be able to make that for a while. I did really well yesterday and got 47 gms. That includes sipping on my protein drink between meals. It will take a while. I tried to eat 3 oz at a meal, it was too much. I am eating 2 oz. Really weird, I'm stuffed. It's great really. Diana