Will this count as medically supervised diets?

As a child and adolescent, my mother's doctor insisted that I diet on a regular basis. My mother did not believe in taking me to the doctor unless I was deathly ill (never happened), the doctor retired years ago and I have no idea if I weighed in with that clinic or not. I have also been on weight loss meds and I have, in the past, asked for a referral to a dietician in order to lose weight. The physicians assistant that I saw would not give me a referral to see a dietician, she said it was not needed and she handed me the standard 'diabetic diet', food pyramid chart, etc..,I have seem my PCP on many occasions in order to get help with my weight--she put me on Xenical and quickly took me off due to it not working. I have tried many different diets, meds, exercise programs, gym memberships (all of which my PCP knows about) etc and I am seeing a dietician now. Will a combination of all of the above for over 5 years help me qualify. I have Aetna Open PPO and the last RN that I spoke with mentioned 12 months of dr supervised dieting (this has never been an issue before with Aetna as I have asked a million different people a million different times!). I can't stand the thought of losing yet another year of life!

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