Question:
Do I follow the required diet??

   — amandalianne (posted on September 16, 2003)

September 16, 2003
Follow their rules and lose some weight. Bariatric surgeons know we've lost weight before and couldn't keep it off. Losing some weight before lets you "practice" the behaviors you will do after. It helps your liver and I don't know what else. You won't be perfect but give it a try. It's really not a trick they are playing on you to deny you surgery. I lost 53 lbs in the 3 months prior to my surgery.
   — JoSyrNY

September 16, 2003
I put the wrong weight in my previous post - 43 lbs prior to surgery and 14 at 2 weeks after for a total of 57. My surgey was August 15th, and I'll get weighed again on the 23rd of Sept. Good luck!
   — JoSyrNY

September 16, 2003
Hey, after 6 months, I lost a WHOLE EIGHT POUNDS and will be re-submitting this week for approval. There is nothing stated, within Cigna guidlines, nor NIH guideslines that states that you MUST lose weight. Now granted, not ALL my days were a strict 1800 cal. day, but I did give it a good faith effort. They don't ask you, or require you to lose TONS, just give it a "good faith" effort. Even people after surgery have less than stellar eating days. I never was that sucessful even when giving 110% with W. Watchers.
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