Question:
Does anyone know what supervised weight lose is?

Does a dietician work? What about joining the hospital gym?    — boogieman9376 (posted on January 17, 2003)

January 17, 2003
Here are things that I know DO count as "supervised weight loss": Structured programs such as Weight Watchers, Nutri-System, LA Weight Loss, etc. A "doctor-supervised" program (such as your doctor putting you on a XXX# of calories/day diet and/or prescribing diet pills that required follow-up monitoring.) Basically, a program where records of the program, including how much weight you lost and regained, etc. That's what "supervised" means. Hope this helps!
   — asumamma1

January 17, 2003
My "supervised diet" consisted of me telling my doctor that I was excercising and eating low fat.Then I just had to go in and get weighed once a month and have my weight documented.
   — jennifer A.

January 17, 2003
In addition to what the others posted, if you anticipate a long wait (for example if all your testing will take a long time for any reason), your surgeon can supervise. I am waiting until summer for scheduling reasons... my WLS surgeon discussed proper eating with me, and said if he weighed me on each visit until surgery, regardless of teh results, that would be enough to document "physician supervised dieting" for the next 6 mos. (I also had 6 mos with my PCP). Just a thought, if time is on your side.
   — Kelly B.

January 17, 2003
Hello, I am going through my 3RD APPEAL with my ins company (great west), because i didnt have 1 yr of supervised dieting with my doctor. I,ve finally got 3 months of it under my belt, but to make my ins comp happy, i have 9 more months to go. They want me to document every month what i've done and check in with my DR. once a month to give them my documentations, get weighed, and have my blood pressure checked. Then at the end of the 1yr, my Doc will write up something for great west documenting all of the things i've done. Then.......HOPEFULLY that will be enough for them!!!!Good luck and wish me luck as well!!! April Tegarden
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