12 month diet
Talk to your PCP. Most insurance companies require an "official" weight loss program like Atkins or Weigh****chers or Jenny Craig, etc. good luck!
VSG 7/1/13 with Dr. Jack Rutledge 28 y/o female - 5'10" - HW: 298 - GW: 174 - SW: 290 (-8) - M1: 262 (-28) - M2: 247 (-15) - M3: 235 (-12) - M4: 228 (-7 ~First Stall: almost 2 wks~) - M5: 218 (-10) - M6: 209 (-9) - M7: 199 (-10) Onederland on 1/31 - M8: 196 (-3) 100 lb total loss on 2/2 - M9: 192.6 (-3.4) - M10: 188.6 (-4) - M11: 182 (-6.6) - M12: 175.6 (-6.4) - M13: 173.8 (-1.8) CW (7/8/15): 167 - GOAL reached in 1 Year and 25 Days! - TOTAL WL - 131 lbs
I had to have a five year history and a six month supervised diet. When I was banded, I had to show weight history and diet attempts for five years and I had done slim fast, Atkins, WW and several diet pills/supplements and many others. Than I had to check in with the doc once a month for six months and be weighed, BP and such. When I had to re-approved for the sleeve, I had 9 months of weight, food and exercise logged on CalorieCount. I had also seen my PCP at the start and the Bariatric center once a month for band issues. The insurance took the two inches of documentation from the CalorieCount site and the PCP visit as good.
Your center's insurance person may have some idea what counts.
BAND REMOVED 9-4-12-fought insurance to get sleeve and won! Sleeved 1/22/13! Five years out and trying to get that last 15 pounds back off.
I too had to be on a 12 month "supervised" diet, along with 12 months of "coaching". The diet plan was either WW or Jenny Craig, and I simply signed up for a year. My life coach called me every 2 weeks, and we talked for about 20 minutes. She told me, but didn't tell me, don't loose so much weight that you no longer qualify.
Just make for certain the steps you need to take for the ins. company's clock to start ticking. For me, the surgeons office had to submit me for surgery, so the ins. could deny it, and pass it on to the coaching dept.
