Another Weight Battle Rant
I’m still battling my insurance to cover bariatric surgery. I’ve been in a program since May and gone through months of support groups, mandatory testing, psychology, eating changes etc. and they keep saying I’m not obese enough. I started at 39 BMI, one number away from the magic 40. Now I’m 35 BMI but they have to go by the 39. However, they are saying my comorbidities aren’t serious enough. Not sure why total knee replacements from being fat too long is not considered (though in my insurance brochure it is.) In the meantime, I recently lost 24.5 pounds since September to get to my pre-surgery requirement. I have been asked “ why are you taking the lazy way out? If you have the discipline to lose that, why can’t you just have more willpower and continue to lose weight instead of this surgery?” First, it’s not a lazy way. What someone has to go through before and after surgery is one of the hardest ways to lose weight. Surgery is not a cure and you have to work hard to ke