Today I had an appointment with my lapband doctor to discuss my "request" for lapband removal and boy was it eventful.  Okay so it probably didn't help my mood that I am still feeling like crap, sweating out a fever, and overall like I was hit by a truck...but this guy is seriously unbelievable!

Not only did he try to "sell" me on gastric bypass or the sleeve instead of the lapband but here is the highlight of what he also had to say...

• According to him my "healthy recommended" weight is 100 pounds.  Seriously? Not even in my anorexic days...So he feels I am carrying around a person and a 1/4.
• "Every lapband procedure I have reversed for someone has brought them back to my office a year later and over 100 pounds heavier". 
• "As soon as I remove the band you will balloon with weight".
• When I mentioned that I had been exercising and all he immediately cut me off and said..."Exercise is only 10% of weight loss. You can exercise yourself to death at the gym but you will never get your weight off by exercising. To lose 1 pound of fat you would have to do 17 miles.  Don't be fooled by gym gimmicks that tell you that exercise can get you down to a healthy weight because it won't happen."
• "Watching what you eat won't matter without the sleeve, gastric, or lapband to limit you. You can be sure you will fail without it."
• According to his scale I am 110 pounds overweight which gives me a life expectancy of 58 instead of 70 and if I remove my lapband I can only count on that number going down unless I get the sleeve or gastric.

So that was pretty much my discussion with him.  He is going to send in the request to my insurance company and I will know in 30 days if they approve it or not but he strongly urges me if it gets approved to have him do the sleeve or gastric during the removal surgery.

He is full of more crap than the city sewer.  People actually BELIEVE that kind of bullshit? 

I just hope my damn request gets approved so I can go back to being normal and CONTINUE with my healthy and active lifestyle which WILL build lean muscle and SHED fat.

That is about all I have in me today...I hope to feel well enough tomorrow to go back to solid foods anyway.  On a positive note, I got my 2 Jillian Michael's books in from amazon.com.  One is her cookbook and the other is her Winning by Losing...can't wait to read them!

Keep Moving,
M E