Melody Davis
Update
Jul 02, 2007
Nov. 21st, 206 Weightloss
Nov 21, 2006
I had my 3 month checkup with Dr. Crum today and I am down to 201 lbs. I really wanted to be under 200 lbs. but I did not make it. I was disapointed because I did not loss more weight but that's my own fault. I was eating too many bad carbs. I have stopped that over the last two weeks and gotten the bad carbs out of my system and I am drinking my protein drinks now. I will just have to work harder this time. The bad carbs just aren't worth it. Eating bad carbs slow down or even stop weightloss! Well that's all for now. I'll update late. Bye Melody
My Journey into weightloss
Nov 09, 2006
I had an RNY done back in 2001. I lost 70 pounds but then I stopped losing and started regaining. I am seeing a surgeon now and have went in for a Upper GI. I am waiting on those results. I got my results back from the upper GI and come to find out that my stoma was made larger than it should have been made so that is what is causing me to be able to eat way more than I should be able to eat and to stay hungry all of the time so now I will go through with all of my pre-op testing and submit all of my info. to my insurance company. Wish me luck!
08/23/2005 I am still waiting to hear from my insurance to see if they are going to approve me for a revision and a tt. If you read my profile would you please say a prayer for me. I'll update later.
09/05/2005 I am still waiting to hear from my insurance company and its driving me crazy! I am on COBRA insurance so I think that they are trying to wait me out to see if I'll keep paying their big preimums just to have this surgery. I have paid for the month of September but I just can't do it any more after this month. So please if you read my profile, please pray for me and a good out come. I need all of the help that I can get.
09/18/2005 My husband is starting a new job this coming Monday and this job has insurance so I will have to resubmit everything again to this new insurance company to see if they will approve me for my revision and tt. I am just so frustrated about paying all of that money into COBRA insurance just to have them stall me and not give me an Answer. They have had my information since the end of July so they have had more than plenty of time to make a decision about my case. Please help me pray that this new insurance will approve me quickly so that I can lose weight and be healthy. I am so tired of being sick or feeling badly. It is getting old and old fast. Well I'll post again as soon as I know something.09/22/2005 Nothing has changed as far as my insurance problems but I just want to say a few things. I feel bad almost all of the time. I either have a bad headache/migraine or I'm dealing with my stomach hurting all of the time. I am so tired. I cannot wait until I get to have my surgeries so that I can come back to life. I know that a lot of my problems are due to my weight. People without weight problems will never be able to understand just what us obese people go through. Carrying around extra weight is like carrying another person around with you. I have problems with my self image. I put up a photo but I sure didn't want to because I look awful. But if seeing my photo's before and then after can help give someone a glimmer of hope then it was worth it. I know I'll be on the losing side someday again soon but I am not a patience person so I'd like for it to be RIGHT NOW!! If you come across my profile and read it please say a prayer for me. Until next time. Sept.27th, 2005 Well it's official my so called insurance company told my Doctor's office that they had denied me for the surgery. Big news, RIGHT! I knew that they were screwing around with me. Oh well moving on. My husband now has a new job with new insurance so as soon as it goes into effect I will submit all my Doctor's info. to them. I will NOT GIVE UP!!! I can't. I have to much riding on this surgery. I need and want my health back. God give me strength to get through these trials. Whatever does not kill us will only make us stronger. God never promised us an easy road but He did promise us that He would not give us more than we could bare. Continue to pray for me I can really use them. Sometimes this battle is so hard to fight but I will keep fighting it until I win. Until next time.
Sept.29th 2005 Well it's offical I am denied because revision is not medically necessary for a stretched stomach pouch due to the patient overeating since this does not consitute a surgical complication. First of all my pouch is still intact and fine it's my stoma that was made to large and my roux limb was made to short.
I am trying to decide weather to fight them of just find a new insurance company. I'm a little bummed but I really knew in the back of my mind that they would deny me. This is COBRA Insurance from my husbands former job and I was the only one on it, paying their high perimums to keep me insured so that I could have this revision. I'll let you know what I decide to do at a later date.
Nov.2nd 2005 It's been almost a month since I have up dated so here goes. My husband started a new job back in Sept. But his insurance does not go into effect until he works for them for 6 months and that will be in Macrh 2006. My Doctor's office said that as soon as I get on insurance that we can re-submit my paper work and tests that I have already taken. That is good news. The bad news is that I have to wait. I have looked into private insurance but most of them do not take over weight people. What the heck! Do they not think that over weight people need health insurance? I really need to lose this weight. I am having severe back problems. I am currently on diability from my old job as a deli cook at united supermarket. Their insurance company is currently looking into my disability to see if they will continue to send me disability payments. I am currently not under any doctor's care but I continue to have severe bad pain due to herniated disks in my lower back. I had all of my doctor's send in their info. about me and I also wrote a letter to my case worker. You know it's not that I don't want to work because I do It's because my current health will not let me work. I don't want something that I don't deserve but I do want what I have earned. I hope and pray that the insurance company will find in my favor and will still send me my disability. I'm hoping that after March I can have the surgery then hopefully I can go back to work some where. I don't think that I will ever be able to do physical jobs again but maybe I can re-train for a different job. If you read my profile please lift me up in your prayers. I'll update at a later date.
1-15-2006 Well it is now a new year. It's been a while since I updated my profile so here it goes. I am going to try a different apporach to this whole weightloss thing. This Friday I am going to go to the Doctor's Weightloss Clinic and start on my weightloss with their help. I just don't have the willpower to do it alone. I need supervision. I have also ordered Turbojam in hopes that the exercises will help me to lose all of my weight. I won't have insurance until march and who knows if I'll even get approved for the surgery through them. I'm tired of not feeling good. I'm tired of looking aweful in my clothes. I'm very tired of being overweight! I have been doing a lot of research on different kinds of weightloss programs over the past couple of months and that helped me to decide to take the route that I am now going to take. I have to take control of my own life and not sit here and hope that a revision surgery will be approved and that I will magically melt away into to a beautiful skinny me. Don't get me wrong, I know first hand that weightloss surgery is a hard journey to embark on because I have been there, done that but I also know that I need to get busy living or get busy dying. I refuse to get high blood pressure, diebetes or any other weight related illiness that I could get that I don't already have. Life is what you make of it and instead of me complaining about being overweight I am now going to do something about it. if you read this please say a prayer for me and wish me luck and with lots of determination and with God's help I will perservere this time. It's my life and I'm taking back control! Until next time.Melody
1/28/06 it's been a week since I started my life style change at the Doctors Clinic and as of 1/27/06 I have lost 10lbs!! I am very happy. I have been drinking a gallon of water everyday and exercising everyday with Leslie Sansome Walk the Walk. I really enjoy the exercise. Wow that's hard for me to say because I've always hated exercise but now I rather enjoy it. I make sure that I schedule time in my day no mater what time of day it is to exercise. Exercise does make me feel better believe it or not. I'm even starting to sleep better. Something has finally clicked this time around. What I mean is that I've been on more diets that I care to remember and I have even had weight loss surgery as well but unless your really ready to make the changes in your life that are important for you to make then you will never succeed with any kind of weight loss efforts. I did lose about 70 lbs. with my weight loss surgery but I put it back on plus some. I am now convinced that this weight loss life style has got to click deep from with in you or it will not be a lasting loss. Before I always thought I was comimted but things either got to hard or I was bored with my limited food choices so I returned to eating like I did before and I always ruint my weight loss efforts. I had to come to a time in my life where I had to decide if food and drink was more important or if losing weight and being healthy was more important. I can now tell you that there is no food or drink that is in this world that taste better than weight loss feels. I will keep ya'll updated as often as I can with my furture losses. This time I will succeed and the victory will be mine! Best of luck to everyone who has had weightloss surgery keep up the good work. For everyone else trying to lose weight by any means I wish you the very best of luck and with God's help you will make it and so will I. Until next time. Melody
2/24/2006 Well it's been a month since I started going to the Doctor's Clinic and I am down 24lbs and 4 sizes!! I love it! This is the easiest program to follow. I am still drinking a gallon of water everyday and I exercise everyday and I lift weights 3 times a week. For someone who use to hate to exercise I really enjoy it now. In fact I make sure that I get some kind of exercise in no mater what time of day it is. I buy and read everything about losing weight and diets that I can get my hands on. I do it for research as well as inspiration. I like to read about how someone was able to lose all of their weight and change their whole life. That really keeps me focused. I know that my life style change has really clicked with me because this time it's all so easy and my path is clear. 2006 is my year to finally lose all of my weight and to get fit and healthy. I gotta go but I will keep ya'll posted on my good news. Good luck to everyone and God Bless!!! Melody
3/24/2006 Well I have been going to the Doctor's Clinic for 2 months now and I have lost 34 lbs. and 10 inches from my body. I am now down to 220 lbs. However I am once again looking into Lap RNY Surgery. The place that I go now is helping me to lose weight and I am feeling a whole lot better but It is costing me over 400.00 dollars a month and when you get to thinking about it that's a WHOLE LOT OF MONEY!!! That means that I have already spent 1000.00 dollars on weight loss in two months!! It's getting harder to come up with that extra 100.00 dollars every week so I'm going to have to do something different. I know that I can't lose the weight on my own so now that my husband's insurance has started I'm going to take the plunge again and see where it takes me. I'm not going to go back to my old ways. I'm still going to watch what I eat and drink and I'm still going to exercise. I really like to exercise now. In fact I have a gazzelle and I just bought a treadmill and a home gym. Well I'll keep you posted about what's next in my weight loss journey. Take care and best of luck on your weight loss! Melody
May 10th, 2006
Well it's been a while since I have updated. I have an appointment with the new doctor, doctor Crum who took doctor Udekwu's place. My appointment is set for May 18th at 10:00 a.m. I am very excited. I will update again after I go for my appointment. Until then take care and remember me in your prayers.
May 31 st 2006
Well I had my appt. with Dr. Crum and I must say that I really liked him. I will not be having anymore weight loss surgery. Dr. Crum has taken me on as one of his patients and he is retraining me to use my tool which is still intact. I thought that I wanted to have surgery yet again but in retrospect I really was not looking forward to another surgery. I've had it done twice now and I don't want to have it again. Since my tool is intact and I can learn to use it correctly aagin that is the way that I am going to go. Is it going to be hard? With out a doubt but I really believe that I can do it. I am a peson that has to have a structured program, accountability and that is what I now have. I have attended one of his support groups where I leraned more about the surgery and eating than I ever knew or thought I knew. It was great. From now on I will be going to all of my support group meetings because they are a very important part of any weight loss surgery. Without the support groups you will fail after a while I promise you of that because I am living proof. I have never ever had support after any of the two weight loss surgeries that I have had. Oh sure I did lose weight only to put it back on later and not be able to lose it again. Go to your support group meetings! I have just re started this journey so I will have to keep you posted and let you know how it goes for me. Wish me luck! If you want to see my photos you can see them @ photo bucket type in tmdavis_83 velcro. Melody
August 21st, 2006
I went to my 3 month appt. with Dr. Crum and I have lost 15 pounds. I wish it was more but that's a good start. Dr. Crum and I disscussed Abdominoplasty at the appt. We are going to go ahead and send in my info to see if my insurance will approve me or not. I called the insurance and found out that it is a covered benefit as long as it is medically needed. Ideally I would be really thin then have the work done but I have come to the conclusion, that I will never be as small as I was when I was 16 yearsold so I need to be happy about how much weight I have lost and that I may not have this panni hanging around anymore. I can live with that. I will look very nice at the size that I am with my panni gone. Not only will I look better but I will feel so much better and most of all I hope that my back gets better. I will continue to lose more weight as much as I can but even if I never lose another pound I will happy. I have a great Doctor who is helping me, I have a wonderful support group where I learn so much about weightloss and the mechanics of this surgery and most of all I have a wonderful husband that stands behind me no matter what. I will keep you posted on my next move. keep up the good work!! Later, Melody
