KatieB2003

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So I'm totally excited to meet the surgeon today. I've been talking to the office staff and they are confident that if I can get my sleep study and pysch visit done quickly than I may get a August surgery date. I would have already done these, but the psychologist I chose was out of the office until today, and the sleep study needs to be referred through my insurance first. But Tricare seems to be pretty quick about approving my refferals.

So yeah totally excited to get this going... too bad I am going to be exhausted, I've been up all night with sick kiddos. Yeah I can't sleep when one of them are sick, usually just nap here and there. Not tonight though they are BOTH sick. Hubby is sleeping and when he wakes I will sleep. I hope!

I'll take the blame for my failed surgery, I can claim it was all the clinical trial, and sutures popping... but at some point I have to saythat when I stopped feeling full as fast that I started to eat more, and than gaining more, the gain was slower but I still got it all backAnd now I am back to feeling miserable. I've got no energy, I lose my breath easily... and I am SICK of it. I would have done something sooner, but our insurance didn't cover weight loss surgery. But we have known for over a year my husband would be getting deployed this summer... so I bided my time and now it's here... we've got Tricare... it's a hassle but they cover the surgery... they cover revisions. Which is a plus. So on the first day of our Tricare prime coverage, I was at the PCM's office, asking for a referral to a surgeon. Ha, easy as pie. Now I wait... hopefully it gets approved and than I am on my way to the see a surgeon. Unfortunately, the surgeon will not be taking patients until Aug 1st. So I wait. And hopefully after that Everything will happen quickly... if not than it goes slow, just like everything else we are trying to accomplish this summer.

Ok So I am such a slooow loser. But I'm guessing that will happen when you get a bit off track and haven't been exercising as much as I should. I could make excuses and say that my knee was hurting and blah blah blah.... but I won't. I don't have an excuse. I will say this this morning I was 230lbs... which makes my loss so far 45lbs. I am so proud of those 45lbs. I wish it was more, but hey... I won't complain.

Anyways.... I am moving this weekend. Well Friday to be exact. And I am thinking being in a new house means I should really get back on track. And I really want too because, we're going on vacation at the end of the month (24-28th) for my sisters wedding and I would love to lose 5 more lbs by then -- really 10lbs, but I won't be greedy.. he-he. And with 5 more lbs, it will but me at 50lbs lost and I think that is so IMPRESSIVE.

Anyways... my sister in law was in town last week and we we're talking and she said that it's good I'm losing slow because with my surgery being a clinical trial and no one really being sure if the stiches will last that, if I'm losing slow than making it will be easier to keep it off afterwards. And that the last time her and I lost weight fast (doctor supervised diet and diet pills - we each lost 50 lbs in 3 months)  we gained it all back so fast after it was all said and done.

It's been a little over 4 months since my surgery and I have lost 42lbs. I am really excited about it. But I get discouraged sometimes when I see other people who surgery at the same time as me that have lost way more than me. So I don't come around here that much, even though I know everyone loses at thier own pace and that I had a clinical trial and they didn't have any expectations about how much I would lose and how fast. But really when you think about it, I average about 10 lbs a months. Which really is totally awesome.

Ok sorry about the rambling... sometimes it just gets away from me. heheh.....

As of today I've lost 30lbs and 25 inches (overall)... Thats freaking amazing. I know some people are losing faster but I don't care. The way I see it, I never would have been able to lose this weight without the surgery. And it averages out to 15lbs a month.

I mean it's been a struggle because for 3-4 weeks I've been in a stall, gaining and losing the same 2-3 lbs. Until Sunday when I went from 250 lbs to 247, then 2 days later down to 246, and today I was at 245. 

Getting in all the water and protien has been a struggle... but I keep trying, I figure I'll get it someday. Until then I will keep trying. 
 

Well I am 1 month out from my surgery, and have lost 25 lbs. I wish it was more, but thats still good. Although I've been in a stall for the past week or so. Today I weighed myself and was at 249. So yay, thats great.

But I am a smidgen worried that my stiches holding my stomach have popped. Last week I was having extreme pain in my left side, not always when I ate but sometimes. And I've noticed this week that the pain has gone away and I'm not feeling as full. I think I need to call the doctor today and ask about it. Or just wait and see what is happening.

I would hate it if I managed to pop the stiches... I don't want to have surgery again, but I also want to keep losing weight. Dammit... I don't know what to do. I can possibly keep eating the smaller portions and exercising on my own.

dang dang dang... hopefully the swelling has just gone down and thats why I can eat a bit more...

So my insurance doens't cover any type of weight loss surgery for any reason. So I had to find another way to get a surgery that I feel I need, to keep me around with my kids and husband. Self pay really isn't an option, we just don't have any extra money.

I had given up hope and forgotten about it, joined weight watchers and some weight was coming off. That is until our pastor got accepted into a clinical trial for diabetes patients to have weight loss surgery, to see if the WLS would eradicate the diabetes.

Granted I do not have diabetes, but I thought I could at least look at the clinical trials and see if there was one that  might work for me. For awhile I didn't see much, then I found one for a new type of surgery called reduction gastroplasty, where the make infolds into my stomach and suture them in place, to reduce the size of my stomach.

For almost two months I hadn't heard anything back until the nurse in charge of getting the recruits called Monday (Nov 3) and said that they had a person cancel thier screening tests and that they now had an opening they had to fill.

So at the beginning of December I will go for the screening appointments, and then if everything goes well their I will have the surgery later in the month. They want to have all the surgeries done by the end of December.

Needless to say i am crazy excited. And can't wait to see what happens.