Thanks Jo! I did find out one thing, my scales did not work lol I now have a good scale that works. Did it say that you had Dr Clark too? Maybe I read that wrong?

Your gonna go up & down like that for months to come as your body settles from the trauma of having surgery. There's always a lot of fluid build up from the surgery. You can also hold your weight you loose in water until your body decides to get rid of that excess water. Takes about 6-8 months for our body to catch up to the recovery of the surgery plus the loosing weight. Just keep patience at hand & follow your doctors orders on how he wants you to eat to loose weight. Congrats & good luck!

That's so exciting! I think it would be neat to have had my surgery on the 1st of a month, seems like a good day to start something!

 well the dietician appt was my 8th appt, ive done my 6 months of supervised but not down to consult weight which is why they made me go again. they said they were still going to send to insurance end of november. I asked before i left why no one had returned my calls & the lady went back & got someone from ins. to come talk to me, she was like "well u haven't turned in your 5 years of history" i said "yes i did last month", apparently the receptionist LOST 5 years of my medical records that i had to PAY to get in the first place & now they didn't know what was going on, then the ins lady said "give me ur number & i'll submit this 1st thing in the morning, oh wait here is the paper that says it was sent to anthem on dec 2nd. & so i will call them" so they did actually call me back & said that a "nurse was reviewing my file at anthem to be approved & shouldnt be much longer" ugh. I am not happy with Clarian right now. 

It sounds like it hasnt been sent off yet because you're still doing parts of whats required of a Pt. Your dietician appt was JUST on the 22nd. Most of the time, all of your pre-surgery approval (insurance induced) requirements will be done about a month before your file is sent to the insurance for approval. Try to not get too upset... i find myself gaining weight since ive been on the liver reduction diet. It'll be interesting to see what is done about it @ the date of surgery-- Feb 1st. I got that date last week. February seems so far away.