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Ahhh not necessarily that you are doing anything wrong. Our bodies lose much slower and are more stubborn about letting go of the excess, as we get closetr to a normal wieght. Just hopw it goes. Look at me...I have been dong this challenge for what 4 weeks or so now??? and am only down by 7 lbs, and thats the fastest I have lost anything in months and months. I bet alot of it was water weight. BUT I am headed in the right direction and so are you! Even if we are not losing consistantly, if the scale is not going up, we are doing well. Our body will take a break from the losing when ever it pleases i am afraid. It just isn't like when we were new post-ops anymore. You are doing great! Water intake and protein where it should be?
Hang in there girl. You are a success!

Soooo.... Did ok with the eating yesterday, although not alot of it, posted what I had in the perevious entry. Lost track of my steps, because my 5 years old granddaughter discovered my pedometer, and just HAD to experiment with it. LOL she is sooooo cute! But am sure i was at least at 8000 steps, if not the 10,000. This morning i awoke to a pleasant suprise...down 2 pounds! Yeay! 8 more to go to get back to my lowest consistant weight of 153. Although when there I floated between 153 and 157, usually closer to or at the 153. I think today I have decided that I will eat nothing except a little fruit, a lot of veggies, and maybe a homemade veggie chicken soup for supper. I will also have a liquid protein supplement like an atkins shake or unjury shake. Or maybe will just add protein to my orange crystal light.

Planning to take a 2.5 mile walk this evening after it cools off outside. It is supposed to hit 102 degrees today. It is already in the mid 90's and we don't reach peak temp until 3 PM or so and it is just after noon now. Will focus on laundry, and getting this place cleaned up and ready for my grandsons birthday party on Sunday that will be held here. He will be 1 year old the lil stinker pot!  Soooo, on that note I will bid you all a farewell, so I can get my behind in gear around here.

Oh yes...I have upped my iron to try to reverse the anemia. Wish me luck. Also have to call today or tomorrow to find out the results of the H pylori test, again wish me luck.
I wish you all a wonderful day, happy moments, and lots of little, or not so little victories!

My name is Shannon and Im new to the board as well as this group.  A little about me, Im a SAHM of two amazin kids and a military wife.  I have been overweight my whole life.  Ive never felt skinny, because i never have been.  I have tired everything unde the sun in regards to diets and nothing works, i dont even yo-yo, I just stay the same no matter what i do.  The weight has always just gone up if anything. 
Growing you with a skinng sister put a lot of bad self imagry in me that had lasted into my 30's.  I was recently diagnosed with sleep apnea and have to sleep with a cpap maching now.  I HATE IT!  its a horibble invention that makes me feel like im sufocaing.   this was the last straw for me.  I got the ball rolling and I am beginning my WLS journey.  his is not a place i ever thought id be, you know?  i never wanted to need surgery to fix this issue but here i am and im feeling really great about the decision.  Getting to surgery day is going to be a challenge but im really hopeing to find some support from some of you who have been there.  

Sorry for the long intro and thankx for reading.  I cant wait to meet some of you.

Dear Mag,
Thanks for your encouragement!  I will pm you in a bit...now am just thinking and trying to calm down and regroup.  Will be okay but a couple days may help. 

My insurance is also United Health Care but not an HMO.  I could completely change my insurance company but I think this would mean a long delay so will investigate options that are on their "excellence"list.  I am not sure their list really means excellent but let's see.  Maybe something closer to home will be better in the long run....i am trying to think there was a bigger reason for this like the universe knew my surgeon would be tired this week:)
Take care!!! 
Hugs!

Dear Kathy,

    I feel your pain. I can't believe you are going through this too. I first tried to get my surgery done, but my insurance didn't even know their own policy on it. I ran off about 50 pages of info from the main website about requirements for the WLS. I waited a while because one of the local hospitals was working on becoming a Center of Excellence. My insurance at the time was backed by United Health Care. (HMO) Finally I got tired of waiting and changed to a different form of the same insurance and it went like clockwork. Please PM me so we can talk a little more about specifics.  Sorry you are going through this. Another hospital became a center of Excellence in our town and I didn't have to travel to have my surgery so the wait was worth it.    Mag