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So I was taken off of Synthroid and put on NP Thyroid by my surgeon. The NP Thyroid helped with my energy and started healing my cracked heels, but I stopped losing weight. It seems that I need a combination of the two medicines for my thyroid issue. My surgeon refuses to prescribe me synthroid, so I had to go to another doctor for that. That is another thing I have learned in the last few months. Never take what your doctor/surgeon says at face value. Always do the research yourself. Also, after the first year, the appointments with the surgeon are basically useless, and at that point they are just trying to sell you stuff that you don't need. I was told that my testosterone levels were low, but they are in the reference value, and I still have to deal with facial hair due to PCOS. I also learned that drinking diluted ACV helps with stomach pain when eating. It does a much better job than the heart burn medications, and it doesn't have the weird side effects. My take away with all of this is be proactive with your health, and make sure you know all of the facts for yourself before doing as a doctor says.

So at my last appointment I had only lost 9 lbs since the previous one. I get frustrated at being told that I'm obviously doing something wrong when I'm not. Although I did forget that I had a cold and used cough drops during the time of my cold which messed me up? Does anyone know of an alternative to cough drops. The sugar-free kind makes me sick.

I have had 2 times since my surgery where my weight loss stalled out, but it doesn't usually last longer than a week. I'm not that far from being under 400 lbs. Considering that I was nearing 500 lbs before my surgery, that is a huge victory for me. Continuing the journey. 

I originally was going to have the Gastric Sleeve surgery almost 5 years ago, but was unable to get it fully funded. I was finally able to get the funding for the surgery back in January and had the surgery at the end of February. My surgery date was 2/28/2022. Today is 4/3/2022, and since the surgery, I have lost 36 pounds. I still have a long way to go, but at least now I have the tool to help me get there.

In the one month and one week since my last post, I've had a great deal going on, but I've been trying to keep on track. It seems as if I had gained a little bit of weight while my old scale was broken before I bought the new scale. For the last few days, I've been fluctuating between a 7 and 9 lb loss since about a mont ago. I've gotten rid of half of the stress that was on me keeping me from losing weight. I'm working on getting rid of the other source of stress, but that one is taking more time. While it's not the 15 lbs a month that I had previously been doing, 7 - 9 lbs is still a huge deal, and any weight loss is better than a weight gain. A nearly 100 lb weight loss is nothing to sneeze at, especially in only a little over a year.

So apparently my scale's attempt at working again was just a last gasp of a dying scale. I got a new scale today as a birthday present. My birthday was Thursday, but I was working that day and this way I got to pick the scale that I wanted. I weighed myself at the store to test the scale on a concrete floor and then came home and tried it out on my wood floor that's up on blocks to see what if any difference there was. The difference was only 0.6 lbs. I then tested the difference between my new scale and my old scale, and apparently, the old scale was telling me that my weight was 35 lbs. under what it actually is. I will adjust my weight on here accordingly. I'm not going to let that get me discouraged. That still has me under 400 lbs., and considering that I started this journey somewhere around 500 lbs. that's still in the right direction just not by as much as I thought it was. Now to keep plugging on. I hope to be around my goal weight by my next birthday, and considering that at my last birthday I weighed around 1/4 of a ton it's still progress. 

Firstly, my scale started working again for whatever reason it wasn't, but now it is. Secondly, I had a couple of financially tight months, and didn't have the gas money to go to the pool two towns away. I had been walking instead, but swimming burns 4 times the calories of walking. Since going back to swimming I've lost about 10 pounds this week.

This is not a bad thing, but it's not the fun part of weight loss either. However, I have decided that I'm going to post the "bad" as well as the good in case it can help someone else. With the amount of weight I've already lost, I already have some hanging skin. I have so much skin on the underside of my arm that lately it has been rubbing against my armpit and causing skin irritation there. That is not something I anticipated when I started this weight loss journey, but I suppose I should have. I am looking at options to keep the skin from rubbing there, but in the meantime I thought I would post this so that anyone who is just starting their weight loss journey can be made aware that this may be an issue and anticipate ways to counteract it when/if it happens.

I'm currently looking for a scale. I want to make sure that I get the right one for me. However, I had a bit of a non-scale victory a couple of days ago. When I was much heavier, I couldn't squat down to see things on a bottom shelf or anything like that. A couple of days ago, I tried squatting down to see if I could do it, and I was able to do it. I wasn't able to hold it for long because it hurt to do so, but I was able to do it for about a minute. It may seem like a weird thing to be excited about, but it is something that I haven't been able to do for a long time.

I'm finding that the scale that I have been weighing on is starting to not work as well. I'm not yet to a weight that I can weigh on the scale my mother has, but I can't get a new scale right now. I'm hoping it can last until I can weigh on my mom's scale, but I don't know that that will happen. I've had it for years, and it has worked all this time. It just is frustrating that I can't get an accurate weight right now. I have been estimating my weight based on the last time I got an accurate and then weighing on my scale. I add the difference between the two to the weight I've been getting on my scale lately. It just seems that lately the number is off again.