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I've been in a major stall since Thanksgiving. Absolutely my fault with all of my holiday baking and extra food sampling. I suppose I should be greatful I didn't really gain anything. I decided to do liquids for 5 days and get myself back into the routine of things. I made it 3.5 days before I broke down and had a 1/4 cup of chili, which was amazing. I think I got things rolling again and have lost about 6 pounds this week. Hmmmm you mean protein is better for ya than cookies, wow who would have known.

The #'s are 36lbs down after a month. I know that this is a great number but it feels like I am in a stall right now. I feel like I am working so hard and trying to get in all of my protein and yet I haven't lost any weight in nearly two weeks. Im on my perios and everything that t have read says that this is a time when your weight loss stalls. But I know that I have lost some inches so that is great too.

I'm eating mostly meat now and seem to be doing ok most of the time. I am having bathroom issues, and I haven't found the cure for that yet, but lets just say I'm trying all options.

It is two days after surgery and I'm shocked to see that I have gained weight. I guess all of the iv's and such and then swelling may have caused it, but oh well. I think I am doing great considering. I have just a little pain, and am keeping everything down. I am following orders to the T and will keep that up so I can have the best results possible.

I am six days away from my surgery and two days into my pre-op liquid diet. I'm proud of myself for not cheating, and I can't believe that my husband came home Monday night and told me that he wanted to do the liquid diet with me this week. He is a chef, and is around food ALL day, I don't know how he is going to do it. He said he wanted to know what I was going through and be there for me. I've got a slight headache in the afternoon but I am semi convinced it is from sugar and cafine withdrawls. I'm drinking slimfast in the morning, which I normally do anyways, then an oh yeah! shake throughout the afternoon (although I haven't been able to drink it all either day), and some soup at night. I've also been drinking 3-4 bottles of water and a poweraide throughout the day. I hope this is what I am supposed to be doing. yesterday I had 780 calories. So I hope when I'm reading this in a few months I am beyond glad that I have done all of this. And props to BCBS they called me today to make sure I didn't have any questions about the surgery and then some contact numbers to nurses that are available 24 hours a day if you have questions after the surgery, or complications. Tuesday April 12th 5:30 here I come.

Super excited, a little nervous about taking the time off work. Funny that the surgery isn't as big of a deal to me as talking to the boss about it.

I'm approved. TRS has changed their requirements from a 3 month diet to a 6 month diet so I called Blue Cross Blue Shield TRS today to make sure they received my paperwork for approval, and they said they received it and I was approved. Now I guess I need to call my doctor and ask what I do now.

I went for my last weigh in today and my paperwork is being submitted this week to BCBS TRS. They have changed their policy from a three month diet to a six month diet. The cut off day is March 15th so I am getting in under the cut off. I should know if I am approved in a week or so.

On Saturday I had my required sleep study at the Rockwall sleep center. I was very surprised at how nice everything was there including the staff. I was extremely nervous of the whole experience and in fact I was rather miserable the entire night. I couldn't relax with all of the wires and especially the finger monitor that seemed to become tighter and tighter every minute. I don't feel like I slept more than ten minutes in a row at any one time, and in fact spent much of the night texting my husband and checking on the weather.

Well today I received a phone call from the sleep center saying that my study had been analyzed and that I have sleep apnea. I was totally confused since I didn't feel like I slept enough for any type of test and thought that this would be something I would have noticed or maybe my husband would have noticed. They stated that they had 229 minutes of sleep time recorded and analyzed but I don't think that is accurate. Anyway I have to go into the center and do another sleep study this Thursday and I am NOT looking forward to it.

I don't know what I was expecting today but I do know that I wasn't expecting a four hour wait. I also thought I would get a little more info from the doctor but I guess they expect you to research the crap out of the surgeries like I did. I went in knowing about the types of surgeries and was pretty confident in what I wanted. I turned in the paperwork, and made apointments for next month and by then I will know if I am approved through insurance.