Weekly Update Nov 4

Welcome to November!  It has been an interesting week and I don't know were to start, so lets start at the beginning.  I fought off the demons of Halloween.  No Halloween candy at all.  No going to get cheap candy after Halloween.  This is a big win.  Four times at work, I had Supervisors come around with candy, and I declined.  Last year, I bought a big bag of candy some days after Halloween, and limited myself to 2 pieces a day.  The bag lasted over a month.  

 Went to my lung doctor on Thursday, and got the clearance I need from him for the weight loss surgery.  There was no word if the oxygen stuff is going, because I just sent the test back on Monday.  He said if come back good, then he will put in the order to have it removed.  He also said, that he would order a new sleep study 2 months after the surgery to see how we needed to adjust the CPAP machine.  

 Also on Thursday, was an appointment with the nutritionist.  This was to go over the pre-operation and post operation diets.  So I got this binder of  what my diet will be for the next few months.  It was a lot of information, and my mind started swirling and I kind of freaked out!  All of the doubts popped into my mind again.  Is this what I really want to do?  The Answer is still yes.  It was just a little freak out. 

Friday was more blood work for my primary care doctor.  These was to check my insulin level to see if they are normal.  When I was sick in April there was a spike.  So when it was checked again in July, it was back down to normal.  So he wants to see if it is the life style change, that is the cause of it going back down.  Will find out what the test says on Friday.   

 Total weekly net weight:  1 lbs gained

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