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Where to begin.  My weight loss journey has been has had so many ups and down, twist and turns. I remember when i was in my early twenties and I thought I was overweight.  If ONLY I weighed now what I weighed then.  I would say, like many women, my weight gain started with my pregnancy.  I gained a healthy 24 pounds with my pregancy which would me at 208 when my daughter was born almost 18 years ago.  For many years I couldn't tell you what my weight was, I just knew that I was overweight and my husband at the time, did not find that attractive.  Fast forward several years of taing care of everyone but myself and I was at 240 maybe.  Trying to exercise when I had the time but not really having the time.  A divorce and move to a new state didn't do much to help the situation.  Finally in 2012 i started this "Physician weight loss" program in Nebraska, wear i was living and working at the time.  I did a Very Low calorie diet, with supplements and weekly B12 injections.  It worked.  I dropped down to 168, the lowest weight I have ever been in my adult life, to include while I was in the Navy.  It felt great.  I felt great about myself.  The gym I joine had Pilates Reformer classes, the classes with the sleds.  I loved them.  I felt strong and healthy.  I was in a size 8!  Couldn't believe it.  Then as happens, my life experienced a crash.  Work became and terror zone and after a few months I was able to get a reassignment back to my home town.  This is when my weight started creeping back up.  This was 2013.  I seemed helpless to stop the gain.  I didn't have my gym and honestly I got lazy, thinking I would be able to maintain my weight with no problem.  Nope, not happening.  To the back of the closet went all my cute size 8/10 clothes, out came my size 12/14 pants and flowy shirts that hid the always growing fat.  Even my feet got fat and I couldn't wear the cute wedges.  My body started hurting.  My liver is slowly becoming a fattly liver.  My A1C crept up and passed over into 6.5 zone beginning of this year.  Last year I joined a program that was sponsored by my local hospital.  It is a holistic approach program.  You not only see a doctor once a month but also the nurse and a dietician.  You have a psych eval to help you understand why you gain weight and they partner with one of the local gyms.  I never took advantage of the gym because honestly that gym sucks, as do most of the gyms in my town.  Well after a year of being on the program, I still hadn't lost any weight, I decided to talk to the doctor about have VSG.  She said let's do it.  I had to jump through a couple of hoops to meet the requirements for insurance but once I did, the admin nurse sent off my pre-approval paperwork.  I was hopeful and really didn't expect anything but "you are approved".  The nurse called me about week later and what do you think she told me?  "they denied you"  I had two months last year where my weight dropped, causing my BMI to go under 35.  The only reason my weight dropped was because I was taking phentramine and topamax.  I couldn't sustatain the high level of phentramine though so I had to stop.  I filed an appeal last week with my insurance based on some other information and misinforamtion on my past BMI calculations. I got the call this morning that my appeal was approved!! I have surgery scheduled for Wednesday June 28th!  So excited, the journey continues.