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One thing that I have noticed is that since I have lost weight I am gaining wrinkles on my face!  Yikes!  I am trying all these creams and things, but everything gets into my eyes after a while and stings.

Well, I went back to work and I feel much better....as long as I take the medication, if I don't I am right back to square one.  Oh well, more doctors to see and more tests to take.

I have been on a leave of absence from work for 6 weeks!  I have been having a problem with fatigue that they can't seem to figure out. All of my blood tests are fine. I have had 3 sleep studies. They say that sometimes people with sleep apnea have this problem, so I have been put on the drug provigil, it seems to be helping.  For now...

I have stopped losing weight and I am not sure why. I have only lost 2 pounds in the last month!  Yikes!  It seems like I hit 6 months and everything stopped. I know that I can eat a lot more things than I could before, especially meat, so maybe that is it.

I am getting scared now, I am at the point where my appetite is starting to come back and I can eat (almost) anything.  It is getting harder and harder to keep losing weight. I am only averaging about a pound a week now and that is hard to do. At least my hair isn't falling out as bad anymore.  I think that I will need to up my exercise. I went for a sleep study to see if I still needed my CPAP machine for sleep apnea, they had me sleep without the machine (first time in over 5 years), what a nighmare, I kept waking up, I am assuming that I will still need it. Taking it one day at a time...

I just had my first experience trying to eat out a lot.  I went to Ohio to visit my father.  I did not need a seat belt extender on the airplane!  That was great. I had a lot of problems finding food I could eat at restaurants.  I was okay for breakfast, but lunch and dinner were problems. I ate a lot of salads. I still can't do bread or meat and didn't see fish on the menus where we went to eat.

I still can't eat meat, I feel like a vegetarian, it is frustrating. And, my hair is still falling out. And, I am getting very flabby.  I just joined Butterfly Life, so we will see how that goes, I hope that I have the energy for it.

Yikes, my hair is falling out very bad.  Luckily I have a lot of hair, so I don't think that it will be a problem.  I had my first week without losing weight.  I didn't do anything different than I have been doing, but I have started to lose again, so that is good. I am almost at 4 months out and I have lost over 75 pounds!

I went to my 3 months checkup yesterday, group visit with the physiatrist and nutrionalist and then a visit with the Nurse Practioner. I am down 65+ pounds and that means that I have lost 30% of what I need to lose so far.  Everything else was fine.  Only problem is that I still can't eat meat, Nutritionalist told me to give it a little longer and I should be fine. And, that the reason that nothing tastes normal is that your body is in ketosis from the fat loss, and it should return to normal in a few months.  I was happy to hear from fellow weight-loss patients that they felt at 4 months that they could eat anything and things tasted right again.  So a little while longer for me.

Well, the blood test was normal, my iron storage and B-12 levels were fine as well as my thyroid levels.  My cholesterol is down to 158!  A new low for me.  It has almost been 3 months and I have lost over 60 pounds.  But, I still get very tired at times. I still can not eat any kind of meat. The best thing is that I can stand and walk without any pain or needing to sit down often.  It is a wonder to me.