Hello everyone. This is my first post and wanted to say hello! I have been on this weight loss journey for almost 2 years now. I'm a type II diabetic who used to weigh 360. Its important to note that I am also 6'1".
I started losing and came down to 320 when everything went wrong. My body started freaking out and started fighting me. I was eating well and working with a certified nutritionist and personal trainer when my weight loss just stopped. No gaining but no loss either. It was heartbreaking and frustrating. My doctor and I worked to try to get my weight to budge again and after lots of trouble shooting we found out that my number (glucose) was blasting up in the middle of the night. When we started testing I would get up at 3am to test and I would be 175-190 in the middle of the night.
Basically I was on a stuck cycle. The harder I worked to lose weight the more my body would freak out because it thought I was starving, mainly through the nights fasting. So it was dumping glucose into my body to keep me from starving and of course my pancreas couldn't deal with it. So any work I did during my days was erased during my nights.
My doctor prescribed Belviq for me and I stopped having this problem. I am down to 304 now. But of course I can't and don't want to take Belviq for life so here I am on the sleeve track because a smaller stomach should solve this problem for good.
So I am at the point now where I am waiting for my insurance company to approve me. It's been a week and a half now and I'm getting impatient. So instead of going stir crazy I thought that I would join a group to read experiences and share my own.
Sorry for the long rambling post but....Hello everyone !!!
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