Tom P

Hi my name is Tom Pantalena, I worked shift work and seemed to be just piling up the pounds until I topped out at 379 about 8 years ago, I found out I had diabetes along with sleep apnea and then after taking a early retirement, along with a better diet and exercise, I managed to lose almost 50 lbs over that time, but I hit a plateau for almost a year. I turned 65 along with new Obamacare rules making obesity a disease, I qualified for medicare covering the testing and procedure along with my supplement BC/BS picking up the rest, I got through all the test, but failed the nuclear stress test, do to lack of magnesium, I had to wait a year before restarting over, well I started a year later from scratch and had my surgery on 3/11/15, in at 6:30 am and released at 10:30 am the next day, very bearable pain (no meds needed) and no sickness, that was 46 days ago, I lost 30lbs in the first month and 51lbs total over 46 days. I followed the Doctors instructions to the letter. I feel great and back at the gym 5 days a week, riding my Harley with the club and very active with the Elks. I just dropped off my winter wardrobe to the Am Vets charity.