A little background on this story:  I had a horrible case of Sleep Apnea back in 2004-2005 and I had gained a ton of weight.  I couldn't do anything but sleep almost 23 hours a day in total but I wasn't getting restful sleep due to the Sleep Apnea.   The only way to stay awake was to keep eating and eating. I gained so much weight that my joints hurt all the time and my muscles had atrophied and were so weak i could barely get out of a chair without using my arms to push myself up.  I had managed to bring back some muscle mass on my own but by December of last year I was just fed up with lack of progress.  I was fat, diabetic and had high blood pressure and high cholesterol. I would get tingling in my legs all the time from poor circulation.