today marks the end of four weeks since the surgery. I'm starting my 5th week so I got on the scale today. My current weight is 205. when I started this journey I was at 252 lbs. in July. I did lose some weight before the surgery, but not enough to really realize a difference. I can't believe I'm down almost 50lbs. I'm not going to lie and say it has been easy. My surgeon says I'm challenge since I couldn't drink the protein shakes and the chewable vitamins gag me. They did tell me to try liquid

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I'm entering my fourth week post sleeve and see my surgeon on Thursday. I'm excited to see how I've done. It has been a struggle. I have had a lot of pain on my left side and been a little depressed, but i'm glad I did the surgery. I see my pcp today to talk about the depression so everything is looking up. Can't wait to get on with rest of my life...

today marks the start of week 3 from my surgery. I'm not having as easy of time as I thought I would. I can't drink the protein shakes, but I can eat a little bit of bread and other soft items as long chew it up. All liquid items make me so sick. it was nice to chew a little bread to settle my tummy. I'm taking it really easy. the pain in left side seems to be getting better, but it is still there. I just wish I could jump forward about 2 months to when everything is settled down.

On this day last week 10/28/13, I was sitting in a hospital room after having the gastric sleeve done. It was something that I had been thinking about doing for about 2 years. My mom had full bypass about 6 or 7 years ago and has done amazing on it. I thought I knew what it would be like, but it has been harder then I thought it would be. So far I have had pain on the left side that my nurse assures me is muscle pain. I also cannot stand the smell of protein shakes. I'm not really hungry, but really

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