It has been a while since i checked in, but here goes.
Starting weight: 355
current weight: 307.8, 47.2 lbs lost

I have a question and a victory.
my question is this... are you allowed to take potassium with a sleeve? I tried to get ahold of my nut but got the answering machine.

the other is my victory. Last saturday, my friend, and my two little dogs, and I participated in a fundraiser for the local animal shelter. We had a 1.3 mile walk, and

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Well here is my check in.
weight before starting this journey 356 or so
sleeved 3-25-14, 345.2
20 days later, 332.7, loss of 23.3 lbs since highest weight 12.5 since sleeve

it was weird, but i weighed more just after my sleeve than my weight during my pre-op diet. that was a shocker! i have to assume it was swelling, and all the iv liquids they pumped me with. i need to start moving around and walking more, but to get outside, i have to go down my stairs,

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I am grateful that each day, my pain levels are a little bit better. Granted I am on some good meds, but each day, so far, it has gotten better. I hadn't drunk as much water as needed yesterday, but i will try harder today.
Happy Saturday everyone, and i hope the sun comes out on your part of the world.
(burping through my protein shake!)

Hello fellow sleevers! I got sleeved on Tueday the 25th. and today is my first full day at home. sleeping still is an issue, but i finally slept in my own bed last night, since the recliner was not cutting it. I find that the biggest issue is getting upright from where ever i am. chairs, beds, toilets.
once i am up, i am fine, it is just getting there. Each day, my pain is a little less, and i am hopeful that it will be gone soon, so I can start doing outside things. Theoretically spring

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Hello, and happy Sunday!
Tommorow I start my pre-surgery 1000 cal diet. then Saturday i start my liquid only diet, in prep to be sleeved on the 25th.
I have been lurking and living vicarously though your posts here, knowing I didn't really have much to say yet, but knowing that I would need to have some sort of support group other than my fiancee, though he is marvelous.

I do have a question for the general populous.
Did anyone else test positive for h-pilouri?

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