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Hi! I'm Kelsey and I'm 24 years old. I was sleeved June 2, 2014. So it's been 3 months and I've already lost 76 pounds as of this morning! I just have a lot going on in my life, so it would be great to have someone who is in a similar situation as me to talk to! Just let me know!!

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Sign me up ;) Rena here!

I was sleeved 7/31, love my sleeve. This is the best decision I ever made for myself!! This website is new to me and I am still trying to figure it out!!

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Sign me up ;) Rena here!<br> I was sleeved 7/31, love my sleeve. This is the best decision I ever made for myself!! This website is new to me and I am still trying to figure it out!!

Yay! And I'm so happy that you are so excited about it! I was pretty nervous beforehand, but I'm seriously so happy that I did it!

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I was sleeved June 9,3014 . I have lost 43 pounds in 3 months , feeling a little discouraged cause I feel normal hunger and feel the process is going by in a slow pace :(

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I was sleeved June 9,3014 . I have lost 43 pounds in 3 months , feeling a little discouraged cause I feel normal hunger and feel the process is going by in a slow pace :(

I've been feeling the same hunger feelings too, but when I go to eat, I take like 3 bites of something and I feel full! I think the amount of weight loss and the speed of weight loss depend on the starting weight. On my surgery day, I weighed 304 and have been losing about 3-4 pounds a week. But keep your head up! You made a great decision in getting the surgery for your health!! And 43 pounds is 43 pounds that are gone! Go for little milestones, that way you don't feel so stressed and upset when it takes so long to lose like 25 pounds! Keep it up!!

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Hi! I'm Kelsey and I'm 24 years old. I was sleeved June 2, 2014. So it's been 3 months and I've already lost 76 pounds as of this morning! I just have a lot going on in my life, so it would be great to have someone who is in a similar situation as me to talk to! Just let me know!!

We can be buddy, I have my sleeve done on the 21st of August and I'm down 21 pounds reading the blog is giving me insight I have must have unrealistic expectation of weight loss. We can help each other out encouraging each other.

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We can be buddy, I have my sleeve done on the 21st of August and I'm down 21 pounds reading the blog is giving me insight I have must have unrealistic expectation of weight loss. We can help each other out encouraging each other.

Yay! Buddy! That's so exciting about your weight loss! That's really fast too! I had absolutely no idea what to expect going in, so any progress was good progress! But I'm 3 months out and have just now started having hair issues where my hair is coming out faster than normal. I heard about it beforehand, but I thought that would happen almost right away, so when it didn't happen at first, I thought I was one of the lucky ones who it didn't happen to. Oh well! Me and my bottle of Biotin are going to become best friends!! Good luck with your continued weight loss!!!

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It's going pretty well. I've just been working a lot so I'm pretty tired. But in exciting weight loss news, I just had to move my size 8 ring to my pointer finger to prevent it from sliding off my middle finger! Before my surgery, that ring would only fit on my ring finger! So my hands have shrunk quite a bit in 3 months!! I think my 100 pound treat to myself is going to be a replacement ring that fits on my ring finger again! Only 22 more pounds till then!

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