<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366443231587806237</id><updated>2024-10-09T00:12:18.397-05:00</updated><category term="journey"/><category term="sleeve"/><title type='text'>Adventures in (Gastric) Sleevery</title><subtitle type='html'>A journey toward health and well being...</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sleevery.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7366443231587806237/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sleevery.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Luke Salinas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17194933392608801876</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='21' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4SZ2rLdYrrP6yfHQEMKzvpu6rd5ze_BzqyEzUdZR1GGTfBsbdl6IYlpy4dVJUfYT1iKFnw_TIyZe3TS307YjwSRF9BXseUruqQi21SgS67TdCI2yP9sq00RDJBAMF7mk/s220/backflash2.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366443231587806237.post-8557708294727353032</id><published>2011-06-30T23:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-06-30T23:22:46.807-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="journey"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="sleeve"/><title type='text'>The Beginning</title><content type='html'>Tomorrow morning, at 7:30 AM, 80% of my stomach will be removed in a procedure called a vertical sleeve gastrectomy (commonly known as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=adventures06-20&amp;amp;link_code=btl&amp;amp;camp=213689&amp;amp;creative=392969&amp;amp;search-alias=aps&amp;amp;field-keywords=gastric%20sleeve&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;gastric sleeve&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; src=&quot;http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=adventures06-20&amp;amp;l=btl&amp;amp;camp=213689&amp;amp;creative=392969&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;). &lt;br /&gt;
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Over the next few months and years, I will be chronicling my weight loss experience on this blog.&amp;nbsp; I&#39;ll use it to describe my personal experience with diet, exercise, and the sleeve&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; src=&quot;http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=adventures06-20&amp;amp;l=btl&amp;amp;camp=213689&amp;amp;creative=392969&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;.&amp;nbsp; I&#39;ll also be dedicating some space to posts that will help educate people on all of the above.&amp;nbsp; It will be quite the journey, I&#39;m sure, and I look forward to every second of it!</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sleevery.blogspot.com/feeds/8557708294727353032/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sleevery.blogspot.com/2011/06/beginning.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7366443231587806237/posts/default/8557708294727353032'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7366443231587806237/posts/default/8557708294727353032'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sleevery.blogspot.com/2011/06/beginning.html' title='The Beginning'/><author><name>Luke Salinas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17194933392608801876</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='21' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4SZ2rLdYrrP6yfHQEMKzvpu6rd5ze_BzqyEzUdZR1GGTfBsbdl6IYlpy4dVJUfYT1iKFnw_TIyZe3TS307YjwSRF9BXseUruqQi21SgS67TdCI2yP9sq00RDJBAMF7mk/s220/backflash2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry></feed>