Congrats! I have had problems w/my potassium for years I still take six of those huge pills daily. it took a few years to get it up to 4.5 for years even on the pottasium it was 3.0 I had to see all kinds of specialist. Are you taking potassium? I am praying once some of this weight is off I can be slowly taken off some meds. I weight about 253 now started at 271. They won't take me off all at once and I take a beta blocker. So I am a litte nervous with the surgery with some of the meds I am taken. But hey we are on our way. Keep us posted..............