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I’m glad that you’re going to look into them! Post surgery has been good. Not going to lie, the first day it felt like I got punched in the stomach a couple hundred times but then around Day 2-3, the pain was manageable for me (my main struggle was the nausea over the course of the first week). My doctor prescribed me pain and anti nausea meds and I didn’t end up using the pain meds because I didn’t feel like I needed it, but I know everyone is different. As for my diet, I’m currently in the puréed stage right now and will move on to soft foods on July 18. For a break down of Mount Sinai’s post op diet: Day after surgery (Clears): Water: they try to get you to drink about 4 little medicine cups full of water in the first hour and 8 in the second hour. If you can keep that down with no problem, then you are sent home. Week 1(Full liquids) Starts when you get home from the hospital: So during that time period I was drinking broths and protein shakes. It was a struggle for the first couple of days but I was able to get into the swing of it around Day 4-5. Week 2-5 (Puréed foods): I’m in this stage now. So far so good. I struggle to get to my daily water (64 fl oz) and protein (60g) goals for the day. I usually eat a Light and Fit Greek yogurt (12g of protein) and add some unflavored protein powder (Genpro: 30g a scoop) for breakfast but I can only take a few spoonfuls in a sitting and may or may not come back to it. For lunch, I periodically drink a Premier protein up until dinner. And then for dinner I have a cup of pureed soup. Week 6-9 (Soft foods): Haven’t got to this point yet, but I’m looking forward to it because I miss chewing :) Week 10-onward (Slowly reintroduce ‘regular’ foods) Overall this process has been good so far. I was really nervous right up until day of surgery thinking the worse. But afterwards, it turned out way better than I thought it would be :)

I had my VSG surgery a few weeks ago at at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in Manhattan. My doctor’s name is Dr. Paul Thodiyil and he’s the Head of the Bariatric Department. He and his entire staff were really great throughout my entire process. For some of my stats:  *Insurance: Aetna  *How I qualified for insurance coverage: Had a BMI of 38 with comorbidities (Type 2 Diabetes/PCOS)   *Process for insurance approval: 4 months (4 monthly visits with the surgeon and nurse / nutritionist. 3 monthly visits with a physical therapist).  *How I found out about them: Surprisingly, YouTube haha. I was looking up people who had the sleeve done to see their process and there was a woman by the name of Passion Jonez who had her VSG surgery there but with a different surgeon (Dr. Zak).   When I found her channel, at that point of time, I almost put my process on pause since I’ve been researching for months trying to find a surgeon with no avail. But when I looked into it further and I set up my consultation, they were amazing so I decided to move forward and it was well worth it. What I liked about my surgeon and his staff was that they made my sessions very personable. They really took the time to listen to my concerns and answer any questions I had. So far, I’m two weeks pre op / three weeks post up and I’m down 25 lbs. Hope this helps and Good luck!