So similiar and yet so different. I came to this site because VSG is still not a very common method in Sweden. Eventhough more and more are getting it.

I will just live with VSG for about 6 months to a year, then I will go thrugh another surgery and get either a Gastric bypass or a Duodenal Switch. My surgeon has chosen to do it in 2 steps because of my BMI. It's safer.

Well even if I am just living with this method for a short period I still wanted to know more about it. So someone told me to go here and I did.

And so much is similar to the Swedish communitys for WLS and so much is so different. 

I mean I never heard of anyone in Sweden getting restrictions from their NUT when it comes to carbs. My foodplan told me that I am supposed to eat mashed potatoes twice every single day during the mushie phase. And when I start to eat normal food I am just supposed to eat what we call 1-1-1   ½ decilitre potatoes/rice or pasta, ½ decilitre meat or fish, and ½ decilitre vegetables.  And on top of that a small serving of lowfat-sauce.

And then there is one thing that is soooo different and that is all the talk of insurance. I am not used to it, because we have public health care.  I know that the questions of insurance are really important in US. I guess I just can't even imagine living in that situation.