Reason to Believe

Congrats on kicking the diet pop habit. I am close to a week with no diet coke. Still having some headaches but I am confident I will never go back. I'm not a huge fan of flavored bottled water so I am still looking for water add ins. Do you have any you recommend that would also be good post op? Hi Knitchic, That's awesome. The headaches do go away. In the past I've added crystal light drops but I didn't really like them. One thing I'm going to investigate is that there are bottles that you can infuse your water with fresh fruit etc. Good luck with everything.

I am thinking about aiming for sleeve surgery next summer. It is very scary to me because I am worried about the major changes to what I eat and not being able get past head hunger. So one thing I am challenging myself to do is make changes now. I am in my 8th week without diet soda. I had a major addiction to diet coke/diet pepsi/diet dr pepper. I drank it from morning to night. I don't drink coffee. I have replaced the soda with iced Water and the occasional flavored water. Never thought I could do it. But I am doing it and I am, dare I say it, proud of myself. Having said that follow your Dr and Nut.

Thanks everyone! I am just reading and reading and taking it all in.

Hello, My name is Reason to Believe and I am currently in the fact finding stage of weight loss surgery. I am aiming at having surgery next summer when I can take some time off work. I just attended a bariatric surgery seminar last week. I have been overweight most of my life. I lost weight going into college and then started gaining back and more. I am considered super morbidly obese and that scares me. I also have a lot of joint pain, sleep apnea, recently diagnosed diabetes and depression. All of which are good reasons to do have surgery. I am a recovering binge eater and have recently given up diet soda. (six weeks ago!). I am working on small changes to prove to myself that I can make big lifestyle changes because my biggest fear is that I will have surgery and still fail. I love reading and music. I am an obsessed Bruce Springsteen fan and I look forward to the day that I can like no one is watching at a Bruce concert. I have started reading all your stories and am so grateful to you for sharing them.