Just wondering if anyone drinks coffee, I'm two weeks post op and really dragging!!! Will having one cup in the morning hurt??

I have a cup of coffee every morning. Can't start my day without it. I stopped drinking it on my pre-op diet and resumed about 2 weeks post-op. While it is always best to follow your own surgeon's protocol, I don't see where it would hurt you.

I agree with Happy. I didn't even cut it pre or post op, just the day of the surgery. And I use the coffee Mate Fat Free French vanilla creamer too. I just calculate it into my plan.

I tried when I first started my pre-op to do hot tea, no coffee. Ugh, just was not the same. So I switched from the creamer above to regular half and half during the pre op (I was on a strict 30 carb limit during my pre op diet and I actually measured my creamer). After surgery, I went back to the Coffee Mate.

Now I wouldn't suggest going to StarBucks and getting a grande vanilla latte or caramel macchiato (as those things are well over 300 calories), but enjoy the coffee you make at home, or if you can stand StarBucks black coffee, have it.

Thanks so much for the advice !!

I do a soy latte, and add splenda and cinnamon and BAM!!! Great coffee! You should be fine, but as the other post saidm watch it on the liquid calories because they sneek up on ya! :cursing:

I order off the skinny menu at Starbucks and just adjust my daily calorie intake to compensate.

cup of coffee every day. my doc's only concern was compensating for the potential diuretic affect.

I have around 16ozs of coffee every morning and started the first day after surgery.

I am with you, when I go into Starbucks, I go to the skinny menu now. I can go do their black coffee with splenda and 2% milk.

I tried to do the decaf thing...ugg. I couldn't find a brand that I liked. I talked to my dietitian and she said that one 8oz cup of "real" coffee would be okay....I am so happy. Now I have two cups of half decaf and half real coffee with light soy milk (the chocolate it the best). Helps me out at work since i work nights.

I drink coffee every morning and when I go to Starbuck's I do the skinny menu too. Love there Skinny Vanilla Latte with Splenda.

I had coffee the day after surgery- doc said it was okay.

My Doctor told me coffee for breakfast, again mid morning and dont eat until lunch :-)

Works for me well.

Good luck

I temporarily eased off and stopped before surgery (just afraid of the headaches in case I was too nauseated to drink it). They brought me coffee with my first bander meal in the hospital. I have (and am allowed) 3-4 cups every day.

If you've gone 2 weeks without it, that's not why you're dragging. You're dragging 'cause you had surgery and are recovering--and eating a whole new way.

Still, a little caffeine never killed anyone. I haven't gone back, really (an occasional iced tea, maybe) because it's such a slippery slope for me---I was such a junkie!

The diuretic effect of caffeine has been nearly completely debunked. For every 8 ounces of caffeinated beverage you take in, more than 6 ounces are available to the body for hydration. It simply does not deplete fluids the way it was once believed.