my surgery is 1 week from today

started pre-op the other day and harder than giving up the food and harder than giving up smoking co0ld turkey (which i did 9 yrs ago)

is giving up DIET PEPSI

i love it. i really do.

i know it's bad. i know it's poison etc

i am not looking for those responses.

i am wondering is it ok to ever have it again or should i never?

Jeffrey

You will not want carbonated beverages....it will hurt, and cause gas. Yes it can stretch your pouch, but mostly, your own body will reject things you cant imagine giving up. Soda is a great addiction to remove...water Water water.

No change, no change

good luck

Marian

I hear you! Of all the changes that will be coming in my near future, the loss of my Dt. Pepsi will be the hardest to take! Good luck to both of us!

i am 3 months out and have had soda on a few occasions and it tasted fine, felt fine, no issues that I could see. That said, I'm not a soda addict per se and can take it or leave it. when I did have it, I mostly drank about 1/4 of the portion poured for me because i was just too full after that and eating the amount I could of the food ordered ... whatever. I just like my great value brand copycat crystal light and the homemade iced tea I make.

I was a heavy coke drinker until two weeks ago. I like a cold coke from a fountain. It's been rough but I really want this to step in my life to work for me. I slowly cut back than cold turkey. The flavored waters help me a lot. I'm scheduled for my sleeve Nov. 4th

Edited October 24, 201411 yr by viktoryalynne

Good Luck to all!

Edited October 24, 201411 yr by viktoryalynne

@ Della Street ~ I was a heavy regular coke drinker and give it up over two weeks ago. I had terrible headaches in the morning. I no longer have them. I drank a lot of flavored waters. Non carbonated and I'm surviving.????

Hi my name is curvycurlyfit and its been 4 days since my last Cherry Coke Zero.

My plan allows carbonated beverages after two weeks but it will be far longer before I try it. I know I will at some point but really trying to break the grip.

Carbonation doesn't stretch the sleeve. These are words direct from my surgeon. It does, however, irritate the sleeve, so that's why it's important to not drink strong carbonation and to wait until you're well healed.

No soda till phase 4...but its still not recommended...i say give up ur old habits now.now is the time!!!!

There are many schools of thought on this subject...here is mine...

it has ZERO benefit to me... carbonated beverages should not be counted towards your liquid intake either...so, truly ZERO... that said, I choose not to have it. I haven't had a carbonated beverage in over 2 years, and do not miss it... like anything else that you purge from your system, once you are "cleansed" from it, you don't miss it... I know (I believe) that if I have a Diet Coke, etc., that it is just a matter of time before I start back on my DC habit...and I'd just rather not. Good luck...it's truly WORTH IT!

I don't believe in being doomed

I drink soda, healthy as a horse, I make great nutritional choices 90% of the time,

log my meals, I exercise.

I'm good. Definitely not doomed.

@@LipstickLady

welllll bud

matter of opinion......

i always thought you were doomed

naw, i know you do great, soda and all

what's the deal w soda? can i ever have it again?

@@Jeffrey Eliot

from day one i was told not to drink soda

coke - i ONLY enjoyed/drank it with pizza

i was never a big soda drinker

carbonation problems et al

but you are a smart cookie, you know that

just because you can doesn't mean you should

old saying here that some vets et al might be sick of hearing

if you try soda, you might find that it does give you problems with your tummy

it might not agree with you

per most nuts you shouldn't ever drink soda

people have been shot for less

up to you dude

what a dilemma - to drink or not

if all our problems were that small!

good luck with pending surgery

kathy

Edited October 24, 201411 yr by proudgrammy

I was totally addicted to diet pepsi pre surgery. .. I am happy to say I have not had ANY soda of any kind for over a year and since I tend to get addicted to things quickly and easily, soda is something I will honestly never have again. Moderation is not kind to me... all or nothing... but not being a size 20 makes me not miss soda at all!

For me, it's the principle of the thing. Since my four month pre-sleeve diet (I am now 10 months out), I have resolved to not consume anything made in a factory. As much as is humanly possible, I give Miss Tummy foods closest to their natural state as I can tolerate: real butter, real eggs, meat and veggies baked, broiled, steamed, and fresh fruit.

My one vice is artificial sweetener which I have cut back by 80% at least. Where I used to consume probably 20 a day, I am down to just a couple a day in my morning tea. Recently I discovered Monk Fruit sweetener (all natural) at Aldi's. It gets the job done without the metallic aftertaste.

I have finally reached the point where I do not miss any of that stuff that made me fat and gave me heartburn. Even if I could have soda pop, I will go with milk, lemonade, ice tea and filtered Water......lots of filtered water. Dr. Pepper, Pepsi, and Fresca, rest in peace.

I had a major addiction to soda when I started this journey. I work in a restaurant where all the soda is free for the taking anytime I wanted. I also suffer from migraine headaches. So I started taking a drug called Topamax. One of he side effects of Topamax is that it makes carbonated beverages taste like absolute crap. It kicked my habit and I stopped drinking them because I didn't like them anymore. It was kind of a forced stop, but I dropped a lot of pounds after giving it up!