When your drinking a beer or a coke ( think back to post op now) what were you eating? Burger and fries? Pizza? Like my doctor told me we associate carbonated drinks with eating unhealthy, this is the reason so many of rules of the sleeve state no carbonation. It's not going to stretch or destroy your sleeve! What's stretch your sleeve is eating large meal after large meal over loading your sleeve! Gas will expand and escape. Just like the gas we had pre op escaped now that gas was probably a little more extreme then a couple of beers but just using an example! I'm sure many of you will come countering back at me and that's great! But for someone who might be in the same situation I was pre op this might help you make the leap to a healthier life! Like my doctor said to say never is ridiculous!

I don't drink pop anymore because it has no nutritional value.

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When you get away from the carbination for a while and try to come back it tastes terrible. Nothing good can come from carbination I even have a fear of it. It's just not worth risking an issue. How's everything else treating you? I wrote an epic long post and then saw that you had already had your sleeve by the time I finally got to it. lol. Being on this side of the surgery only gets better from here!

I don't know about stretching your sleeve but I will say the few times I have tried carbonated drinks (champagne) since surgery I can't take more than a few sips before it gets really uncomfortable, verging on pain. So it's a no-go for me. Soda of any kind is not tempting for me because generally it's just too much crap, either artificial crap (sweeteners, colors, flavors) or too much sugar. Plus that painful carbonation. I have totally given up soda and do not miss it a bit. Also, keep in mind that soda (especially diet soda) is associated with weight gain. No thank you.