I miss soda so much, does anyone else have any alternatives other than water and crystal light, because I want something with a fizz to it? What about sparkling water? Help because water is starting to suck right now.

I miss soda so much, does anyone else have any alternatives other than Water and crystal light, because I want something with a fizz to it? What about sparkling water? Help because water is starting to suck right now.

I'm curious too about sparkling stuff... There are these 0 calorie ICE drinks some people swear by, but I haven't tried it because sparkling seems to close to carbonation.... Almost like a gateway drug.

I drink diet snapple occasionally, or mix Apple juice and water.

From what I understand we can't drink anything with fizzle.

And it's not worth messing around with your recent surgery. The worst thing that could happen is you drink the fizzle and stress your new tummy that is healing. A leak would put you back in the hospital with possibly horrible complications.

You've come too far to mess around with the doctors instructions. Especially during the initial 0-4 months of healing.

In time that craving for fizzle will go away and all the effort not to drink fizzle will be worth every ounce.

Listen to the Doc, they know what they are doing.

No! It's not the soda it all about the carbonation. Trust me you DO NOT want to drink carbonation!! I don't know how far post op you are? I'm assuming you are post op anyway but if you are new the last thing you want to do is fill your tiny belly up with gas! It will hurt!

Drink some coconut water if you like that kinda thing. At least it's a super hydrator.

Gatorade? Iced tea?

I agree with @Elode...carbonation HURTS! I've tried a couple of sips recently (and I'm 11 months out) and it was not pleasant!

Like someone said...iced tea? Plain or with splenda? That's what I drink in place of my beloved Diet Cokes. It hits the spot for me

I am with you! I truly don't have cravings except I want carbonation so bad!! I won't. It's not worth it. Anything "sparkling" is carbonated so no go. I was just thinking about this today. I would like some more options. Crystal LIght has a lot of different flavors but it is too sweet for me, so I have to be careful and not add the whole packet to my Water. BUT what I have been doing that has helped is Decaf Green Tea with fruit flavors that I ordered from Republic of Teas. Now I order Green Tea because I have kidney stones (chronic issue pre-WLS - related to a thyroid disease I have) and not supposed to drink black tea (supposedly) because it is a high oxalate food, but if you don't have those restrictions, you might find some of these really enjoyable. I have a Ginger Peach flavor that I really like (has gotten me through my morning nausea) and Superfruit (or Passionfruit or something like that) that is also good but once poured in to ice it eventually turns a funny color which puts me off (silly I know). They even have chocolate teas and teas that are similar to sangria on this website. I was just looking at the catalog and thinking the new Hibiscus Herbal tea with different flavors sounded good. Hope that helps!

I wasn't able to tolerate anything the first week after surgery let alone water, I am doing well now and am learning new skills everyday, here is an example of my drink arsenal, and their are others, try these it may help

BTW I have yet to crave sodas, yet I want my energy drink so bad lol

There are a Walmart brand of MIOS so I have a variety

Lemonade

Tropical

Grape

Tang orange w/ 1g carbs

Green tea

Powerade zero

Crystal light lemon

Crystal light peach tea

I don't know but I've been told by many people to stay way from Gatorade but I don't know why yet,

I also think there are other flavored waters that may help and the only thing I do to make sure I drink is I always put lots of ice in my drink.......

Edited July 11, 201511 yr by laguerr13

Oh dear I have been drinking Gatorade -it quenches my thirst. Can someone tell me why its bad? I don't want to mess up.

I don't know let me research, but even the guys that do bodybuilding at the gym say they don't drink it

Water gets boring, and my brother had the sleeve 5 mos ago, and he started drinking wine within the 1st month of being sleeved, and I'm 3 mos post op bypass, and just want a little carbonation, and I figure he does wine, so why I can't have some sparkling water?

Does Gatorade have a no calorie/low calorie version? I don't know becuase I don't drink it.

If not, I can probably tell why they don't want you to drink it....calories. Empty, non nutritious calories. Those are a WLS persons nightmare. Try not to ever drink your calories unless it's a Protein shake.

I was told we can have G2

G2 is the one that is controversial, something about the ingredients and electrolytes, I just can't piece together what it is, I was told powerade zero is much better, so until I find out exactly why I'm sticking with powerade

G2 is lower calorie. Try Powerade Zero though. It is zero carb. And have you tried Propel Fitness Water? Good flavors. No carbonation. No calories.

@leag78- Neither wine nor carbonation are a wise choice at this point - which I am guessing you already know.