My doctor told I will not be able to tolerate diet coke or seltzer. Is this true? Say it isn't so... I love carbonation...

I'm getting banded on March 3rd - yea!:tt1:

Sadie

You really have to try and fizzle it out of your diet...hehehe....get it?

Seriously, I am addicted to Diet Coke and although preband, I am really trying to stop.

My name is trystelle and I am a diet coke addict. I have been sober for 6 months and 17 days. If I can give up diet coke (elixir of the gods) than anyone can. Honestly I don't really miss it. My tastes have changed-If I had a choice between a DC and a V-8, I'd take the V-8! If you told me that a year ago I would have laughed in your face. YOU can do it--What you gain is so much more than what you give up!!!!!:tt1:

Like Trystelle said, you really don't miss it after a while. I wouldn't say I was a carbonation addict pre-band, but I usually drank carbonated stuff with every meal except breakfast. Occasionally, I'll have a craving for ginger ale or something now, but a sip or two really satisfies me. Of course, a lot of that is because it really isn't that comfortable for me to drink a lot of carbonated stuff now. The air kinda gets trapped and isn't comfortable.

I do not by any means advise you to go against doctors orders! but I can drink all the carbonated drinks I want. Only once I felt a little fuzz want to come back up, but I think I drank it a little too soon after eating. Don't get me wrong I might have one soda a week max. But I hear that everyone is different. So I was just giving you a soda drinkers P.O.V.

I'm having my Mt. Dew still....I mix it w/ Diet dew.

No problems.

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I get to update my ticker from 145 to 143.....

I can't get my op til October but I've started to remove coke from my diet. Well actually it started with coffee, then the coke zero went cause it has caffeine in it. Now I drink caffeine free, sugar free coke and very soon that will go as well and be replaced by cordial.

Yep, if I can do it too, anyone can. But I do miss it at times. I was a Diet Coke junkie, drank it over water any day. It's weird but when I hear someone pop the top off of a can, I REALLY miss it. But it's been a small price to pay for going from a size 22 to 8 in 10 months. Well worth it imho.

I too was a diet coke fanatic. Now, I only drink Water with lemon, or skim milk, o.j. or iced tea (sugar-free). Its been 6 months and I do not miss it. In fact, my husband still drinks it and we were out and I took a sip of his to swallow a pill and YUCK, all that carbonation. It felt like I was taking a sip out of the ocean. Eventually, it will be the same for you. Now if you made me I could not drink a soda.

Good luck, it will get easier, you don't want the pain of the gas after your banded.

Banded 12/3/07

Weight loss so far 31 lbs.

Well, I'm glad others can say they don't miss it, but yes I was an addict to fizzy water & I still sigh when I walk by the display in the store. I do miss it BUT the results your looking for will make it worth the sighing!

Funny thing, I use to like it ice cold but now I like my water hot, with a little flavoring.

I too loved my diet coke. It was not hard for me to give it up. I had surgery 10 mths ago and have just now been brave enough to try soda again. DON'T DO IT! It is so not worth the discomfort. The bloating in my abdomen is miserable! And I am still experiencing it even though I am not drinking soda. All was fine until the dreaded soda! It has no nutritional value either - so just ditch it and don't look back! Try the crystal light in your water. That stuff is great!