I am considering surgery and just read about this no diet soda thing. I love diet pepsi. I am not sure if i can do without it.

I was very addicted to my diet sodas a few months back and I cut them out cold turkey. It was no fun at all but now I rarely crave them. I admit I have one from time to time (I'm not banded yet) but since I don't feel dependent on them anymore I doubt I'll even miss them much when I am banded.

All I ever drank was Diet Coke and Diet Mt. Dew. That's it... nothing else. Never any water, rarely milk unless it was chocolate and I have not had a drop of soda since April of 07. I'm chugging my Crystal Lite at the rate of at least 2 liters a day and am very satisfied with it.

I've tried a sip 3 times since my surgery. Soda tastes like nasty chemicals to me so it hasn't been a problem.

It's not hard to give up the soda when the pouch is so small. I'd rather have quality in there not quanity.