Ok my doc says no caffeine. I thought I could do it but three weeks post op and I finding this very difficult. Most mornings I am ok but occasionally I would fall asleep driving without my cup of coffee.

Doc says it dilates my espohagus, any suggestions or thoughts on this.

I certainly don't want it to lead to pouch stretching!

I wasn't told to give up coffe either. I have one cup a day in the morning. It is a appetite stimulator though that may be his reasoning. You should ask him...I don't think it has anything to do with streching out your stomach

sharon:)

I was never instructed to give up coffee. I am even allowed to drink soda if it is flat (although, what is the point of flat soda??!! LOL)

I gave up Starbucks Grande Mocha on Jan. 1 to get ready for my surgery. The psychologist told me I had to "retrain" my brain, so whenever I craved the Mocha...I substituted Earl Grey Tea (which I liked anyway.)

I also gave up "morning coffee" on Jan. 1 - that one was a little harder but again I started substituting a strong morning blend of tea and added creamer so it was almost like coffee. Little by litte, I wanted it less and less until now it's completely gone. Like others have said, it was really hard, lots of headaches. BUT I'm the same amount of alert now in the mornings as I was when I drank 2 - 3 cups of coffee.

Also, my Dr. said caffeine is too acidic for the smaller stomach pouch that we have after banding and its a dieuritic, which is not good, because he says that lap-banders need as much Water, water, water as possible.

So...Good Luck!! You can do it!

I never thought about the acidity of the coffee and a smaller pouch. Good point. I limit it to one a day and sometimes none. SODA!!! there is no point to soda at all...I used to drink it all the time and have complete4ly given it up and feel better. Less joint pain. Isn't that funny? Good luck veryone....we're still plugging along

sharon

I drink an occassional cup of coffee, but I have one or two cups of tea a day. Why would the nutritionist be ok with tea and not ok with coffee, both have caffeine??? And arent' both a diuretic?

Both are acidic, too, right?

i am very sad, i loved coffee before bandiing. now i can hardly handle a cup a month. i have been drinking sf hot chocolate with a scoop of instant coffee. that is great but i looked at the sodium content today and holy moly, 210mg of sodium per serving. i miss real coffee even more now! g2s

I gave up my coffee this week...I was sick with a cold so I didn't notice the withdraws because I felt yucky anyway! I will miss it...maybe some day...maybe not???

That is strange. Give it more time. I didn't try coffee until yesterday. I work at starbucks so giving it up would be a real challenge. I had a nonfat latte and I handled it fine. I was nervous. Maybe try again in a week or two.

I had a tall skinny decaf latte today at starbucks....after not having a SB fix for almost two months, I have to say, it was DIVINE!