Ok I gave up diet coke after my surgery. I was banded in august 08. I do not really crave it anymore. I have done suprisingly well with that. Every once in awhile though, I think I would like to have one. Do you think it would be a problem i have one? I dont want to get re-dicted...but i still would enjoy one now and then

I've been off of Diet Coke for over 1 year now. I do NOT miss it. I can tell you that I have tasted just a sip of it and it was NASTY. It was so NOT what I remember it to be. It tasted like pure chemicals. I can't believe that I used to drive thru McDonalds and drink like 3 42 ouncers a day. Pathetic!

I can also tell you that I kicked the diet coke habit 3 months before I got my band and my hunger decreased significantly from that alone.

Not based on any scientific research or anything other than my own observation, but have you noticed that skinny/normal weight people do not have diet soda addictions like this to this extreme? It seems like all the obese people I know have massive addictions to soda -- even diet soda -- but only a couple of skinny people I know have the same problem. Or, if they do think that they have a problem, I typically find that they consider 2 cokes a day a "major" addiction. As if!