Diet pepsi

llorii
on 4/30/12 5:29 am

RNY on 03/26/12

Why can't I have diet Pepsi?? I can't for the life of me remember why I'm not supposed to drink it. I am five weeks out and soooooo sick of water and every flavor crystal light there is.

H/W 325 S/W 325 C/W 162 G/W 169 (normal bmi) 5'9"

poet_kelly
on 4/30/12 5:33 am - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

Some docs and dieticians advise against carbonated drinks, some advise against caffeine, some advise against any soda due to all the chemicals in it which are not very healthy for anyone. Who told you not to have it? Can you call that person and ask?

Kelly

Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.

Cicerogirl, The PhD
Version
on 4/30/12 5:51 am - OH

RNY on 08/27/07

At only 5 weeks out, carbonation of any kind may cause pain in your still-healing pouch. My surgeon, who is fairly liberal on the post-op eating plan, said NO carbonation for 3 months (and in moderation after that).

Lora

14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.

llorii
on 4/30/12 7:19 am

RNY on 03/26/12

Yeah I figured there was a good reason. I was having a weak moment in the grocery store. I figured walk past the pop aisle and post my question and if anyone "gave me permission" :) I would go back. I made it out of the store without even checking to see what people had said. I do hate grocery shopping now though. No fun!!! Ok..truth be told...I have always hated grocery shopping but especially today!! I walked through the whole middle of the store and didn't buy anything.

H/W 325 S/W 325 C/W 162 G/W 169 (normal bmi) 5'9"

deborahgalek31
on 4/30/12 7:47 am

RNY on 03/02/11

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Cicerogirl, The PhD
Version
on 4/30/12 8:36 am - OH

RNY on 08/27/07

I think you should go back to the people that did the seminar and ask them to explain how diet soda and our pouches can suddenly defy the laws of physics! Your pouch is a muscle, not rubber like a balloon, and it takes a certain amount of pressure to stretch it even a little. You pouch also has an opening at both the TOP and BOTTOM. By the laws of physics, which are finite and immutable, the gas from the carbonation will take the path of least resistance, which means it will exit as a burp (most likely as this is the easiest path) or will go into the intestine and (eventually) come out as flatulence before it ever even gets CLOSE to creating the amount of pressure that would be required to stretch your pouch.

This myth is nothing more than a scare tactic used by health care "professionals" who don't trust you to make intelligent, informed decisions about your own health and what you will and will not put into your body.

Also, I am not sure who told you that diet soda has a high sodium content (others here have claimed that as well), but if you actually check the nutritional info for yourself, you will see that NONE of the major diet sodas more than 70mg of sodium (Diet Coke and Coke Zero) and most (Diet Pepsi, Diet Dr Pepper, Diet Mtn Dew, etc.) are only 25 or 30mg.

Finally! MOST diet sodas also have only 25mg of caffeine (even Diet Mtn Dew is only 37mg), so the caffeine content is minimal (about the same as in green tea) compared to coffee (Anywhere from 100-350 mg).

Amazing what myths doctors and nutritionists will propagate rather than just telling patients that they would prefer that they give up diet soda!

Lora

14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.

MarilynT
on 4/30/12 9:05 am

RNY on 10/02/01

AMEN!!

Marilyn (now in NM)
RNY 10/2/01
262(HW)/150-155(GW)/159(CW)
(updated March 2012)

poet_kelly
on 4/30/12 8:41 am - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

Can you tell me what studies proved that carbonation can expand the pouch? Because it can't.

Also, several fairly recent studies indicate that caffeine does not dehydrate you.

Kelly

Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.

WhoIWantToBe *.
on 4/30/12 8:54 am, edited 4/30/12 8:55 am

RNY on 01/10/12

3. Aspertame (or Equal, used as the sweetener) is a known migraine trigger and was origanally created as a neurotoxin for chemical warfare!

This is simply not true. (Some people believe it's a migraine trigger, but it was not created as a neurotoxin for chemical warfare, or, as another internet hoax alleges, as an ant poison.)

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:AywoCftL8ocJ:www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/oc/freepubs/pdf/FST-3.pdf+&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjI59M3AXDegh1aZtianaHWmPnvqzwQzBZQlCOS2t6JklmpseAX-9kYmnxEt1JD_r8bgCAOgTTWtPHFiZb_7wofMUvjGiO1FGptIeJ-xGgUDAxZbjjZtdeaXRWXohh0VLZJBCvH&sig=AHIEtbQR9h-GfoiZ0AY6rkE0bF2Dj3lh1A

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/teaching_backgrounders/internet/decon_web_pages.cfm

- Barb, who is at GOOOOOOAAAAAAL!

HW: 274 SW: 244 GW: 137 CW: 137!
Keep on swimming! Keep on swimming!

Citizen Kim
on 4/30/12 8:59 am - Castle Rock, CO

RNY on 07/27/04

Lora has addressed the pouch stretching nonsense, so I will just add:

Caffeine only dehydrates people who are not used to it! If someone drinks coffee, tea or soda regularly, caffeine makes no difference to them at all and the beverages can absolutely be counted towards their daily intake!

Proud Feminist, Atheist, LGBT friend, and Democratic Socialist

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