Soda?

Lora is right.  If it's something you really aren't sure about-don't do it.  Don't start bad habits again if you feel it is indeed a bad habit.

I never worried much about it but if you or your surgeon are concerned-don't.

I gave up soda the day I walked in the hospital for my surgery, I also gave up smoking that day, and eating the horrible way I was used to eating. I realize that RNY is a tool and that the important thing is I make lifestyle changes that LAST a lifetime. For ME, I cannot afford to risk my bad eating behaviors because I know they will not be short lived and will once again take over my life. One of the important reasons I had the surgery is because I have NO (zero) self control! So I cannot allow myself to eat the way I did in the past. I realize this may not be a medical reason why I can't drink soda, I just can't do it.

I will drink soda once in a while now.  I had weaned myself off of diet pop years ago but still enjoyed drinking plain un-sweetened soda water with some lemon or such from time to time.  I will now kind of delay swallowing a few seconds to let the carbonation kind of work out of the fluid but other than that I have not had any troubles.     I will go out to happy hour on Friday from time to time and I find that if I just drink a plain soda water with a lime slice, people don't hound me as to why I'm not drinking alcohol as well.  They just think I'm drinking vodka and soda or something.  

Diet coke is the one thing that I have not had since pre-op and I usually don't think about it unless it becomes a topic here.  Decaf coke never did anything for me so there was no purpose in drinking it.  I think I will leave it alone.  Our well is tapped into a natural spring, one of many in our location, so when I go to the grocery and see it for sale in bottles I feel like I have my own special beverage.  

My surgeon did not have a problem with us drinking soda as long as it has no caffeine. Consequently, when I want soda I drink diet root beer or diet 7UP. I don't have a problem with it and it doesn't make me want to eat anything else. I tried a Diet Coke one day because it was the only thing around and I was thirsty and it tasted nasty to me. So, I'll stick with the no caffeine drinks.

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