Soda
on 1/13/14 1:28 am
The final straw for me regarding soda was learning how hard it was for me to give up my diet Pepsi habit before surgery and then reading many, many posts on WL forums about other people drinking 6 or more cans of soda per day and struggling to give it up.
What IS in that stuff that keeps us buying and drinking it past all reasonable quantities??? Why are so many people addicted to it and how is it contributing to the surge in Americans' obesity?
I don't understand what soda does to us physically or how we get emotionally hooked on it, but I'm very sure I don't like any substance having that much control over me, especially when it has contributed to the weight gain that has been so problematic.
on 1/13/14 5:34 am
I had the surgery for GERD
Why not just have the normal GERD surgery? Are you already in the normal weight category? You had no need to lose any weight at all? And your insurance paid for it?
HW333--SW 289--GW of 160 5' 11" woman. I only know the way I know & when you ask for input/advice, you'll get the way I've been successful through my surgeon & nutritionist. Please consult your surgeon & nutritionist for how to do it their way. Biggest regret? Not doing this 10 years ago! Every day is better than the day before...and it was a pretty great day!
on 1/13/14 7:30 am
And yes my insurance paid for it because my GERD was so bad that my surgeon went to my insurance company because this was the last resort to solve my GERD!!!
Did it work?
HW333--SW 289--GW of 160 5' 11" woman. I only know the way I know & when you ask for input/advice, you'll get the way I've been successful through my surgeon & nutritionist. Please consult your surgeon & nutritionist for how to do it their way. Biggest regret? Not doing this 10 years ago! Every day is better than the day before...and it was a pretty great day!
Take this as a nicely meant piece of advice ...
You come across on this thread as if you think you are somehow above the people on here that need or needed to lose weight - I don't know whether you mean to or not, but you do.
The rules for RNY are not always just for the fat or formerly fat people, sometimes they are because we have been anatomically altered. Dumping, RH, gastric distress, apply to all of us not just the fat ones!
Personally, I dump on quite a small amount of sugar and if that is delivered in a liquid or semi liquid, it's quicker and harder. I would NOT be able to drink a full sugar soda, nor would I want to - just in terms of risk vs reward.
Your choices and results may be different!
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