No More Caffeine?

 I'm at the beginning of the 6 month jumping thru hoops required by my insurance before surgery can be scheduled. Part of the requirement is a monthly visit with a dietitian. I've been told to cut out caffeine! I can't imagine life without it. I love my morning routine that revolves around grinding beans, heating water, and making thick creamy foamy delicious coffee in my coffee press. You'll have to pry my coffee mug out of my cold dead fingers before I'll quit.

Am I being unreasonable wanting to keep my coffee? I guess I'm allowed to use decaf but what's the point of coffee without the caffeine?

I'm pouting..

 After WLS it is more difficult taking in enough liquids. Caffeine is a diuretic and it takes 1.5 cups of water to counter 1 cup of a caffeinated beverage. So that would be pretty hard on a new small pouch. Might as well start practicing your new life now. This is only one of the changes you will have to make. Learning how to be gracious when people compliment the new you is another.
 Embrace the program and you will be rewarded for each and every sacrifice.

 NOooooooooo.........

 If this person is having a VSG as stated in her profile info, he/she will not have a pouch per se. That being said, caffeine is hard on any system after surgery and as hard as it may be to wrap your brain around it right now, you probably won't even feel like having coffee after surgery. Not right away, anyhow.

I was a coffee fiend, too, and now I'd almost prefer an ice water. Crazy!

Coffee was my first meal post opp.  I don't think I've gone a day without it.  It boils down to choices and cravings.  You may find yourself not craving it...or you may find it makes all the difference.  If you are talking about high calorie coffee drinks, that may be something you seriously need to cut back.  If you are talking calorie free coffee (like what I drink) then it can be part of your goals.

Paul

I know how you feel about your Coffee. But my coffee is plain Black. I look at you need to make a decision which one is more important? I believe the Precious Gift of having a chance to be Healthy is the Right Choice to make. You will be fine. You might not even want your coffee after surgery. Tastes do change I hear. Have to make up your mind. You can do it

 I take my coffee straight out of the pot. I drink my coffee just like my 95 year old Dutch grandma drank hers until the day she died - black and as hot as you can stand it. 

Well, I'm going to give this whole thing a whirl and do everything as well as I can. Except maybe the coffee bit. 

They suggest you not drink caffine or coffee....But if you do, for every cup of coffee you have to have an additional 8oz. of water.....

I stayed away from coffee for 2-3 months......Now I drink it every morning, about 2-3 cups.....

It's all choices we make.....And for me I choose my coffee.....Were talking "life" here, and for me not to have coffee for life is unrealistic.....

Kelly