Diet Coke
Lots of reasons:
1. Especially in the first few months, the carbonation will make you very uncomfortable.
2. If you're Type 2 diabetic, the body "reads" artifical sweeteners just like sugar. Meaning that your body dumps insulin into your bloodstream when you drink one. Excess insulin triggers your liver to STORE FAT! Yes, even on 600-800 calories a day you can gain fat if you're eating a lot of artifical sweetners. My doctor firmly believes that my Diet Coke addiction got me to Type II diabetes a lot faster than normal.
3. Like Stacy said, Diet Coke was always the companion drink to my binge food/fast food addiction. It's very, very hard to have one without the other. It absolutely triggers me to want more sweet tasting things or salty things.
4. Because I've picked up the Diet Coke drinking more than occasionally (), I can report that it greatly increases the acid production in my stomach...and I already have a problem with that! And excess acid always feels like hunger pangs to me. So drinking it makes me feel hungry - a lot.
So proceed with caution but definitely wait to tip your toe into that pond until AFTER you've lost all the weight.
When I was going through all of the pre-op classes, the soda question was asked by someone. The answer was - not everyone regains their weight, but of those who do, they all drank diet soda again.
I thought...hmmm...NOT WORTH IT! LOL.
Whether their statement was 100% accurate or not, it's something to think about. Soda is garbage...chemicals. Not something we need. If it's a slippery slope, why start back on it? Losing the weight is hard enough.