Pop

jtaormina
on 7/22/09 2:44 am
Ugh I am having the hardest time giving up pop (or soda to you most probably!).  I am 3.5 months post op and I have slowly been letting my love of pop get the best of me.  It's usually diet but I still feel guilty about the bubbles and the rumors that it will stretch my pouch.  My restriction is just fine though!  Thoughts?
marianacc
on 7/22/09 4:42 am - Mexico
STOP DOING IT!!! u didnt´had the surgery to get back to bad habits and this far out seriously??
delete if of ur sistem and start over!!
i know it feels good on ur pouch but is not good for u right now or for anyone lol.
good luck with that !!!!
hugs.

Emily J.
on 7/22/09 4:52 am
 I think the rumors that pop ( I do say pop!) stretch your pouch are just that.  I don't think it will harm  you any to have it, besides the bubbles and gas.  

That being said, I was formerly one of the biggest diet pop addicts I've ever met.  I could easily drink over 2 liters a day without thinking twice.  I was sluggish, tired and of course obese.  Since I finally gave up the stuff and started drinking things like water and green tea I've felt so great. I don't really miss it at all, to tell you the truth.  I also gave up caffinee in the process and the only bits of that I get are from green tea, which isn't much.  

I look at it as it's fine to have the ocassional pop....I don't like to say the word never because it's not realistic.  But, there is a fine line between ocassionally and regularly.  If you can control that, then I don't see the problem with a diet pop now and again but if you start drinking them every day, then that might be an issue. 

Good luck!  I know it's hard but you have a lot of support here!

~Emily~
   
"Tis better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you are not"

E N.
on 7/22/09 5:01 am - Belleville, IL
i had a sip of flat diet coke and it was ok.
It wasnt good enough to gain that weight back......
(deactivated member)
on 7/22/09 6:37 am
My doctor told me it was totally false that soda stretches your stomach. Find an experiment that proves it and then we are talking. An occasional soda is ok , but drinking 12 cans a day is not. I am 8 days out from surgery and honestly dont even crave it . I will wait maybe 6 months to treat myself to a soda after I loose the core of my weight.
Sarah C.
on 7/22/09 6:48 am
Carbonation does NOT stretch out your pouch. Pure fiction.

Soda (even diet) is HORRIBLE FOR YOU!!! I wouldn't drink it, but then again, I never did.

One of the main problems with diet soda is the "fake" sweetener. Those sweeteners cause you to crave actual sweet treats. Not good for you. Also, the caffiene in soda increases your appetite, even if you shouldn't be hungry (i.e., you're full).

Careful with the snacking.
:: libguy ::
on 7/26/09 8:43 am
 I really think the whole thing about sweeteners making you crave sweet treats is BS. I still drink lots of SF drinks, which are made with aspartame, and it doesn't make me crave candy bars or ice cream. 
Keli H.
on 7/23/09 11:54 pm - Arlington, VA
You must be fron the Midwest! lol I am from Michigan, we call it POP too. I now live in DC, noone knows what I'm talking about when I order (or USE to order) a pop. lol

I am a diet pop ADDICT, but haven't had it since surgery. My doc told me if I absolutely had to have one to make sure it was over ice to make it a little flat. I don't plan on drinking it regularly like I use to, but I will definitely treat myself to one once in awhile.

If the sweeteners are so bad for you, then why are we encouraged to drink Crystal Light, etc...they have artificial sweeteners as well!


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jtaormina
on 7/23/09 11:57 pm
LOL I am from SE Michigan!
Keli H.
on 7/24/09 12:24 am - Arlington, VA
I knew it! I'm from Traverse City, are you familiar with that area? My family is orginially from Trenton though.
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