Omg....your story is my story except my drug of choice is diet pepsi....1st thing in the morning, last thing at nite and everywhere I go!! I have weaned down to one 24 oz bottle of regular diet in the morn. But drink caffiene free all day.. I also love the fizz and the taste mmmmmmm . No matter whate I have tried, doesn't do it for me...sigh.... if u find a cola anonomous, let me know I need it too....

I keep a open can in the fridge and wait for it to go flat.. I take a few sips throughout the day. I also was addicted to Diet Dr. Pepper before surgery. You will be surprised how you will not want something if it hurts your pouch. Good Luck

By the time you are on the pre-op no anything prior to surgery, then you are recovering from surgery and won't want to get up to get it you will probably be without and over your "detox". When you are worrying about how much protein and fluid you can force yourself to have for the first few weeks you may find you don't have time to worry about it. Plus if you can't tolerate it after ....believe me you will KNOW...you will lose the urge for it once you "think you are going to die from the one sip"....No ice cream for me for 7 months! Tried twice, after one bite nausea, dizzy, hot flash, tummy ache. Hope this helps. I am 8 months out and can now have about 5 bites of ice cream. You will learn to re-treat yourself with healthier options or feel like crap.

You will be able to do this. I too was a diet coke addict and a coffee fanatic. One day prior to surgery I just decided to give myself a deadline to stop it all together. I drank to my hearts desire and then when the deadline came I quit cold turkey. This surgery is something that I really wanted to have and I realize that soda and coffee were not going to do my pouch any good so I made the decision. I will admit that there were other things that I was addicted to prior to surgery that I never gave up but I can imagine that with me being on full liquids, then puree, and as I start gradually trying new foods I will develop better eating habits.

I absolutely love an ice cold mountain dew...will miss them!! but surprising doing well with controlling the urges of old thinking....think of it like this... that diet coke doesn't feel nearly as good as your body shrinking down and fitting in those beautiful clothes...great motivation...I also was a serious coffee drinker prior to surgery, and only at the decaf stage, but cant don't even like the taste anymore.. it's soooo weird...

This idea will not provide fizz, but may satisfy your taste craving. I got an electric ice shaving machine (to make snow cones). You can use diet cola flavoring to give the cola taste to a snow cone. Bed Bath & Beyond sells bottles of flavors for use in their 'instant soda' machines. I bought the diet cola flavor for my snow cones.