Sodas

[ShelterDog64 2,364]

Thank you for that very instructional post, not sure why you thought you had to school me on carbonation. I'm just looking to encourage and be encouraged not be drilled down like you did.

Thanks anyways. Have a nice one.

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She was trying to educate you and anyone else who sees this because you were giving out inaccurate information.

Well there is a nice way to do it and a condescending way to do it.

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I swear, @Gustavio....you have a serious habit of poking at certain vets on this board and if you run them off before I get through this surgery and get to my 5 year mark, I'm gonna be very, very irritated. I NEED them. You don't seem to realize that you may need them, too.

[4MRB4PHOTO 3,900]

This post is taking a few ugly turns.

Let me make a distraction: "HEY EVERYONE, LOOK OVER THERE, IS THAT A SQUIRREL!"

(Sorry LittleBill, I didn't mean to make you hungry - a different post. )

[LittleBill 2,231]

This post is taking a few ugly turns.

Let me make a distraction: "HEY EVERYONE, LOOK OVER THERE, IS THAT A SQUIRREL!"

(Sorry LittleBill, I didn't mean to make you hungry - a different post. )

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

[bananashake 14]

For crying out loud, what a thread.

Put me in the 'no soda' basket. Everyone knows regular soda is bad, but diet soda is increasingly being linked to metabolic problems. I've heard more than once from people in bariatrics say that not everyone who drinks soda (diet or otherwise, and many/most who have had WLS drink diet) re-gains weight, but almost everyone who regains weight is a soda drinker. Also, the phosphorus in soda displaces the Calcium in your bones and teeth, increasing your already-increased risk for osteoporosis.

I had a baaaaad Diet Pepsi habit from age 10-33 or so. I was able to quit it by drinking Lacroix soda Water, then I quit drinking that, too. It helped.

I'm not saying I'd never, ever have another drink of soda, but I wouldn't ever purchase more than a single unit. I'm not chancing my health or my weight for pop. That's just my two cents.

From the looks of this thread, it's a highly personal decision that people base on their own reasons, and people have strong opinions about it- both the sleevers and their bariatric teams. It's ultimately up to you. I will say, I was very hardcore about my Diet Pepsi back in the day. I really don't miss it. Once in awhile (I haven't had surgery yet) I would get a diet pop just because it sounded good, after I kicked the habit. It was never that good, certainly not so refreshing.

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Edited December 9, 2016 by bananashake

[gustavio 439]

Thank you for that very instructional post, not sure why you thought you had to school me on carbonation. I'm just looking to encourage and be encouraged not be drilled down like you did.

Thanks anyways. Have a nice one.

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She was trying to educate you and anyone else who sees this because you were giving out inaccurate information.

Well there is a nice way to do it and a condescending way to do it.

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I swear, @Gustavio....you have a serious habit of poking at certain vets on this board and if you run them off before I get through this surgery and get to my 5 year mark, I'm gonna be very, very irritated. I NEED them. You don't seem to realize that you may need them, too.

Lol whaaatttt? I just don't like the cattiness that some display to newbies. It is unnecessary and I've seen waaaay more people offended by them than by me. Coincidentally, the only ones offended are them. Hmm. So if anyone is running anyone off, it is "them". No need to worry, they won't be run off. They live for the drama they create, my dear.

Not to mention, there are MANY MANY vets on here way more helpful and supportive than that handful that you seem to so desperately seek the approval of. Me on the other hand? I'm good without the "click". I don't have a burning desire to be accepted into the not so "in" crowd.

And for the record, most are blocked so I don't have to read their negativity. I was once the newbie being ganged up on for what they deemed "a dumb question or choice" so if I want to stand up for another, so be it.

Oh, and if you don't like that-so be it.

I'm on here to be supportive and accept support from the others who have been there and done that. But don't need rudeness or condescending remarks. Why does this make me a bad guy?

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Edited December 9, 2016 by gustavio

[ShelterDog64 2,364]

It's 'clique' and I don't think any of us are eligible until we can post in the Vet's Forum. And for what it's worth and to prove a danged point, my post was meant TOTALLY tongue in cheek. The point being that TOO MUCH IS READ INTO WHAT PEOPLE TYPE. Peace, sister.

[Babbs 14,681]

Is this the thread where someone answers a question, and the newbie gets all annoyed because they didn't like the answer/tone?

I thought so.

[ShelterDog64 2,364]

Is this the thread where someone answers a question, and the newbie gets all annoyed because they didn't like the answer/tone?

I thought so.

Oh, @@Babbs, you live for the drama you create, donchaknow? And I'm apparently someone's 'dear'. Thank God for RDjr

[gustavio 439]

It's 'clique' and I don't think any of us are eligible until we can post in the Vet's Forum. And for what it's worth and to prove a danged point, my post was meant TOTALLY tongue in cheek. The point being that TOO MUCH IS READ INTO WHAT PEOPLE TYPE. Peace, sister.

Thanks for the spelling lesson.

This is the exact catty behavior I was speaking of.

Thanks for displaying it.

Peace to you also. ????️

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[emardee 192]

Next summer, I will be just about a year out and I think it would be nice to have the occasional diet soda at a baseball game. But it would be occasional -- like you, I had a hard core diet Pepsi habit. I had surgery in August, haven't had any carbonation since then (my surg team recommends against it) but I think maybe, someday, it would be nice.

For crying out loud, what a thread.

Put me in the 'no soda' basket. Everyone knows regular soda is bad, but diet soda is increasingly being linked to metabolic problems. I've heard more than once from people in bariatrics say that not everyone who drinks soda (diet or otherwise, and many/most who have had WLS drink diet) re-gains weight, but almost everyone who regains weight is a soda drinker. Also, the phosphorus in soda displaces the Calcium in your bones and teeth, increasing your already-increased risk for osteoporosis.

I had a baaaaad Diet Pepsi habit from age 10-33 or so. I was able to quit it by drinking Lacroix soda Water, then I quit drinking that, too. It helped.

I'm not saying I'd never, ever have another drink of soda, but I wouldn't ever purchase more than a single unit. I'm not chancing my health or my weight for pop. That's just my two cents.

From the looks of this thread, it's a highly personal decision that people base on their own reasons, and people have strong opinions about it- both the sleevers and their bariatric teams. It's ultimately up to you. I will say, I was very hardcore about my Diet Pepsi back in the day. I really don't miss it. Once in awhile (I haven't had surgery yet) I would get a diet pop just because it sounded good, after I kicked the habit. It was never that good, certainly not so refreshing.

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[sandra_dee 57]

Is this the thread where someone answers a question, and the newbie gets all annoyed because they didn't like the answer/tone?

I thought so.

Lmfao! You all are incredible. Text book version of cyber "mean girls". You all don't support- you talk down on newbies.

You should have at least acknowledged that I corrected you, the vet, with facts. But then again, what can I say about a person like you.

You all can have your forum this is worse than middle school. You probably got picked on as a child and now you take it out on people here. Lol.

Because of people like you people commit suicide, you don't know what a person is going through, when you attack them on social platform but hey I guess that's way it goes here.

I'll can tell you and your clique are strong, sad that it's useless.

????

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[toofatnopants 33]

My surgeon or nutritionist hasn't mentioned either Soda or coffee and there is nothing in my surgery manual about avoiding these items. That being said, the first thing I cut out was Soda. The big 44oz cup of Big Red from the local gas station had to go! I don't even want to think about the calories that were in that one drink. I'm Soda free for over three months and honestly don't miss it.

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[sunsetsue 67]

Lol omg I'm just here eating my pretend popcorn with the Michael Jackson face reading these back and forth comments lol

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[ShelterDog64 2,364]

It's 'clique' and I don't think any of us are eligible until we can post in the Vet's Forum. And for what it's worth and to prove a danged point, my post was meant TOTALLY tongue in cheek. The point being that TOO MUCH IS READ INTO WHAT PEOPLE TYPE. Peace, sister.

Thanks for the spelling lesson.

This is the exact catty behavior I was speaking of.

Thanks for displaying it.

Peace to you also.

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No, this is NOT how this works. You don't get to call people who agree with one another 'clicks' or however you wish to spell it, and then call someone else catty as though you aren't being catty as well. THIS is the problem on this forum, not 'mean girls' or repetitive newbie questions or vets vs newbies or anything else. It's thin-skinned people who can't take what they dish and can't handle an answer to a question unless the answer is presented to them on a carefully cushioned platter of fake 'support'. As usual, my hat is off to the vets who've stuck around for years.

[wendypenn 13]

My doctor and nutritionist refer to the sleeve as a pouch.

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