I think too often people think they will have to give up everything they love in exchange for this surgery and a weight loss. This is not true. You maybe one of those people who is able to drink carbonated beverages and to drink wine with dinner. I eat anything I want, and right now I have sinusitis which is affecting my health, but when I do feel just fine I will usually make a huge dinner. You can see a lot of the photographs of the food I cook in my profile pictures. But I do not eat all that food. I could not fit all that food in my body. Most of that food ends up being frozen or being doled out for five or six meals after being refrigerated. My pouch is still small although it is way bigger than the one that I had post-op. Instead of only being able to hold a couple of ounces, I probably can accommodate 8 oz of food and liquid simultaneously.
Because of this, I feel like I have been restored to normal. I had no weight problems whatsoever until after I gave birth at the age of 28. I am a Weight Watchers retread, and Overeaters Anonymous failure, and a fad diet myth.
I do not recommend my eating Behavior to anyone, but if you are like me, your body will let you know in its time. I can tell you for a fact my body told me a lot of things while I was losing the weight. There are a lot of foods I need to avoid, and eating small amounts extremely slowly doesn't even help. But when you look around at people today at Keto and vegan and gluten free and whatever all the rest of those diets are called, my idiomatic manner of eating is no stranger than any of those.
However, don't base any opinions on my Behavior. Only listen to your medical team. They're going to tell you you can never drink carbonated beverages again. Just agree with them and down the road, when you are fully healed, when you have dealt with your eating disorder, when you have taken a sip and it didn't make you sick, then you can make an informed decision based on your own body.
I am not trying to I am not trying to set an example for anybody. But I am trying to allow you to have some hope for normalcy in the future