Im cutting it out. Or at least trying to limit myself. It makes me burp, and I don't like that....although i just drank this diet coke, plus and its yummy.
For me, diet soda gives me really horrible headaches.
That's funny, I get the headache's without my daily diet Pepsi. I believe my body is now addicted to the caffeine. I tried to quit when my husband quit smoking and I was out of commission for 2 days. I called out of work one day because i could not get out of bed. I tried the waste watchers soda with no aspartame and caffeine, but I still feel like crap. I do not drink coffee, so the diet pepsi I drink it pretty much my source. I have 3 cans a day, one in the morning, one with lunch and one at night (sometimes more if I am stressed). As I said I have tried to give it up, but the physical pain is horrible
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OMG I LOVE DIET COKE> I really do believe that I am addicted to it. I try to only have one a day M-F. On the weekends onyl water and crystal light. People say it is bad for me but I love it and it is no calories.....
I just have to say that I might be the odd one of the group. I have never ever liked pop of any kind. I hate the way the carbonation feels on my tongue. It hurts when the bubbles pop.(I know that sounds weird). I have to be pretty sick to even stomach some sprite during the stomach flu. I also don't drink carbonated or flavored water. It is just icky to me. Yuck! My preferred beverage is plain old water.
I wonder if that has anything to do with my texture issue with fruit. I do not like the way it feels on my tongue! I have never connected the two before....hhhmmmm.....
I had gastric by-pass surgery in March of 2003 and I still can't drink soda's that well. I drink a lot of water and juice in moderation. I love diet sunkist orange drink but I've had to cut out a lot of soda's lately because of the caffeine. I have been having these hot flashes and they cause me to go into a panic attack..something I'm working on with the doctor. I've never heard of such but I'd wake up in the night having a hotflash and panic attack all the same time. I gave up the caffeine hoping I could sleep better and not have as been attacks at night. I'm better now.
My WW leader used to tell us not to drink carbonated drinks 48hrs before a weigh-in because the trapped gas makes it look like you've put on weight.
I love love LOVE diet coke/pepsi. I can't stand the regular stuff, it tastes far too sweet for my liking. Again, like someone has already mentioned, I have heard the good, the bad and the ugly about diet coke but I still drink it. I just love it. However, since I started this particular weight-loss effort, I've found I need it less, and often go a whole day without one.
Wow, Holy Hot Topic Batman.
Personally - I grew up on diet coke - and only stopped drinking it when the rumor about it causing Breast Cancer began raging. I am now a Cherry Coke Zero drinker. But one a day.
I also used to drink a pot of coffee a day and had to find a sugar substitute or face not eating dinner. I also cut the coffee back to once a day. So to me it is a necessary evil.
Do I believe it makes you way hungry? Yes. But I think I won that battle by just having it with a meal and with a load of ice. I guess the key to anything is having it in moderation.
Diet soda is my sanity saver. I try not to overdo it, as much for economy's sake since we're on such a tight budget as dietary (weight loss or health-wise). For me, it doesn't make me hungrier so much as some of my favorite high cal/carb snacks "go so well" with a soda. I love the crunchy/just a little salty snack with my diet soda. So, I've had to break the soda/snacking combination. I either drink a soda with a meal, or have it as a treat by itself. If I have it with a salty snack, I end up drinking more diet soda and eating more salty (and usually carby) snack, so I avoid the dreaded combination.
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I do believe it is bad for you, but I don't believe that one bad food item in a generally good diet is exactly the end of the world.
Personally I stopped drinking it because I read that it decreases thyroid function, and also because it strips the grime off an old penny. I don't want something that corrosive in my digestive tract. I do, however, succumb to the occasional use of artificial sweeteners. I asked a medical friend about them and she said 'I won't pretend I think they're good for you, but you do everything else right'. So on balance, there are worse things you could be drinking.
The "corosiveness" of soda is a myth. Mythbusters did an episode on soda myths, and they tested many of the popular soda myths. It cleaned chrome, coins, laundry stains and batteries no better than plain water.
