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01-17-2013, 02:39 PM
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Melissa
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smacking my forehead! It wasn't DIET!!!!
My one vice is diet soda. I simply cannot give it up, but I am trying to go caffeine free, so I bought caffeine free diet pepsi. or so I thought.
Today, While I was drinking the FOURTH can in two days, I realize it's not diet!!!! It's regular. I poured out the remaining 3/4s of that can, but man... that's an extra 450 plus calories I consumed between yesterday and today - it ate up about half my caloric deficit - or what I though was my caloric deficit.
Darn it!!!!! I never, ever, ever drink my calories. If wanted to splurge, it would have been on cookies or chocolate, not SODA! I didn't really notice it until I was drinking it alone and not with a meal. All of a sudden I was like, "Wait... this feels really sweet and then I see the can and GASP!!!!!
Next time I buy at the store, I need to be more careful caffeine free and DIET!!!!
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01-17-2013, 02:42 PM
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Awwwww, I have been there, done that!!! The 7Up bottles look so similar, now I check and doublecheck and check again lol.
I don't have any advice that you wouldn't know already (chalk it up and write it off, do a bit more exercise, scream your head off and forget it lol).
Just wanted you to know I share your frustration and yes, my extra calories are for cookies or chocolate too!
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01-17-2013, 02:43 PM
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Melissa
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Yep, I think I'm going to do some extra cardio today just to feel better about it. Darn it!!!!!
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01-17-2013, 02:56 PM
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Aw, sorry about the mix up!
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01-17-2013, 03:01 PM
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Melissa
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Quote:
Originally Posted by elvislover324
Awwwww, I have been there, done that!!! The 7Up bottles look so similar, now I check and doublecheck and check again lol.
I don't have any advice that you wouldn't know already (chalk it up and write it off, do a bit more exercise, scream your head off and forget it lol).
Just wanted you to know I share your frustration and yes, my extra calories are for cookies or chocolate too!
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Since I don't usually buy caffeine free, I didn't really take note of it carefully - I know gold means caffeine free, but I also usually buy coke and diet caffeine free coke is gold. Regular caffeine free coke is red with gold lettering.
I see how it happened, but to not notice it until the fourth can???? ARGH!
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01-17-2013, 03:04 PM
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Can we call it a (berry) blonde(boys) moment?
Bummer! Sorry to hear it! I'm the same...chocolate takes up any extra calories I may have. Extra cardio will help.
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01-17-2013, 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by berryblondeboys
I see how it happened, but to not notice it until the fourth can???? ARGH!
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Lol, that you are on your own with! I have no idea about that!! At least it wasn't after the 12th!!
Cardio would definitely make me feel a little better, I just hate when I do things like that!!
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01-17-2013, 03:10 PM
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Ok, I have to say that I read the title to this very, very wrong. As in thinking "it wasn't my diet that made me put back on a few pounds, it was something else." I thought this was going to be a pregnancy announcement!
sorry about the wasted calories, it's frustrating when you think you are doing something right. But luckily you figured it out before you drank the whole pack!
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01-17-2013, 03:33 PM
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Melissa
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Originally Posted by elvislover324
Lol, that you are on your own with! I have no idea about that!! At least it wasn't after the 12th!!
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The two cans I drank yesterday was with lunch - sip, eat, sip eat. I was eating apple with peanut butter and cinnamon, so it already feels/is sweet, what's a little more sweetness?
Today, I drank one with lunch and again didn't notice. It was that I opened the second can for today and I took a sip and was like "wow - sweet" and looked at the can.
And yes, cardio will make me feel better. yesterday was a lighter day and today wasn't terribly hard iether. I could use it anyway and this "boo-boo" just wants to make me do SOMETHING to at least sort of make it better.
Doesn't help that right now sugars are worse for my body because I had a cortisone shot a month ago. UGH! Oh seems that's OK now - just made Christmas loads of fun (and led to my huge weight gain!)
Last edited by berryblondeboys; 01-17-2013 at 03:38 PM.
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01-17-2013, 04:34 PM
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I can just picture you "seeing" that non-diet can, then throwing it in rage into your TV screen as it shatters.
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01-17-2013, 04:49 PM
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Melissa
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Quote:
Originally Posted by April Snow
Ok, I have to say that I read the title to this very, very wrong. As in thinking "it wasn't my diet that made me put back on a few pounds, it was something else." I thought this was going to be a pregnancy announcement!
sorry about the wasted calories, it's frustrating when you think you are doing something right. But luckily you figured it out before you drank the whole pack!
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Too funny! I didn't even think how it could be read in so many different ways, but you're right.
And bite your tongue about pregnancy! While I know the pain of infertility, at 43 (and my husband 46) and two kids - 16 and 7 - the oldest with bad adhd and the youngest with Asperger's, a pregnancy is NOT wanted! Besides all the "Oh my god we're starting over AGAIN" I was be scared to death something would be wrong, really wrong with the baby.
All you young-uns can have the babies. I'm DONE!
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01-17-2013, 04:50 PM
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Melissa
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Originally Posted by tricon7
I can just picture you "seeing" that non-diet can, then throwing it in rage into your TV screen as it shatters.
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Well, I don't get in a rage, but I'm sure my jaw dropped for real and then I promptly went to the bathroom and dumped at the full can of soda.
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01-17-2013, 06:11 PM
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Oh no! What a mixup! I'd be freaking out, too, especially since I tend to have a whole ten or so grams of sugar (that's naturally occurring in my foods) any added sugar would be incredibly noticeable. I'm glad you figured it out sooner than later, though!
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01-17-2013, 08:11 PM
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Ugh that is freaking awful. Sorry to hear that.
If it makes you feel better, you're not alone. I completely gave up caffeine last week and am drinking those types of sodas too. I have a diet caffeine free mt. dew with me at the moment. You know, I actually feel a bit better without it.
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01-18-2013, 10:46 PM
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Easy enough to do. When Sierra Mist came out, it was supposed to be better than 7-UP, less cals, etc. according to ads.
Grabbed one for a change of pace while waiting to check out at Wal-mart, read the label! OMG! Not better than regular 7-Up. Put it back, got diet PEPSI!
I have turned into a nutrition label reading fool! I'm a Weight Watcher person, and I read labels, and whip out my app on my phone for WW points and calc stuff. Sometimes other brands are better than WW, depending on points and I also check the sodium.
I'm pretty sure I annoy a lot of shoppers when I'm hogging a spot in an aisle with my phone out and 3 or 4 similar products in my cart calculating all the stuff!
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