I'm sorry I'm new to all this so please bear with me. I posted all wrong the other day and I didn't mean to. Any way I am doing the atkins diet and I want to make sure I understood right. I am allowed to have diet soda if it is caffeine free, is that correct?
Thanks, Chelly
PS What kind of spices do you use to help out with flavor on your meats. Is there a certain brand that doesn't have sugar in them?

Diet with no caffeine is fine - I do sneak a diet coke on occasion and it has not seemed to bother me!

Most spices are sugar free - if they contain any sugar it will say on the label...garlic, dill week, salt, pepper, paprika any of those will work!!

Welcome!!

I DO drink my diet soda even with the caffiene.

But the rreason not to drink any diet soda is

1 the fake sugars are really not that good for you anyways. many feel that nutrasweet can cause many other helath problems and prefer to go all nautrual with just water and believe it or not you willg et to crave water after a few weeks of no soday!!

2 is the fake sugars can actually trigger reactions like the release of insulin in the body like driving past a bakery can trigger cravings, and make your mouth water or the smell of frenchfries, or pizza. Kind of like the dinner bell and dog reaction. that is the biggest reason for the no soda.

For the no caffiene reason is that caffiene is a diuretic, and your body craves the fluid, once we lose the extra glycogen stores in our body (the body has a reserve store of glycogen when we eat carbo foods, in the muscles which is why the runners and athletes carb load the day before a race or event) the glycogen stores the water. but as we do not have that reserve store and we utilize protein for our glucose production (gluconeogenisis) we do not keep store in our body, we can not afford to get dehydrated as when we get dehydrated our kidney function goes down, our mind gets foggy (ever have a headach?? and drinking releaves the pain??) and our body actyally feel hungry. so we eat instead of drink a glass of water.

The body has a very weak thirst impulse. thirst is manifested by hunger headaches (more severe) but may of the problems can be aleviated with a glass of water.


So did I convince you to drink water???

many feel that if you do choose to drik coffee you must NOT count that as a glass of fluid and drink an extra one for that. so if you drink 1 cup of coffee you must drink a cup of water to counteract that before counting your 8 - 10 glasses of water.

Also your body requires when losing weight to drink 1/2 oz of water for every 1 lb you weigh so if you weigh 200 you must take in 100 oz of water.

I use taco seasonings and curry to spice up my meats chelly.

Welcome

I add basil to my chicken, and DH adds Lemon Pepper to eveything.