Coffee or Diet Coke ?

If you're ultimate goal is to give up both it doesn't particularly matter which one you start with, you'll end up in the same place either way. It sounds like you're micromanaging details that don't ultimately matter. I'd save my brain power for something that actually helped like how I'm going to manage the headaches and grogginess of caffeine withdrawal. I'm not saying you shouldn't cut them, just that it will be tough.

Diet coke

How many calories are in the coffee? How much do you enjoy the coffee -- is it worth the tradeoff (other things you could consume with the calories) to you? I love coffee black, more than with stuff in it, so it's easy for me to think the obvious choice is to drink coffee black, but if you really love it as is and don't enjoy it so much black, you have to figure out if the calories are worth it. You also might be able to reduce the calories without reducing your enjoyment.

Diet Coke, eh, I don't see a particular reason to give that up as part of a weightloss plan. It's unlikely to affect weight loss unless you find you want to eat more in general when consuming it (it's never affected me that way), which is something you can figure out by tracking and seeing if you can stay in calories. I don't think there's anything wrong with cutting out diet soda if you want to, but I think sometimes something like that can seem easier than just creating a sensible diet with a calorie deficit and ends up detracting from the changes you need to make to reach your weight loss goal. If you drink a whole lot, try substituting some other beverages, though (water, for example).

JeepHair77 wrote: »

You can pry my coffee and Coke Zero out of my cold, dead hands.

Well, actually, thanks to coffee, those will be comfortably warm, dead hands. I believe I'll go get another cup of coffee.

Yes -- lately I've been drinking coffee largely because it's so delightfully warm! I would be so sad without it.

I used to use quite a bit of cream in my coffee, but i kept reducing the amount i put in, then I switched to original creamer and now I drink it black. I still drink Diet soda, but maybe 1 every other day. Coffee I cant give up though. My mind goes 1,000,000,000 miles an hour without it, and it is an appetite suppressant and that helps me so much, I drink like 5 cups a day.

wizzybeth wrote: »

I will never give up coffee. Ever. When I was doing WW back in the day, I phased out cream / milk in my coffee - I never drank it with sugar. It was a transition that took some time, but now - I only occasionally drink coffee with milk - in the form of a latte, and it's a hot liquid dessert, NOT coffee. Coffee to me is hot, strong, and black. Calories in black coffee are minimal - like 5 per cup or something.

As to Diet Coke - I never liked diet soda. I did phase out regular soda because I didn't feel the calories were worth it. If I want a fizzy drink I drink club soda or seltzer on ice with a squeeze of lemon or lime.

For the record - my good friend "weaned" herself off diet coke - she adored it, drank lots of it every day - but her family convinced her to eliminate it for her health. She has been off it for months - and she is disappointed that she doesn't feel any different than she did while she enjoyed her diet coke. So there's that. I know that's just her experience and your results will vary. But there you go.

I'm in this camp -- I pretty much quit diet soda (I have them occasionally when I'm eating out, but that's it) to save money and the effort of lugging it home from the store and I feel exactly the same.