Giving up diet soda. So hard!
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I go through random binges of drinking diet soda. Months and months of just water with lemon and ice tea.. and then I have like two weeks of soda drinking.
I get it's zero calories, zero in all macros...but it's artificial terribleness. Also, what causes me to snap out of those binges is I start looking flabby. And also.. diet soda and cellulite are bffs.
http://www.livestrong.com/article/305514-diet-pop-and-cellulite/
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My hubby and I quit soda a long time ago and we replaced it with Crystal Light Ice Tea, it only has 5 calories a glass and after a while your craving for soda will go away
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Wow what a response this has drummed up! I just want to give you some support for giving up diet sodas. Plenty of studies show serious side effects of those chemicals. I gave up diet soda about 15 years ago (along with cigarettes) and I do not miss it. I drink water. Here's a tip: fill a beautiful glass pitcher with filtered water and add slices of orange and lemon, you can also add mint, any fruit you enjoy. Use organic fruit. Drink it throughout the day. BRAVO! You will save plenty of money and can use it instead on buying better quality foods. Take it day by day and reward yourself when you hit 30 days in a row free! Good luck.0
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Wanted to jump in real quick.. I chose to give up soda and aspartame. I cut back one soda a day and sustained that for 2 weeks. Third week cut back two sodas, etc.
I can now taste sodium if I have a sip of certain sodas. I dont like it. HAHAHA
Aspartame was more of a challenge for me. Those drink packets poured into bottled water were a lifesaver at work when I couldnt get away. Same process as with the soda.
I love filtered water, hot/iced herbal teas, soy milk, etc.
Best Wishes upon taking care of you!0 -
pizza is only good from top notch pizza joints. otherwise, it sucks.-1
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Aviva, you definitely have a flagging fiend after you or maybe they are a pizza maker from the east coast. Either way - what a jerk!
On the positive side, my post directing OP to MFP's Facebook page which received 7 flags for Spam and was sadly buried
has reappeared. Apparently, it was reviewed by MFP and they found that the article written by their own registered dietitian was not spam after all. 0 -
herrspoons wrote: »herrspoons wrote: »In this topic I have learned that the educational system is failing. Oh and giving up soft drinks and diet soft drinks is fine if that's your thing, but not really necessary and won't make the slightest difference if you still consume above your calorie allowance.
Apart from that... not a lot.
Yes I thought the same thing about the education system. They definitely need to concentrate on teaching manners.
I take it they didn't in your day?
My comment was a generalisation, yours was personal.
My kids would find it funny though as they would say to their friends who stayed for dinner "don't sit next to mum, she is a manners freak."
Yes Herrspoon, back in my day, manners were important and were a massive part of the education system. And yes, I do think it is something that is missing in todays society and is evident in the exchanges on this forum. Once again, a generalisation.0 -
BinaryPulsar wrote: »
there is a lot of really bad pizza on the east coast. i'm from new york.
There is also a lot of good pizza. I'm from Boston and lived in New York. My husband is from New Jersey. On the west coast pizza is only good from very good Italian restaurants. Also fresh made pasta is so yummy!
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BinaryPulsar wrote: »BinaryPulsar wrote: »
there is a lot of really bad pizza on the east coast. i'm from new york.
There is also a lot of good pizza. I'm from Boston and lived in New York. My husband is from New Jersey. On the west coast pizza is only good from very good Italian restaurants. Also fresh made pasta is so yummy!
maybe i'm picky then. most random pizza joints in ny just aren't good to me. they have to be really highly rated to be good.0 -
I've never had a great slice of pizza in NJ.BinaryPulsar wrote: »BinaryPulsar wrote: »
there is a lot of really bad pizza on the east coast. i'm from new york.
There is also a lot of good pizza. I'm from Boston and lived in New York. My husband is from New Jersey. On the west coast pizza is only good from very good Italian restaurants. Also fresh made pasta is so yummy!
I didn't like the pizza in NJ either, but it's very close to NY. We have lived and worked in NY. He has family in NY. We have a lot of friends in NY. Always go to NY when visiting NJ. I'm sure there are a lot of crappy pizza places. But, there are a lot of good pizza places to choose from. Don't go to the bad ones. Do go to the good ones. I have had good pizza in Boston and NY. That doesn't mean all the pizza places are good. But, if you know the area, you can choose good places. I miss it. But there was one good place in California. A couple good places here. But, those are restaurants. Not pizza delivery or grab it by the slice. If you move away, you will see the pizza in other places is often all bad (in my opinion). When I am back in Boston and NY I love having pizza (from good places, not every single place). This is in response to Aviva.
Edit to add: I did have good pizza on the Jersey Shore once.
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BinaryPulsar wrote: »
I've never had a great slice of pizza in NJ.BinaryPulsar wrote: »BinaryPulsar wrote: »
there is a lot of really bad pizza on the east coast. i'm from new york.
There is also a lot of good pizza. I'm from Boston and lived in New York. My husband is from New Jersey. On the west coast pizza is only good from very good Italian restaurants. Also fresh made pasta is so yummy!
I didn't like the pizza in NJ either, but it's very close to NY. We have lived and worked in NY. He has family in NY. We have a lot of friends in NY. Always go to NY when visiting NJ. I'm sure there are a lot of crappy pizza places. But, there are a lot of good pizza places to choose from. Don't go to the bad ones. Do go to the good ones. I have had good pizza in Boston and NY. That doesn't mean all the pizza places are good. But, if you know the area, you can choose good places. I miss it. But there was one good place in California. A couple good places here. But, those are restaurants. Not pizza delivery or grab it by the slice. If you move away, you will see the pizza in other places is often all bad (in my opinion). When I am back in Boston and NY I love having pizza (from good places, not every single place).
oh yeah, we have some good grab by the slice places here for sure.0 -
Everyone loves pizza.
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herrspoons wrote: »realharlot wrote: »realharlot wrote: »
You don't have time to post links to studies? Right. Maybe there are none.realharlot wrote: »While I can't be bothered to find it right now there are studies that show drinking diet soda can and will make you consume more calories. You're telling your brain that you are consuming very sugary things and then letting it know you lied to it.
In addition to that, when you drink sugary things all the time your tolerance for sweets goes way up. Soda suddenly doesn't taste as sweet as it used to because your taste buds have adjusted. If you spend a few months traveling India you probably wouldn't find Americanized Indian food very spicy anymore either. It's the same thing for sweet, salty, sour, and umami.
Think about the effect water is supposed to have in your body. It's supposed to replace the water that has been excreted (through crying, breathing, sweating, urinating, defecating, and menstruating). When you eat dry things it helps you push it along. Soda is basically sugary high ph acid for your body or low calorie chemical high ph acid for your body. When soda is your primary choice for liquid intake it's sure to take its toll on your organs.
It's all a matter of framing and finding a healthy substitute.
That said, maybe soda does make some people hungrier but not everyone.
Eating sweets might cause some people to want more but, again, not everyone.
Your assertions are very general.
Links to peer reviewed studies, please.
For you too, buddy! Clicky clicky!
Yeah, it seems to me you're trying to one up with your snark replies, but its not working. Your link is opinion only and not facts (as I posted a few posts up, but I guessed you missed it), therefore it is not all that reliable.
Have you found any peer reviewed studies to support your opinion?.
This is the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine article that was linked on the right hand side of the VIDEO you clicked play on:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892765/pdf/yjbm_83_2_101.pdf
It covers multiple clinical studies which can be cited with a teensy little bit of leg work. I consider it to be the most relevant seeing as it cites many opposed to few.
I've studied this - both the review paper (it's not a study) you link to and the referred studies. First of all, the control of confounding variables is at best dubious in a number of studies - for example, it is as likely that those using artificial sweetners were more prone to excess calorie consumption, and this was the cause of their weight gain, and that the use of sweeteners was incidental. As the review paper says:A strict differentiation between artificial sweetener users and non-users was not possible.
In other words, people who are more likely to over consume are more likely to use artificial sweeteners. It is not, however, the artificial sweeteners themselves that cause the weight gain. Again, as the review paper states:Vigilant monitoring, caloric restriction, and exercise were likely involved in the weight loss seen in multidisciplinary programs that included artificial sweeteners
Which is true - artificial sweeteners will not in themselves help weight loss. They are merely a means to potentially reduce calorie intake which will do nothing if overall calorie intake is not reduced.
So, unfortunately, this paper rather puts the cart before the horse and doesn't prove anything either way, hence the use of the word 'suggest' and, to be honest, the studies cited are so fundamentally flawed that they don't even suggest anything.
Yep. This author is trying to prove a link between artificial sweeteners with increased calorie consumption and higher BMI, but there is nothing on whether overeating was present prior to the studies, but my guess is that it was.
I love my sugar with a passion, as well as agave nectar and Stevia, but sometimes I'll put that splenda in my coffee at the coffee shop. Do I feel hungry after. No.
When I drank a liter of diet soda I was not any hungrier than usual, and my weight loss or gain or maintenance depended on what I chose to put in my mouth.
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realharlot wrote: »Thank you. Back later to read because we are out the door in a few.
THANK YOU.
Why are shouting? I hear just fine.
I replied to your "study" just above.0 -
sewright84 wrote: »My hubby and I quit soda a long time ago and we replaced it with Crystal Light Ice Tea, it only has 5 calories a glass and after a while your craving for soda will go away
Crystal Light has artificial sweetener, correct? Do you feel hungrier drinking it?
I like Crystal Light as well, but it is sometimes too sweet for me.0 -
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OK after 15 pages of reading for and against soda, pizza and goodness knows what else, I have made my decision.
Yes, I love pizza - the good healthy, homemade or good restaurant type pizza (wheat free for me) Yummy!!! Not a problem.
Soda of any type - forget it!! It has no nutritional value whatsoever and is a waste of my tummy space.
Hoooooorrrrrrrroooooo
Edited because I couldn't spell "hooroo" and I realised I was shouting.0 -
Interestingly, the demands to know why people want to do things only come up in the threads where people wish to discourage the behavior. I believe many people ask why just so that they can argue with the reason and mock the OP if the OP believes things they don't believe.lemurcat12 wrote: »lemurcat12 wrote: »Mamapeach, why the interest in getting people to drink diet soda? I would have thought someone with your medical history would be more interested in nutrition.
She's debunking false information. She has not expressed an interest in whether anyone drinks diet soda or not. Sometimes it seems like some people (you know who you are) would prefer that false information not be debunked if that false information might scare others into doing what you think is in their best interest. I think that's horrible, and that it's more important to have as much accurate information as possible. Then other adults can decide what they want to do based on facts.
Yes, I'm an eternal optimist.
For me, it's not that. It's about respecting their decision. Their reasons don't matter.
I don't believe that seeking more information to better give them the advice asked for or to have a discussion is "not respecting their decision." I see it as having a discussion and sharing thoughts and experience. I've also seen tons of people on these boards seem genuinely relieved in realizing that their diet didn't have to be as onerous as all that. I've also seen people get upset because others didn't go along with their super special cleanse plan, of course (OP is not in that category in any way), but I still think it was good people shared the facts.
I have yet to see the mocking crowd ask anyone Why they want to increase their protein or throw out the Science! that suggests there is no benefit to going over a certain amount. When people ask how to increase protein, they're given answers. When they ask for helpful strategies to decrease pop or sweets, they get asked why and then mocked.
Not you, personally, but it happens. A lot.
If people want to cut pop, for whatever reason, they should be able to discuss it without being discouraged, much less mocked. It certainly won't harm them.
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