lost a lot of weight from cutting out soda

stacydc83

About two months ago, I decided I was done with diet coke, aspartame, and then decided all sodas had to go. I was about 126 lbs at the time, I'm down to about 115. Normally, this would be a great thing. I wasn't trying to lose weight, and I've always lost weight pretty easily, and at times I would get too thin. I'm on that route again, accidentally. What can I do, to make up for the calories I was apparently getting while I drank soda? I try to eat at least twice a day, but sometimes I just don't have the time. Thanks for any and all advice

queenliz99

Since diet soda have virtually no calories, what else did you cut out in calories?

arditarose

Yeah I'm confused...how much regular soda were you drinking in addition to diet soda?

stacydc83

regular soda too. Sorry I didn't specify that. At first I had decided only diet soda because of aspartame, but decided "hey why not get rid of all soda too" so stopped all soda intake. Now I drink maybe one sweet tea a day, and a lot of water

Liftng4Lis

So you cut the calories from regular soda, which resulted in a deficit, thus you lost weight. Nice job.

mirrim52

If you are just looking to make up the calories you lost drinking soda in order to gain weight again, you can drink juice instead. Really, you can make up the calories with whatever you want, food, beverage, chocolate...

AsISmile

I've had the same happen. I tried filling up the calories with "healthy" nutrutious foods. Unfortunately they were low calorie, requiring a large volume.
That did not go so well. So if you normally get your micronutrients in with your meals, just eat whatever. Juice, milk, ice cream, potatoe chips, granola bars, cookies, etc.

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ndj1979

i am confused…are you trying to lose, maintain, or gain OP???

xcalygrl

I'm assuming you wanted to maintain your weight, but you wanted to give up soda for health reasons, right?

If that's the case, you need to replace the calories you cut out when you quit drinking soda. It's fairly easy: choose high calorie items that aren't a lot of volume:
nut butters
oils
butter
avocado
cheese
ice cream
higher fat cuts of meat (i.e. like 80/20 ground beef instead of 90/10)

There are others I can't think of. Those are low volume, high calorie foods. You can get 2 tablespoons of peanut butter and get in 180-220 calories, which is more than a can of regular Coca-Cola.

LastingChanges

You can have some fruits ? Nuts? Could be better replacements for soda calories.

Yi5hedr3

Great! Now cut out milk and bread, and increase healthy fats