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I'm on the payroll of big Snickers. That's why I'm always pushing them in the threads where people say they can't hit their calorie goal.
Or I'm just fond of Snickers and they're calorie dense. You decide.5 -
Christine_72 wrote: »I'm genuinely curious how often/how much the vehement pro diet soda advocates drink diet soda... Everyday, regularly? Knowing this will make their position a lot easier to understand
Pretty sure you've asked this in a bunch of threads and gotten answers that I don't recall you responding to.
I wouldn't consider myself a diet soda advocate, let alone vehement, but I will respond to false claims about anything, including diet soda.
I have maybe 2 diet sodas (diet coke, specifically) per week, sometimes more, but I never drink it daily. That's not because I think it's bad for me, but I mostly prefer non sweet drinks (like coffee or iced coffee) and mostly don't find diet soda super thirst-quenching (I don't find coffee all that thirst-quenching either, but I drink it for taste).5 -
Has your curiosity been assuaged @Christine_72 ?4
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Has your curiosity been assuaged @Christine_72 ?
Yes it has, I got some insightful answers
Not pro diet soda, but anti scaremongering. 2 -
Christine_72 wrote: »Has your curiosity been assuaged @Christine_72 ?
Yes it has, I got some insightful answers Not pro diet soda, but anti scaremongering.
Nice summarising!
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NoLimitAsLimit wrote: »Aaron_K123 wrote: »Just to turn that question around is there anyone here who genuinely believes that a good way to lose weight is to focus on getting over a diet soda habit?
No ones saying that. For me, anything that can't be made in a kitchen I wouldn't consume daily.
Would you apply that to vitamins and medicines as well?
I don't consume either. I don't get sick. My diet & my immune system is pretty bad *kitten*.
Edit: and I said daily not never.1 -
clicketykeys wrote: »Christine_72 wrote: »I'm genuinely curious how often/how much the vehement pro diet soda advocates drink diet soda... Everyday, regularly? Knowing this will make their position a lot easier to understand
I pack a 20-oz bottle with the lunch that I take to school each day, so 5/week. Plus I might get a 20-oz bottle from the vending machine once every week or two. Don't order it at restaurants, because it's ridiculously overpriced. However, I put artificial sweetener in many of the other beverages I drink (tea, coffee, lemonade) as well. So, soda pretty regularly but not in large amounts. Artificial sweetener, all the kittening time.NoLimitAsLimit wrote: »Aaron_K123 wrote: »Just to turn that question around is there anyone here who genuinely believes that a good way to lose weight is to focus on getting over a diet soda habit?
No ones saying that. For me, anything that can't be made in a kitchen I wouldn't consume daily.
This is an unbelievably broad statement. You always have to bring SOME ingredients INTO the kitchen to make the foods. So... what's okay to bring in? Obviously not soda. Flour? I can't make that in my kitchen either. But it's okay to use as an ingredient, I'm guessing. So the soda must be okay to bring in if you use it as an ingredient but not by itself.
So by this logic, it would be perfectly find to bring diet Coke and rum into my kitchen and mix them... and consume them daily!
Lol. Mate, flour can be made in the kitchen. If you don't believe me type it into YouTube. Nice try haha.0 -
NoLimitAsLimit wrote: »NoLimitAsLimit wrote: »Aaron_K123 wrote: »Just to turn that question around is there anyone here who genuinely believes that a good way to lose weight is to focus on getting over a diet soda habit?
No ones saying that. For me, anything that can't be made in a kitchen I wouldn't consume daily.
Would you apply that to vitamins and medicines as well?
I don't consume either. I don't get sick. My diet & my immune system is pretty bad *kitten*.
But you don't apply that rule to the whey protein supplement you drank Thursday and today.
Not quite seeing the distinction?
One item made in a drink factory and one item made in a food factory.6 -
NoLimitAsLimit wrote: »NoLimitAsLimit wrote: »Aaron_K123 wrote: »Just to turn that question around is there anyone here who genuinely believes that a good way to lose weight is to focus on getting over a diet soda habit?
No ones saying that. For me, anything that can't be made in a kitchen I wouldn't consume daily.
Would you apply that to vitamins and medicines as well?
I don't consume either. I don't get sick. My diet & my immune system is pretty bad *kitten*.
But you don't apply that rule to the whey protein supplement you drank Thursday and today.
Not quite seeing the distinction?
One item made in a drink factory and one item made in a food factory.
You do realise I said daily right?0 -
NoLimitAsLimit wrote: »NoLimitAsLimit wrote: »NoLimitAsLimit wrote: »Aaron_K123 wrote: »Just to turn that question around is there anyone here who genuinely believes that a good way to lose weight is to focus on getting over a diet soda habit?
No ones saying that. For me, anything that can't be made in a kitchen I wouldn't consume daily.
Would you apply that to vitamins and medicines as well?
I don't consume either. I don't get sick. My diet & my immune system is pretty bad *kitten*.
But you don't apply that rule to the whey protein supplement you drank Thursday and today.
Not quite seeing the distinction?
One item made in a drink factory and one item made in a food factory.
You do realise I said daily right?
So drinking a diet drink six days a week would be OK with you?4 -
Oh I see how this works. The goalposts were here but then, just for fun, they were moved over there. And soon, because also fun, they'll be moved further over there. Ah such hijinks.8
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NoLimitAsLimit wrote: »NoLimitAsLimit wrote: »NoLimitAsLimit wrote: »Aaron_K123 wrote: »Just to turn that question around is there anyone here who genuinely believes that a good way to lose weight is to focus on getting over a diet soda habit?
No ones saying that. For me, anything that can't be made in a kitchen I wouldn't consume daily.
Would you apply that to vitamins and medicines as well?
I don't consume either. I don't get sick. My diet & my immune system is pretty bad *kitten*.
But you don't apply that rule to the whey protein supplement you drank Thursday and today.
Not quite seeing the distinction?
One item made in a drink factory and one item made in a food factory.
You do realise I said daily right?
So drinking a diet drink six days a week would be OK with you?
Where did you get that idea from? Not I.4 -
NoLimitAsLimit wrote: »NoLimitAsLimit wrote: »NoLimitAsLimit wrote: »NoLimitAsLimit wrote: »Aaron_K123 wrote: »Just to turn that question around is there anyone here who genuinely believes that a good way to lose weight is to focus on getting over a diet soda habit?
No ones saying that. For me, anything that can't be made in a kitchen I wouldn't consume daily.
Would you apply that to vitamins and medicines as well?
I don't consume either. I don't get sick. My diet & my immune system is pretty bad *kitten*.
But you don't apply that rule to the whey protein supplement you drank Thursday and today.
Not quite seeing the distinction?
One item made in a drink factory and one item made in a food factory.
You do realise I said daily right?
So drinking a diet drink six days a week would be OK with you?
Where did you get that idea from? Not I.
It is a logical summation of your points assuming you are being consistent.
Referring to diet soda you statedFor me, anything that can't be made in a kitchen I wouldn't consume daily.
Thus implying that your litmus test for food and drink you would consume daily is what you stated and since diet soda doesn't qualify you wouldn't drink it daily.
Someone pointed out that you drink shakes made from whey protein, a product you wouldn't be able to make in your kitchen and you respondedYou do realise I said daily right?
thus emphasising that this rule only applies if you drink or eat something everyday.
From that one would logically conclude you would have no problem drinking diet soda as long as it wasn't every single day, thus you wouldnt take issue with drinking it 6 days a week.
I'm pretty sure that is why he reached that conclusion, because logically it follows from what you said about your criteria.
I think the deeper implication being your kitchen rule isn't your actual criteria for avoiding diet soda.
But all of this is getting a bit pedantic and silly...I just enjoy silly sometimes. Personally I only take issue with people falsely claiming diet soda is toxic or dangerous or damaging to health or weight loss and I dont see you doing that. I don't really care if people just choose to avoid it themselves for whatever reason.14 -
Myprotein Impact Whey Protein ingredients:
Strawberry Cream Flavour: Whey Protein Concentrate (Milk) (96%), Emulsifier (Soy Lecithin), Flavouring, Colour (Beetroot Red), Sweetener (Sucralose)
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You didn't have to switch your diary to private, it's OK to eat sucralose even if you couldn't make it in your kitchen.
I tend to mostly avoid it as I find it has a metallic aftertaste to me. The Protein Works do a range with Stevia as the sweetener which I prefer for my occasional use.
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unsuspectingfish wrote: »I kicked diet soda once upon a time by switching to sparkling water, since it was almost impossible to kick carbonation entirely.
Excellent job trading flavored sparkling water for unflavored sparkling water.
There's also flavored sparkling water, though? I traded sweetened, dyed sparkling water for unsweetened, clear sparkling water.2
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