first day, i hurt, lol please come on in

mmurphy8316

its my first day changing my diet. Everything went great, I enjoyed cooking, looking the calories up, drinking water, ect ect.

However,,, my body is hurting, my head hurts, my stomach is full but i keep eating things at night now.. I've had a bowl of oatmeal and some really low cal stirfry I made my stomach is full but I still feel the need to eat.

I use to drink crazy amounts of diet coke,, I've not had any in over 24 hours...

Thoughts, advice to stop wanting to snack? When will the diet coke pains go away?

SouthernMamaUnderConsruction

You may want to slowly come off the soda. Sounds like the headache may be lack of caffeine.

mmurphy8316

i did have 3 teabags worth of black tea today.

mmurphy8316

lol sounds like i ate them,, i kinda feel like i'd try it right now

JeromeBarry1

Dude, have a diet Coke. It's ok.

heybales

Why drop the Diet Coke - no calories anyway?

Also - you feeling full, and your body being fully fed - are 2 entirely different things.

If you cut calories way too aggressively for amount to lose to healthy weight, body isn't going to be happy and will rebel sooner or later and make this harder than it needs to be.
May have started already if those kinds of hunger signals.

mmurphy8316

diet coke is terrible, its toxic to the body, I've known this for a long time but still drank it, i want to get rid of it 100%, I've had about 1900 calories from very healthy foods.

MichelleSilverleaf

mmurphy8316 wrote: »

diet coke is terrible, its toxic to the body, I've known this for a long time but still drank it, i want to get rid of it 100%, I've had about 1900 calories from very healthy foods.

Diet coke (or any soda) would only be toxic if you were drinking an absurdly large amount that you likely weren't even close to getting. Anything can be toxic in the right amount, water included, odds are you probably didn't drink nearly enough for that to be a worry. Me personally I've never found the appeal of diet drinks, they all taste horrible. Different strokes for different folks though.

mmurphy8316

i loved the taste of it, coke is too sweet for me, however diet coke had a taste i really enjoyed. I was drink around 4 liters a day. I'd rather stop that bad habit and switch to tea.

corgi_05

I have the same issue. I try to start eating less carbs but when I do I immediately get hungry again less than an hour later than before I know it I have eaten every hour! Would love to hear how you combatted this.

heybales

Why do you think it's toxic, just diet coke or all diet's, or just coke perhaps?
Some of the flavorings I'm sure could be interesting, sure has some acidic aspect that can effect teeth enamel like most pop.

1900 sounds decent - unless you have super active job and working out burning say 3500 on the big days.
In which case - extreme deficit.

Just saying, the 1900 in a vacuum can't be discerned if good or bad - depends. The healthy aspect does mean something for volume usually and nutrition, but not for eating enough calories.

Also, if body is stressed fighting a disease, what's reasonable for healthy body won't be for a sick one.

(wow, some cloudfront issue required me to post that as each paragraph separately)

88olds

Your head might hurt from caffeine withdrawal. I quit Diet Coke, only to let it start creeping back into my life after years without it. It’s tough.

But why do it now? If you’re working at weight loss, there’s a significant calorie counting learning curve. Maybe don’t take on so many things once.

mazcor536

Diet Coke has 12.96mg of caffeine per 100ml.
A tea bag has 11mg of caffeine.
You say you were drinking 4 litres of Diet Coke per day? That’s 518mg of caffeine. Daily.
You’d have to have 47 tea bags a day to match that caffeine intake (can someone check my maths, brain not operating today). You’ve got some serious caffeine withdrawal going on, my friend!
You should cut that down gradually otherwise you’re going to feel awful for a while. I mean, obviously, you can cold turkey it and you will emerge, alive, at the end of it, but why suffer if you don’t have to.
If you don’t want to go back to Diet Coke, perhaps something else with a bit more of a caffeine kick to it.

kdbulger

Exactly this. This is a huge caffeine withdrawal. I recognize you want to get rid of the influence of diet coke. Just be prepared, it'll hurt for a while.

mazcor536 wrote: »

Diet Coke has 12.96mg of caffeine per 100ml.
A tea bag has 11mg of caffeine.
You say you were drinking 4 litres of Diet Coke per day? That’s 518mg of caffeine. Daily.
You’d have to have 47 tea bags a day to match that caffeine intake (can someone check my maths, brain not operating today). You’ve got some serious caffeine withdrawal going on, my friend!
You should cut that down gradually otherwise you’re going to feel awful for a while. I mean, obviously, you can cold turkey it and you will emerge, alive, at the end of it, but why suffer if you don’t have to.
If you don’t want to go back to Diet Coke, perhaps something else with a bit more of a caffeine kick to it.

JaydedMiss

i love diet soda...its diet...its fine your having withdrawl why make things complicated? youve been listening to woo its not harmful your going to burn yourself out making to many changes at once and thats an unnecessary one. Cut it if you want, But slowly.

susanpiper57

I am with you on the diet coke, but if you are ovehauling your diet completely, I would start in increments rather than everything at once. Maybe either focus on your eating or your beverage intake for a week, and then implement the other piece. Good luck!

mmurphy8316

thanks everyone, I am the type of person that has to cut everything I see bad at once and then suffer through it. I kinda enjoy the suffering cause I know its the bad stuff leaving me body.. I'll read up on good ways to help cut caffeine. That you everyone for spending some time to address my issues

catherineroberts87

Definitely caffeine withdrawals by the sounds of it. Never had an issue with coke as such but I used to drink around 5/6 cups of coffee each day and like you I decided to go cold turkey and quit and my headaches were horrendous and I had body aches and felt dizzy, also slept during the day for a few hours which I never do....unfortunately the headaches lasted 2/3 weeks but I suffered through it, just drink loads of water take painkillers etc whatever you can to get through it because diet Coke is full of toxic chemicals better to suffer through the pain for a short while than have that in your body I reckon.
Good luck! It’ll be worth it

Italiana_xx79

I use to drink so much diet coke everyday that I didn't realize it was such an obsession until I tried to stop, lol! Anyway, one day I just challenged myself to go all day with a diet soda (trust me, it was a challenge!). I after I made it one day, I decided to do it again the next day. That was about a year and a half ago and still haven't had a diet coke since.

mmurphy8316

I know it is an obsession now, I use to smoke for about 8 years then quit cold turkey. I don't like things having so much power over me. I got this! Thank you everyone,