Down to one diet coke a day...

NickyCat101
NickyCat101 Posts: 69
edited October 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I am down to one diet coke a day and already I notice the difference. I only have one in the morning to curb the caffeine cravings until I find a substitute. Sweets are sickening to me and I do not want any fried foods. Healthy foods taste better but I am just so sleepy. I can't get passed the sleepiness in the morning and give in to a diet coke.

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  • Mmmary212
    Mmmary212 Posts: 410 Member
    Take lots of B vitamins.
  • Carrot1971
    Carrot1971 Posts: 272 Member
    Thats my downfall..Diet Coke. I have a couple a day. But I do drink alot of water so I guess in my mind I can deal with it. haha. One thing at a time....

    Good luck!
  • driaxx
    driaxx Posts: 314 Member
    First of all congratulations! I feel your pain sister I know how addictive that stuff is! I usually have 3 cans a day. Today I only let myself have one for dinner, hopefully I can keep up for the rest of the week! Yesterday I had 2.5 cans of pepsi max and 1 bottle of coke zero and I felt absolutely sick so I realised how badly I need to quit!
  • ratherbeskiing
    ratherbeskiing Posts: 847 Member
    :bigsmile: congrats
  • NiciS72
    NiciS72 Posts: 1,043 Member
    Congrats, I know it's hard. I've done it (with Diet Pepsi). My question to you would be how much sleep are you getting? I know that now that I'm off caffeine I crave it most when I don't get a full 8-9 hours of sleep. Try getting more sleep and see if that helps you.

    Best of Luck!
  • lml1042
    lml1042 Posts: 121
    :happy: Yay! Great job!

    I am a diet coke addict. I am in love with the stuff. I've also cut it down to one (or two :blushing: ) a day and I'm finding that it's losing it's appeal to me. I can normally down a can in less than 5-10 minutes but I popped one open last night, and 2 1/2 hours later I had about half gone and then threw it away.

    I don't think I'll ever give it up though. Like a previous poster said, I drink tons of water (128oz a day) so I deserve a diet coke every once in a while.
  • chicnsweet83
    chicnsweet83 Posts: 97
    Try a 5 hour energy..that'll help pick you up, it's worked for me on days I got 4 hours
  • NotGoddess
    NotGoddess Posts: 1,198 Member
    First off-that's fantastic. I think diet coke is one of the most addictive diet drinks out there so if you've cut down to 1 you are doing great. You could try buying the little 8oz bottles (I assume by 1 you mean a 20 oz) so you still get your kick but not as much.

    When I kicked Pepsi Max it was the aspartame, not the caffeine that killed me.
  • BobbyDaniel
    BobbyDaniel Posts: 1,459 Member
    Most of the time I have one soda a day , usually a Coke Zero and usually at night with my supper. The long term effects are still up in the air, obviously, but have not noticed any negative effects so far.
  • LuLuRunner1
    LuLuRunner1 Posts: 329 Member
    Good for you!!!

    I am also down to one can of Vanilla Coke Zero a day; usually around 3:30 in the afternoon. Maybe once a week or every other week, I'll go to Sonic and get a Route 44 Diet Coke. I went a few weeks where I had eliminated the coke and replaced it with Green Tea, but I read on here that someone was having issues with constipation from Green Tea (I was also having issues, but hadn't put the two together), so I quit that and returned to the Coke Zero.
  • bett_boop
    bett_boop Posts: 89 Member
    eek when I was at my lowest weight I drank loads of Diet coke, it really helped with my weight loss... is it really terrible? is it the aspartame? or the caffeine (suddenly I'm terrified bout all the potential damage I have been doing to my body!)

    kicking any habbit/addiction is hard (i quit smoking two years ago and I actually found my craving for diet coke when i didn't have any was probably worse than craving nicotine! and so much harder when trying to lose weight) so WELL DONE! how did you manage it?
  • mortuseon
    mortuseon Posts: 579 Member
    I had six cans of Pepsi Max today.
    SIX.

    I need help. :L
  • bett_boop
    bett_boop Posts: 89 Member
    this used to be me! i actually hid bottles under my bed after my parents banned me from drinking it... (years ago) god reading this is making me crave! I just think, better to have a couple of diet cokes than a couple of cheesburgers...
  • HMonsterX
    HMonsterX Posts: 3,000 Member
    better to have a couple of diet cokes than a couple of cheesburgers...

    Exactly, although the Hate Brigade will soon be here to tell you diet coke is worse than drinking liquid paraffin....
  • NickyCat101
    NickyCat101 Posts: 69
    this used to be me! i actually hid bottles under my bed after my parents banned me from drinking it... (years ago) god reading this is making me crave! I just think, better to have a couple of diet cokes than a couple of cheesburgers...

    Actually I no interest in a burger without a diet coke. I'd love to have them together though!
  • kaimi2011
    kaimi2011 Posts: 141 Member
    I gave up diet coke on 3 November. I miss it somedays but I can do w/o. I feel better!!

    Best of luck, :)
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