"Need" for Diet Coke gone?

noelkm67

Hello Everyone,

I'm puzzled by a recent dietary development. For several years I drank 4-6 Diet Cokes (DC) each day. About three or four years ago, I managed to get it down to one a day at lunch. Without that mid-day caffeine kick, I was a walking zombie the rest of the day, yawning my head off and having zero energy.

Over this long weekend, I found that I didn't need the DC at all. I didn't get drowsy and this is continuing on today. I have had no DC since Friday of last week. How could my body make such an abrupt change?

Thanks!

jillcwhite

For years I always had a diet coke with lunch it gave me a kick for the rest of the afternoon. After hearing all the bad things about it - I decided to detox from it and see if I could do it. After several months I tried a diet coke again and I had a major crash (so Tired) about 2 hours later. I feel worse drinking it now. And to think when it was in my system I felt different and now its not worth it to drink it.

Not sure how our bodies do it..............

Are you going to continue not drinking it?

If there are days I need the energy - I drink a zipfizz instead

TamaraHaase

I almost wonder if it is in our heads, the withdrawals. I too drank coke of some sort for years, was extremely addicted and would drink five cans and up a day. I tried several times quitting with no luck at all. I would always get headaches from the lack of caffeine, no energy, etc. When I would quit, I'd have moderate success, my longest break was for three months a few years back. When I started drinking it again, I tried coke zero and, since it had been three months since I'd had a coke, I thought it tasted just like regular. When I started dieting, I had no intentions of giving up coke. I did, however, cut back because I was trying to get in all my water. It wasn't an intentional cutback in that I wanted to drink less, it just happened that I would drink less because I was trying so hard to get all my water in. And then one day I noticed I hadn't had a coke at all the day before. And then I noticed I went a few days, then a couple weeks without one. And so on. I will have one on occasion, but I don't crave it like I used to. I have an entire 24 pack in my closet that I bought over a month ago that has three missing.

noelkm67

That's the thing: I wasn't trying to detox. My body just stopped the afternoon crash without my trying. I had a mid-day nap on Saturday, so I slept right through my usual DC time and noticed I was fine without it. So I went without it (no nap!) for the following two days with no sleepiness or headaches (which I had gotten in the past when I tried to stop).

No, I don't plan to go back to drinking it. I'm just curious about how I "detoxed" without even trying and with no side effects such as headaches like I had in the past.

Odd.

noelkm67

You may be right, Tamara. Thanks to both of you for the post.