soda=liquid candy

dan_IRL
dan_IRL Posts: 204 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I treat soda like candy, which is really what it is. It is liquid candy.

I got rid of the mentality that I needed to have a soda with every meal. I don't eat a snicker's bar with every meal, so why should I drink a coke or other soda with every meal.

I have a candy bar once every great while. Now I only have a soda once every great while as well.

(I know there are no calories in diet soda, but there are so many other chemicals and GMO crap in them that I decided to blanket all soda, diet and full strength, as candy.)
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  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
    So there are no chemicals in regular soda?

    I'll take full flavored aspartame with zero calories because I like it. Mmmmm

    I'm sure there are more chemicals in your every day life that you are inhaling/putting on your skin then in a single can of diet soda. I'll take my chances.
  • Chief_Rocka
    Chief_Rocka Posts: 4,710 Member
    candy = solid soda
  • FitBeto
    FitBeto Posts: 2,121 Member
    Your asparagus has chemicals in it
    Your chicken has chemicals in it
    Your water has chemicals in it
    Your corn
    Your broccoli
    All your health food does.

    We're damned if we do, damned if we don't

    Kudos to you for no soda though, drinking it is like smoking plastic
  • vytamindi
    vytamindi Posts: 845 Member
    I treat soda like candy, which is really what it is. It is liquid candy.

    I got rid of the mentality that I needed to have a soda with every meal. I don't eat a snicker's bar with every meal, so why should I drink a coke or other soda with every meal.

    I have a candy bar once every great while. Now I only have a soda once every great while as well.

    (I know there are no calories in diet soda, but there are so many other chemicals and GMO crap in them that I decided to blanket all soda, diet and full strength, as candy.)

    Good for you?
  • quirkytizzy
    quirkytizzy Posts: 4,052 Member
    I've cut out soda entirely, too. I found it skyrocketed my sugar cravings. Hard as hell at first, but then easier and easier. It was worth it.

    That said, there are lots of people who can fit a can or two a day into their goals and do just fine. Me? I can't have just one. It's none or else the whole 12 pack. Easier for me to just stay out of it entirely.
  • ArroganceInStep
    ArroganceInStep Posts: 6,239 Member
    I treat the trees out back like a toilet, because...you know...trees are basically toilets
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,972 Member
    Meh. Diet soda for me is my go "sweet" treat every day. And it's been that way for about 25 years now.

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  • EstiloPanama
    EstiloPanama Posts: 245
    I treat soda like candy, which is really what it is. It is liquid candy.

    I got rid of the mentality that I needed to have a soda with every meal. I don't eat a snicker's bar with every meal, so why should I drink a coke or other soda with every meal.

    I have a candy bar once every great while. Now I only have a soda once every great while as well.

    (I know there are no calories in diet soda, but there are so many other chemicals and GMO crap in them that I decided to blanket all soda, diet and full strength, as candy.)

    Good for you?

    That's what I was thinking...I considered offering a cookie, but the butter used may have chemicals in it...so I don't know...maybe like, a super healthy oatmeal raisin? Wait, the raisins...the raisins....must..use...organic....grapes.........
  • moonsforeyes
    moonsforeyes Posts: 228
    I agree with you and think that is a good way of thinking about it (the candy bar with dinner thought) some days, I just really want one so will give in and have a 20 oz bottle of Pepsi. Also, Diet soda does contain calories. Just not in individual servings. In this country, for whatever reason, if a serving of something is less than 5 calories, they don't have to say that it does contain calories. So to the people who are drinking a lot of diet soda, are drinking calories (maybe not heaps and certainly not as much as regular soda but it is calories!) same goes for things like those butter sprays that are "0," calories per 5 sprays. Look at the ingredients in that! Buttermilk, etc. I am rambling now.. hahaha

    edit: meant to say I"ll have a 20 oz bottle of DIET pepsi.
  • dan_IRL
    dan_IRL Posts: 204 Member
    Good for you?

    That's what I was thinking...I considered offering a cookie, but the butter used may have chemicals in it...so I don't know...maybe like, a super healthy oatmeal raisin? Wait, the raisins...the raisins....must..use...organic....grapes.........

    why even comment?
  • MarineCodie
    MarineCodie Posts: 256 Member
    Good for you?

    That's what I was thinking...I considered offering a cookie, but the butter used may have chemicals in it...so I don't know...maybe like, a super healthy oatmeal raisin? Wait, the raisins...the raisins....must..use...organic....grapes.........

    why even comment?

    Agreed. So ridiculous & un-needed.

    I started getting the little cans of diet coke... so I can feel better about my addiction. haha! :)
  • WickedGarden
    WickedGarden Posts: 944 Member
    soooo....beer is like a liquid slice of bread? :laugh:
  • fightininggirl
    fightininggirl Posts: 792 Member
    wouldn't advise fake sweetners it causes migraines and cancer.
  • iuew
    iuew Posts: 624 Member
    soda with no calories is like candy with no calories : no calories.

    i consider full cal soda to be "liquid candy." cal free soda : not so much.
  • LokiOfAsgard
    LokiOfAsgard Posts: 378 Member
    Wow. I thought MFP was suppose to be supportive.

    Anyway, Awesome job (y) Kudos to you :3 I cut it out for a few months... then I got dragged back in lol.
  • extraordinary_machine
    extraordinary_machine Posts: 3,028 Member
    wouldn't advise fake sweetners it causes migraines and cancer.

    Do you have peer-reviewed studies to show that?
  • amdahwd
    amdahwd Posts: 237 Member
    I lost 40 pounds while drinking lots and lots of diet coke. Last week I decided to cut out the diet coke and lost 4-1/2 pounds in 7 days. Not sure what it is since there are no calories, but it definitely helps you hold onto pounds. I won't be drinking it anymore.
  • extraordinary_machine
    extraordinary_machine Posts: 3,028 Member
    Correlation=/=Causation
  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
    I lost 40 pounds while drinking lots and lots of diet coke. Last week I decided to cut out the diet coke and lost 4-1/2 pounds in 7 days. Not sure what it is since there are no calories, but it definitely helps you hold onto pounds. I won't be drinking it anymore.

    Diet soda has sodium.
  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
    soooo....beer is like a liquid slice of bread? :laugh:

    SO F'CKIN GOOD!

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  • slkehl
    slkehl Posts: 3,801 Member
    I lost 40 pounds while drinking lots and lots of diet coke. Last week I decided to cut out the diet coke and lost 4-1/2 pounds in 7 days. Not sure what it is since there are no calories, but it definitely helps you hold onto pounds. I won't be drinking it anymore.

    Diet soda has sodium.

    Not a significant amount.
  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
    I lost 40 pounds while drinking lots and lots of diet coke. Last week I decided to cut out the diet coke and lost 4-1/2 pounds in 7 days. Not sure what it is since there are no calories, but it definitely helps you hold onto pounds. I won't be drinking it anymore.

    Diet soda has sodium.

    Not a significant amount.

    I'm not sure what "lots and lots" amounts to, but if you're drinking a few sodas a day then cut them out, keeping your diet the same, I would attribute SOME of the pounds lost to be water weight. Plus what ever fat was lost in the week of dieting as well. So, I don't think it's a stretch that 2 pounds could have been water and 2 pounds from fat.
  • dandandee
    dandandee Posts: 301 Member
    good for you.
    I rarely have pop either. really only with drinks (of the alcoholic variety :P)

    I rather have those calories in some chocolate instead :)
  • BrittanyNBuchanan
    BrittanyNBuchanan Posts: 68 Member
    Does anyone have any advice on breaking the soda habit? I am super addicted to caffeine in any form, especially soda and energy drinks. I'm cutting back on my own, but I want to break the habit completely... Help!!
  • melt2svelte
    melt2svelte Posts: 36
    I agree! It IS like liquid candy. I try to avoid it at all costs. A few years ago, I started drinking 2-3 sodas a day. I gained nearly 20 lbs in a two month span. I ended up cutting it out completely after seeing photos of myself, and 20 lbs and then some fell off in about 5 months without any other changes to my diet. It seriously makes me inflate!

    I do have the occasional Diet Pepsi, but the more I have the more I want, so I try to avoid it... :/
  • jshot278
    jshot278 Posts: 42 Member
    Yes, soda is high in sodium (someone posted that). I also read somewhere that the artificial sweetners can actually increase your
    appetite. If you need to drink it, it would be best to limit the amount.
    Congrats to you for being able to overcome that habit. I hear it's so hard for some.
  • melt2svelte
    melt2svelte Posts: 36
    Does anyone have any advice on breaking the soda habit? I am super addicted to caffeine in any form, especially soda and energy drinks. I'm cutting back on my own, but I want to break the habit completely... Help!!

    Coffee and tea for the caffeine. Carbonated flavored water for the fizzy fix.
  • matchbox_girl
    matchbox_girl Posts: 535 Member
    So there are no chemicals in regular soda?

    I'll take full flavored aspartame with zero calories because I like it. Mmmmm

    I'm sure there are more chemicals in your every day life that you are inhaling/putting on your skin then in a single can of diet soda. I'll take my chances.

    This ^^ I refuse to cut out my pleasures, especially since diet coke is zero cal.
  • dough21
    dough21 Posts: 216 Member
    I cut out soda last February and have never looked back. At this point I don't miss the soda at all. Sometimes I do however miss Root Beer Floats. MMM.... Root Beer Floats.
  • LiftAllThePizzas
    LiftAllThePizzas Posts: 17,857 Member
    I treat soda like candy, which is really what it is. It is liquid candy.

    I got rid of the mentality that I needed to have a soda with every meal. I don't eat a snicker's bar with every meal, so why should I drink a coke or other soda with every meal.

    I have a candy bar once every great while. Now I only have a soda once every great while as well.

    (I know there are no calories in diet soda, but there are so many other chemicals and GMO crap in them that I decided to blanket all soda, diet and full strength, as candy.)
    What ingredient(s) of which diet soda(s) is/are from GMO sources?

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