Diet Coke ADDICT.

Okay, so what's wrong with a zero calorie soda? A regular soda has 150 calories per can.

I too, am a diet soda addict (pepsi though, not coke). I have been drinking it for years! At some point last year I was drinking 3-4 every day- even one for breakfast.

Several weeks ago I began cutting it back to 1 a day (I found that stopping cold turkey was not for me...). This week I was to the point that I was able to completely cut soda out 4 days of the week, and I am hoping that I am able to go this whole week with no soda.

In place of soda, I am drinking water for breakfast, and either water or water/propel drink powder packets for other meals. They are only 10 calories and taste pretty good. It is hard to replace Diet pepsi since it is the only thing I have drank for the last several years, but it is an ongoing process!

I think both the caffeine and the carbonation bother me and make me sort of puffy and bloated, so I am finding that cutting them both out makes my belly seem much flatter!!

good luck!

Hi. My name is Amy, and I am a diet coke addict. Not poking fun, really, it's THAT bad. I too lose a lot of water weight an just feel less bloated when I can get off it for a few days. I find that alternating cans with a 20z bottle of water keeps me from drinking as much as I otherwise would and negatively impacts the taste of diet coke. I eat clean, organic foods with this one exception, because it's so addictive. I feel awful that I am just putting chemicals into my body. I don't think there really is a great substitute. I think we just have to wean off it an replace it with what our body needs, more water. Good luck!

Can we talk?
I LOVE my diet coke ( see my signature below)
I dont call it an addiction just because I think people use that word for anything they like a little toooo much. Now a days everyone is "an addict" to something. No, I dont call it an addiiction but I would not want to be without it.

Now saying all that, I will tell you that I have been drinking DC since my daughter was born 24 yrs ago. Not heavily at first and I have gone through ups and downs. My usage has varied greatly through out thet time. At times I drink more than others and I have cut back, cut it to de-caf and back to reg DC.
For 10 yrs I owned my own business ( a resturant !! ) I switched to de-caf DC at work . I had the vendor switch out our product and that was what we sold. No one every noticed. In that high stress enviroment I would drink approx. 2 ( 20 oz. caffeine free fountain pop) -3 a day at work then another 2-3 regular cans at home.
I would say I would average about 6-8 cans a day.
Since joing MFP I have cut down to 2 very rarely I'll have 3 cans and on saturday OR sunday I let myself have 3-4 ONE DAY A WEEK.
This is a miracle. Thank you Father.
I dont want to hear how bad it is for me, my mother is a nurse and I have heard it all. For years.

It's like this people, when someone is overweight or chubby or downright fat, you dont need someone telling you so. You already know. Does it make you rush right to the nearest Weight watcher meeting and loose 30 lbs. No it doesnt, you do it when your ready. I know it's not good for me, I know I should drink more water and since MFP I drink 10-12 glasses of H2O per day. I do notice that when I am in a very high stress moment ( very bad news on the phone the other day) I immeadiatly grab a DC, so I have not conquered that yet. Dont really want to at this point. I figure it's less expensive than drinkin' scotch and last time I checked it wasn't illegal......yet.
So YES I love my DC but have just told myself I will drink 3 waters before I get my DC reward. Most days I dont have my first one now until about noon or mid afternoon. I now look at it as a reward or treat than a fix , mind you I would never let myself run out in the house
And I LOVE that my belly went down 1.5" in the first 2 weeks. Thats the trade off and it works for me.


Wow all that talkin' made me thirsty....gotta go grab myself a cold one :drinker:
I wish you well

P.S. as far as the sodium goes there is 40mg of sodium in a can of DC
compare that to 450mg in 1/2 cup of low-fat cottage cheese!!

I'm just sayin'

Ok, going to put on my flame retardant suit and have the fire marshall on speed dial :ohwell:

I am completely hooked on Cherry Coke Zero. I try to limit myself to about 6 cans a day, but often it's more like 8. I lost 30 pounds a few years ago from simply switching off of "Fat" Coke to diet and that's as far as I'm willing to go. I quit smoking a year ago; I don't do drugs; I don't drink often; I hate coffee, and tea. This is my vice and I'm fine with it.

I also do not need to drink Diet Coke as a brand but I do like diet cola of any sort. Diet Rite cola tastes great and contains neither caffeine nor sodium. Jewel Food Stores in Chicago sells SuperChill which is their house brand, which also is a Safeway brand I think. I like that as well and that contains no sodium either but does have caffeine. Thus I enjoy the cheaper (usually half the price) diet colas as much as I do Diet Coke.

When I was trying to ditch soda altogether, however, I found that a few drops of lemon juice or lemon wedge in ice water made plain ol' water more of a treat.

I'm a huge diet coke addict too, it's the only soda I drink. I used to drink 2 liters a day, now I only let myself have a cup or two in the afternoon, after I've made myself drink alot of water, and then I drink more water after I'm done with it to compensate.

The sodium/carbonation/aspartame. Not sure how, but apparently they make you retain lots of water. Plus aspartame has been linked to cancer so that's scary!

This drives me nuts. The sodium levels in a diet coke are NOT high AT ALL people. There's only 40mg in a whole can. It's not a high sodium beverage AT ALL.

As for being an addict......I love the stuff too....but I try to limit it to 1 a day and drink iced green tea the rest of the day since I'm not a huge water fan.

I used to be a 4-5 pop a day addict. Coke, pepsi, diet coke.

A challenge to all of you that like it.

How much do you enjoy that same pop when.

It's cold and flat.
or
When it's warm and fizzy.

I think I had too many pops out of the bottle that lost their fizz and the odd warm one and the taste just grossed me out.
Water since then with the odd ginger ale.

Yep! Me too! I love Diet Coke. I know it's not good for me, but I still love it. I don't drink coffee or tea; DC is my only caffeine intake, so that doesn't concern me too much. I do think the aspartame is bad though!

I have been losing weight for 12 months now and am 6lbs from my target. I did all that allowing myself one or two cans (got to be ice cold from a can!) of Diet Coke a day. I have always been a slow loser - 1 or half a lb per week. Steady but slow.

Recently I switched to caffeine free DC in a bid to wean myself off the brown stuff. I'd like to be totally caffeine free! I found the switch fine and I didn't miss the caffeine buzz. Last week I cut it right down and just had one can of caffeine free DC. I lost 2½lbs that week! I have been less bloated with a much flatter tummy (and as someone who carries a lot of my weight on my tummy, that was amazingly noticable change!) and I feel fab for conquering my DC demons!

So, now I'm trying to be DC free as much as possible. I think it's better not to have it every single day (although it's a hard habit to break!) but I am not going to totally rule it out of my diet. I will allow myself one as a treat every now and again. Just have to make sure I don't slip back into the daily DC habit.