soda=liquid candy

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  • tiffanysmummy
    tiffanysmummy Posts: 4
    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.

    Diet soda increases your appetite as when you drink it you create an insulin response in your body. Your body then feels hungry as you promised it fuel and it produced insulin ready to convert that fuel to glucose (simple explanation). Until you get your insulin levels back where they should be, you will remain hungry.

    I just drink water and coffee these days. On a special occasion I may have a soda but usually am just as happy with water.
  • Msdirection
    Msdirection Posts: 54 Member
    I'm really lucky - as a kid I never got the taste for soft drinks, so now as an adult I really don't miss them. I get weird looks when I go out for lunch and only drink water, but at least it's one less way for sugar to get into my system! I'll save my calories for chocolate instead ^_^
  • LiftAllThePizzas
    LiftAllThePizzas Posts: 17,857 Member
    Diet soda increases your appetite as when you drink it you create an insulin response in your body. Your body then feels hungry as you promised it fuel and it produced insulin ready to convert that fuel to glucose (simple explanation). Until you get your insulin levels back where they should be, you will remain hungry.
    Nuh uh.
  • BrittanyNBuchanan
    BrittanyNBuchanan Posts: 68 Member
    I'm trying tea and caffeine pills, but the sugar gets to me. I like my tea sweet and lemony.
  • Bbwnomore2
    Bbwnomore2 Posts: 225 Member
    This year along with back on a diet i went off all pop, i do however use 12 oz a week to make the diet cake(which i have 1slice, the rest of the cake i share with my coworkers). EVERYONE has there own preferences in what they should do, what they heard, what they have read. I think it's great you found something that works for you. Keep up the good work:happy:
  • bathsheba_c
    bathsheba_c Posts: 1,873 Member
    That's not a fair comparison. One 12 oz. coke has TWICE as much sugar as one cadbury creme egg! :laugh:

    Oh, and the anti-GMO bull**** is the climate change denial of the left.
  • slap1225
    slap1225 Posts: 487 Member
    I am just waiting for them to make calorie free liquid chips and salsa or fries im not too picky.... at that point life would be perfect and I would have no more fattening addictions.
  • tweetz78
    tweetz78 Posts: 7
    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.
    i was told its the sodium and makes u retain water. i still drink it more for caffiene purposes at work since i work 3rd shift and drinkable coffee isnt available in the warehouse. but im happy you all found what is working for you
  • tweetz78
    tweetz78 Posts: 7
    Diet soda increases your appetite as when you drink it you create an insulin response in your body. Your body then feels hungry as you promised it fuel and it produced insulin ready to convert that fuel to glucose (simple explanation). Until you get your insulin levels back where they should be, you will remain hungry.
    Nuh uh.
    for me i get more hungry when not drinking it but then again everybodys body reacts different t different things
  • XDiet_SlayerX
    XDiet_SlayerX Posts: 88
    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.)
    I highly agree!
  • taekwonkenpo
    taekwonkenpo Posts: 1,004
    Soda and coffee belong in the same category as ice cream, cake and cookies. Eat/drink it if you want and it fits into your daily micros but there are much better choices out there for sure.
  • langsyne
    langsyne Posts: 106 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!!

    Coffee and tea for the caffeine. Carbonated flavored water for the fizzy fix.

    This!!
    I recently heard there was a study (can't remember where, I'd have to research it) that the sweetness in diet soda does trick the body into causing insulin spikes. Also, aspartame is getting a really bad rap these days.
  • jonesin_am
    jonesin_am Posts: 404 Member
    I don't understand why people feel compelled to comment when they don't have anything supportive to say...

    I think that the way you are looking at soda (even diet soda) is a great way to think about it and if it works for you even better. Some people can't let go of the unhealthy habit so diet soda every day it is. But you are right, all the chemicals and corn syrup and whatever else they put in that stuff (I have no idea because I never drink it - have never been a soda fan) isn't good for you. You might be consuming chemicals in other food you eat but I would think that most of those foods also have nutritional content, unlike soda.

    So way to go! One bad habit nipped in the butt...moving on!
  • fleerik
    fleerik Posts: 29 Member
    I'll have a soda every once and a while, but my wife and I do not bring it into the house. We may drink a soda with dinner twice a month if that. I don't even drink diet soda because of the aspartame. Years ago I was getting chronic headaches. I would always get them after a meal. At the time, I was drinking diet Pepsi and Fresca. I stopped drinking the soda and the headaches went away. I'm sure not everyones body chemistry works the same, but it convinced me enough to stay away from the stuff. Been chronic headache free for nearly a decade.
  • North44
    North44 Posts: 359 Member
    I agree. I treat it as a "treat." I like it better than candy though, truth be known. lol. I drink diet mostly.
  • LiftAllThePizzas
    LiftAllThePizzas Posts: 17,857 Member
    I don't understand why people feel compelled to comment when they don't have anything supportive to say...

    I think that the way you are looking at soda (even diet soda) is a great way to think about it and if it works for you even better. Some people can't let go of the unhealthy habit so diet soda every day it is. But you are right, all the chemicals and corn syrup and whatever else they put in that stuff (I have no idea because I never drink it - have never been a soda fan) isn't good for you. You might be consuming chemicals in other food you eat but I would think that most of those foods also have nutritional content, unlike soda.

    So way to go! One bad habit nipped in the butt...moving on!
    How is perpetuating scary urban legends supportive? You don't even know what is in it, yet you know it isn't good for you?

    This thread has a bunch of similar scare mongering. Diet soda is the devil, etc. That's the real negativity around here. There's no science to back any of it up. Whether or not you enjoy diet soda is personal. Whether or not it's unhealthy is not a matter of what you heard or "preference" any more than gravity is.

    That type of thinking reinforces the "food is your enemy" mentality that many people have.
    Also, aspartame is getting a really bad rap these days.
    It has been getting a bad rap since the 1980s when it first went on the market, yet (like MSG) scientific studies are unable to find anything bad about it.
  • dan_IRL
    dan_IRL Posts: 204 Member
    How is perpetuating scary urban legends supportive? You don't even know what is in it, yet you know it isn't good for you?

    This thread has a bunch of similar scare mongering. Diet soda is the devil, etc. That's the real negativity around here. There's no science to back any of it up. Whether or not you enjoy diet soda is personal. Whether or not it's unhealthy is not a matter of what you heard or "preference" any more than gravity is.

    That type of thinking reinforces the "food is your enemy" mentality that many people have.

    I see far more science that suggests that aspartame and diet soda is bad for you then good for you. Personally, i would rather go with the common thread. I KNOW for a fact that water is better for me than diet soda. So I choose it. I choose to use soda (in general) as an occasional treat.
  • LiftAllThePizzas
    LiftAllThePizzas Posts: 17,857 Member
    I see far more science that suggests that aspartame and diet soda is bad for you then good for you. Personally, i would rather go with the common thread. I KNOW for a fact that water is better for me than diet soda. So I choose it. I choose to use soda (in general) as an occasional treat.
    That's great for you. If you want to make a personal choice of what you will or won't eat then that's your business. But when you state on a public forum that it's bad for you, you need to supply something to back it up. Please do.

    Plenty of people want to get healthy but either give up early on, or never bother, because they have this mindset that the only way to be healthy is to give up all the stuff that's bad for them, which tends to coincide with many of the things they like. Telling people diet soda is bad for them, when it isn't true, is just sabotaging other peoples' chances to get healthy.
  • Colorfan
    Colorfan Posts: 230 Member
    Ive never really had a problem with soda.

    I cut it out a several years ago, mostly to cut caffeine out of my diet. Back then I was drinking 2 liters of Mountain Dew every day at work.

    These days I might have a diet soda now and then, but it doesnt trigger any cravings or anything like that.

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