List of zero-(or super low) calorie drinks? So far I have ++

carlxo21
carlxo21 Posts: 143 Member
Safeway Refreshe sparkling waters
Water obviously
Zero Cal monsters
Zero cal rockstars
Low Carb Monsters
Zero Cal Redbull
HiBall Energy drinks
Crystal Light packets
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  • melindasuefritz
    melindasuefritz Posts: 3,509 Member
    all them u listed have fake sugar except water
  • melindasuefritz
    melindasuefritz Posts: 3,509 Member
    1. iced tea- plain
    2. coffee- black
    3, water with lemon wedge
    4. flavored sparkling water
    5. club soda
  • thinklivebefree
    thinklivebefree Posts: 328 Member
    Water, Diet Water, H2O, Agua, WHATAH, Werter, anyone you wanna spell it say it write it.....WATER IS THE BEST! Stay away from the ASPARTAME, AND THAT LONG *kitten* WORD WITH THE P...Thats usually in bold letter...Phenilakline or something lol
  • aigoooooo
    aigoooooo Posts: 31
    You could try zevia, it uses Stevia to sweeten, many don't have caffeine, and they're tasty. They're at Fred Meyer, trader joes new seasons, etc. and natural sparkling waters that specifically say they don't use fake sugars, like ones that use sugar alcohol instead (idk, my boyfriend is type 1 diabetic and won't drink fake sweeteners, but accepts those ones)
    And, like everyone else says, water :)
  • Hallzeehall
    Hallzeehall Posts: 40 Member
    If you like fruit flavored drinks, Celestial Seasonings has blueberry tea bags that are really really good...my four year old thinks it is juice...if you want it sweet, throw in a teeny bit of good old sugar...totally recommend it...I only drink it cold with ice.
  • carlxo21
    carlxo21 Posts: 143 Member
    I am not worried about fake sugars, aspartame, or phenylalanine

    I am just looking for zero or low calorie beverages
  • voodooziggy
    voodooziggy Posts: 13 Member
    There are lot of studies that show that artificial sweeteners do not help you lose weight, and may even make it harder. If you must have something artificially sweet, I would do it in small amounts, and diet sodas are usually loaded with aspartame.
  • GormanGhaste
    GormanGhaste Posts: 430 Member
    95% of the time I drink plain water, but maybe once a week or so I want a caffeinated drink. So I've started keeping sugar-free instant drink mix on hand, the single-serve packets that are meant for a 16-20oz bottle of water. It's ok for an occasional indulgence, better than diet soda.
  • brainzap
    brainzap Posts: 145 Member
    Hint water! It doesn't have junk in it.
  • quiltlovinlisa
    quiltlovinlisa Posts: 1,710 Member
    I drink water with a lemon slice and lots of ice, herbal tea, hot or cold sweetened with liquid stevia and of course water. I am working on giving up diet coke and am down to having just a few a month.

    The herbal tea gives me a TON of flavor options.

    I am trying to eliminate artificial sweeteners but that's a personal choice.
  • _noob_
    _noob_ Posts: 3,306 Member
    Hint water! It doesn't have junk in it.

    Unless you count arsenic, some heavy metals, and some other nasty chemicals...
  • jtangcs
    jtangcs Posts: 37 Member
    Make your own flavored water with fruit. All natural and none of the chemical sweetners.
  • Matt24442
    Matt24442 Posts: 324
    Hint water! It doesn't have junk in it.

    Not if you drink pool water....has some pretty nasty stuff in it
  • changing4life
    changing4life Posts: 193 Member
    Water, water, and more water...
  • heatherk0908
    heatherk0908 Posts: 50 Member
    My favorite is Vitamin water zero (Go-Go flavor). This is the one and only flavor of this that I like. I recommend it to everyone who doesn't like the other flavors because I don't either. It's sweetened with stevia (or truvia) so it's a natural sweetener.
  • YolieCreator
    YolieCreator Posts: 173 Member
    You can slice up all kinds of fruits and some veggies for water. Ginger cinnamon and mint too. Let it set over night in the fridge. Amazing!!!
  • iWillGetCrowSomeday
    iWillGetCrowSomeday Posts: 311 Member
    Water, Diet Water, H2O, Agua, WHATAH, Werter, anyone you wanna spell it say it write it.....WATER IS THE BEST! Stay away from the ASPARTAME, AND THAT LONG *kitten* WORD WITH THE P...Thats usually in bold letter...Phenilakline or something lol

    Yup!

    Working on quitting Splenda. I find that if I have something sweet- even if it's not *real* sugar, I crave more sweets. It was explained to me in my anatomy/physiology class that it tricks your body into thinking you've ingested sugar when you haven't, so your body releases as much insulin as it normally would, causing you to crave more sugar. Could be wrong. And if I'm going to sweeten something, I'll use real sugar. Hard habit to break!
  • BeachIron
    BeachIron Posts: 6,490 Member
    Hint water! It doesn't have junk in it.

    Meh, water is for making ice to go in my bourbon
  • dobyblue
    dobyblue Posts: 25 Member
    Hint water! It doesn't have junk in it.

    Unless you count arsenic, some heavy metals, and some other nasty chemicals...

    Or if you don't drink those because you own a Berkey Water Filter!
  • suzanne_j7
    suzanne_j7 Posts: 1
    Water, Diet Water, H2O, Agua, WHATAH, Werter, anyone you wanna spell it say it write it.....WATER IS THE BEST! Stay away from the ASPARTAME, AND THAT LONG *kitten* WORD WITH THE P...Thats usually in bold letter...Phenilakline or something lol


    LMAO @ "AND THAT LONG *kitten* WORD WITH THE P...Thats usually in bold letter...Phenilakline or something lol"

    You Are Effing Hysterical! :laugh: :laugh:
  • dobyblue
    dobyblue Posts: 25 Member
    Water, Diet Water, H2O, Agua, WHATAH, Werter, anyone you wanna spell it say it write it.....WATER IS THE BEST! Stay away from the ASPARTAME, AND THAT LONG *kitten* WORD WITH THE P...Thats usually in bold letter...Phenilakline or something lol

    Yup!

    Working on quitting Splenda. I find that if I have something sweet- even if it's not *real* sugar, I crave more sweets. It was explained to me in my anatomy/physiology class that it tricks your body into thinking you've ingested sugar when you having, so your body releases as much insulin as it normally would, causing you to crave more sugar. Could be wrong. And if I'm going to sweeten something, I'll use real sugar. Hard habit to break!

    Good choice. Splenda/sucralose destroys healthy gut bacteria in mammalian lab tests by up to 50%. When you consider you have trillions upon trillions of gut bacteria and the average crappy yogurt filled iwth genetically modified ingredients (like those awful 0% SOURCE ones from Yoplait or whomever it is) only has around a million CFU's, you have to be eating a million of them every day to make up for what you're losing from sucralose. It's also being found pervasive in the drinking water now as most water treatment plants don't get rid of it.

    Nasty chemical, avoid it!
  • dobyblue
    dobyblue Posts: 25 Member
    My favorite is Vitamin water zero (Go-Go flavor). This is the one and only flavor of this that I like. I recommend it to everyone who doesn't like the other flavors because I don't either. It's sweetened with stevia (or truvia) so it's a natural sweetener.

    If it's "Truvia" then it's likely got chemicals in it, they don't divulge what the "natural flavors" are on their ingredients list and it could be any number of 3,000 different chemicals that are allowed by the FDA under that heading, just like "fragrance" in beauty products.
  • twstws
    twstws Posts: 1 Member
    If you like flavored waters that don't add artificial sweetners, try the Glaceau vitamin zero waters or Sobe lifewater. Just make sure you get the ones with zero calories. I don't like diet soda. I have completely quit drinking soda and this give your taste buds a treat when they get tired of plain water.
  • iWillGetCrowSomeday
    iWillGetCrowSomeday Posts: 311 Member
    Water, Diet Water, H2O, Agua, WHATAH, Werter, anyone you wanna spell it say it write it.....WATER IS THE BEST! Stay away from the ASPARTAME, AND THAT LONG *kitten* WORD WITH THE P...Thats usually in bold letter...Phenilakline or something lol

    Yup!

    Working on quitting Splenda. I find that if I have something sweet- even if it's not *real* sugar, I crave more sweets. It was explained to me in my anatomy/physiology class that it tricks your body into thinking you've ingested sugar when you having, so your body releases as much insulin as it normally would, causing you to crave more sugar. Could be wrong. And if I'm going to sweeten something, I'll use real sugar. Hard habit to break!

    Good choice. Splenda/sucralose destroys healthy gut bacteria in mammalian lab tests by up to 50%. When you consider you have trillions upon trillions of gut bacteria and the average crappy yogurt filled iwth genetically modified ingredients (like those awful 0% SOURCE ones from Yoplait or whomever it is) only has around a million CFU's, you have to be eating a million of them every day to make up for what you're losing from sucralose. It's also being found pervasive in the drinking water now as most water treatment plants don't get rid of it.

    Nasty chemical, avoid it!

    Oh my. That's terrifying, especially about the drinking water. I do love my greek yogurt, but I buy plain unsweetened and stay away from the Yoplait and Dannon which use corn starch to thicken it, not actually making Greek yogurt... Anyhoo. Wow. Well, the gut bacteria could explain a few things for me!

    For the most part anyway I only drink water. The only time I "need" a sweetener is with coffee. But I'm gradually moving away from that.
  • _noob_
    _noob_ Posts: 3,306 Member
    Hint water! It doesn't have junk in it.

    Unless you count arsenic, some heavy metals, and some other nasty chemicals...

    Or if you don't drink those because you own a Berkey Water Filter!

    You think a gravity filter removes ALL of ANY of those? An RO doesn't even...
  • dobyblue
    dobyblue Posts: 25 Member
    Hint water! It doesn't have junk in it.

    Unless you count arsenic, some heavy metals, and some other nasty chemicals...

    Or if you don't drink those because you own a Berkey Water Filter!

    You think a gravity filter removes ALL of ANY of those? An RO doesn't even...

    No of course not all, but in many cases higher than 99% and the company will send you all the lab reports done by Environmental Toxicology Laboratory in South Gate, California, if you'd like to peruse them; you can contact them at Customerservice@newmillconcepts.com

    Of the 55 organics tested, only 20 don't have a reduction of over 99.8%:

    1) Trichlorotrifluoroethane - over 96%
    2) Hexachlorocyclopentadiene - over 90%
    3) Lindane - over 98%
    4) Methoxychlor - over 90%
    5) Molinate - over 96%
    6) Simazine - over 98%
    7) Thiobencarb - over 98%
    8) 2,4-D (which we can expect to see a growing concern over now that Monsanto's glyphosate isn't working and Dow are trying to get their 2,4-D-resistant crops approved) - over 90.1%
    9) Dinoseb - over 86.01%
    10) Pentachlorophenol - over 96.99%
    11) Silvex - over 90.2%
    12) Oxamyl - over 95%
    13) Carbofuran - over 95%
    14) Glyphosate - over 75%
    15) Bromoacetic Acid - over 98%
    16) Chloroacetic Acid - over 96%
    17) Dibromoacetic Acid - over 98%
    18) Dichloroacetic Acid - 98%
    19) Total Haloacetic Acids - over 98%
    20) Trochloroacetic Acid - over 98%

    Of the inorganics arsenic is reduced by over 99%, lead by over 97.5%, mercury by over 98%, chlorine by over 87.5%.
  • _noob_
    _noob_ Posts: 3,306 Member
    ...I wrote my dissertation faster than that...
  • wamydia
    wamydia Posts: 259 Member
    Just deleting what I already said because I realized it was on your list already.
  • ceejatec
    ceejatec Posts: 6
    Splenda/sucralose destroys healthy gut bacteria in mammalian lab tests by up to 50%.
    ... in a Duke University study funded by the Sugar Foundation which was later described as "not scientifically rigorous" by a panel including scientists from, among others, Duke University. No other tests have demonstrated similar results, at least not yet.

    Not saying Sucralose is as safe as water or anything, but you can't make claims based on single studies. Science doesn't work like that. Obviously you're more likely to be safe without sucralose in your diet than with it, but that's true of virtually every ingestible substance on the planet. And even what stuff we "know is safe" changes from month to month.
  • __Di__
    __Di__ Posts: 1,659 Member
    Hint water! It doesn't have junk in it.

    Not if you drink pool water....has some pretty nasty stuff in it

    :sick:
    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: