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    Day 5 Without Diet Soda

    Posts: 3 Member
    edited January 30 in Food and Nutrition
    Feeling great! Coffee to help kick the day off then nothing but water the rest of the day.

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    • Posts: 626 Member
      congrats - - i need to do this too.....but i hate coffee and i love caffeine...... :(
    • Posts: 606 Member
      I have thought about it. I am not there yet.
    • Posts: 31
      Great job!!!! Keep it up, you may find after not having it for a while you may not even like the taste of it anymore. Of course, I wouldn't try it for a couple of months to make sure your habit it kicked :D
    • Posts: 48 Member
      You can do it. I gave up diet soda's...Well I may have one like once or twice a month. But as long as I get my morning dose of coffee, I can survive the rest of the day! LOL sad, but hey I drink lots of water anyway! LOL


      Great job!
    • Posts: 534 Member
      Nice work!! I have gone from 1-2/day to1/week.

      P.S. Don't mind the negative Nellies who are sure to follow and tell you that it is not bad for ya and that they can lose hundreds if not thousands of pounds while drinking it everyday!
    • Posts: 2,819 Member
      I just finished reading this article from today (it's the best breakdown on diet soda that I've seen in a long time!)

      http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/24/diet-soda-health-risks_n_3606906.html

      Go you!
    • Posts: 2,819 Member
      I heard a great interview with Alton Brown where he explained how he lost the weight (50lbs of fat, and gained muscle). One of the biggest changes he made was to give up his two trigger foods. He figured out one was diet coke and one was milk. He has nothing against cooking and baking with milk or milk in general but he figured out if he drank a glass late at night it was making him binge on sweets and baked goods.

      The diet Coke was doing the very same thing for him. It was making him always crave super sweet things and he was conditioned to always wanting things to be super sweet.

      So giving up the two triggers, plus working out = *boom* 50lbs of fat gone.
    • Posts: 68 Member
      I wasn't drinking any water, and was drinking about a 12 pack of cherry coke zero per day. I had ABSOLUTELY no energy, and couldn't even make it through a day w/out sleeping several times.

      I reward myself w/ a cherry coke on Friday's if I've been good all week. :) And, I drink a TON of water. My caffeine comes from one cup of hot tea in the morning.
    • Posts: 66 Member
      I'm trying to reduce and then eliminate artificial sweetener and limit my sugar intake. Good Luck!!! We ca do it!
    • Posts: 2,403 Member
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    • Posts: 184 Member
      Probably the healthiest thing you can possibly do for yourself! Congrats!
    • Posts: 1,632 Member
      I'm working on week #4 without soda, I have replaced it with 5 calorie lemonade (no sugar) but I've probably had 3 soda's in the 4 weeks, one of those times, soda was my only option.

      Honestly I'm finding that having a can was my vice, so that's why lemonade has worked out. I have 1-3 of them a day. Sure beats 600 wasted calories!

      Great job! It's a hard thing to do. Pat your self on the back big time.
    • Posts: 189 Member
      Yeah, it's tough - I've been working on cutting back on both soda and coffee --- going pretty well
    • Posts: 2,819 Member
      I'm trying to reduce and then eliminate artificial sweetener and limit my sugar intake. Good Luck!!! We ca do it!

      Sounds good! Oddly enough I read a lot about sugar today and artificial sweeteners. I have to avoid artificial sweeteners since they are a headache inducer for me (they show up in everything so I have to read labels really carefully).

      One of the articles I read today was very good...in National Geographic:

      http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/07/130717-sugar-substitutes-nutrasweet-splenda-stevia-baking/
    • Posts: 234 Member
      I quit diet soda a few years ago after reading some really bad stories about what it did to people. I ended up switching to regular soda. Obviously, that wasn't the best alternative, but given my heavy soda and caffeine addiction, that was the route I chose.

      When I decided to kick caffeine and soda as a whole, I used a weaning method. I slowly tapered down my caffeine usage (by alternating caffeinated sodas with caffeine-free ones) until I finally quit entirely. My withdrawal lasted only a few hours instead of several days. (headache and VERY irritable!)

      Now, I enjoy a soda as a budgeted treat, and I do NOT drink diet sodas. Everyone's experience is different, but for me, I found that after quitting aspartame, my random dizzy spells went away. After a few months, my lower back pain (localized pain near my tailbone that chiropractors couldn't fix) went away. I didn't know why it went away at the time, but last year I started drinking diet sodas again and the pain came back with a vengeance.

      Big cheers for quitting! It's not easy giving up the flavored drinks, but you WILL learn to love and crave plain old water. And it's cheaper! :P
    • Posts: 352 Member
      I've gone 5 years w/o any soda. Don't miss it all. :)
    • Posts: 2,819 Member
      Yeah, it's tough - I've been working on cutting back on both soda and coffee --- going pretty well

      One cup of coffee per day has a lot of health benefits (it's the suggested amount). One cup turns out to be great diabetes prevention and contains plenty of antioxidants!
    • Posts: 730 Member
      Good for you! I can see where I might be able to reduce my intake of diet coke but no chance of eliminating it. That one can per day means too much to me.. lol Best of luck!
    • Posts: 308 Member
      the caffeine withdrawl is the worst (I stopped drinking regular soda)
      the migraines mid afternoon, ergh!
      But I was able to sidetrack it with some fresh brewed berry black tea, with a splash of lemon.
      Really nixed those headaches!
    • Posts: 297 Member
      I was a diet soda junkie. I quit in January and I've never looked back. I have to say it was WAY easier than I thought. I drink water, white tea, lemonade or ice tea maybe a couple times a week and a very occasional beer or wine with dinner. I've started losing again and I feel great. My skin and hair look better. It's amazing what a HUGE difference a small change can make.

      Congrats to you, OP!!
    • Posts: 688 Member
      Congrats! Huge accomplishment! It is funny but I just realized I haven't had a diet soda in weeks. I just don't like them anymore....funny how that works! I like my water (and coffee, lots of coffee) :drinker:
    • Posts: 152 Member
      Stay with it! I have been Coke 0 free for seven months. It was hard to break; but, I am so happy I did. Now, I binge on unsweetened tea with lemon. Good luck to you. :smile:
    • Posts: 3,832 Member
      Water, iced tea, coffee and unsweetened seltzer waters have totally replaced my Diet Coke. The last time I tried it, I ended up dumping it down the sink because it tasted vile to me.

      Avoiding the diet coke and artificial sweeteners in general is really helping with appetite control. And it's a lot cheaper to throw some teabags in a jug of water than buying the soda!
    • Posts: 2,674 Member
      Good job! I like fizzy drinks, my preference being kombucha, or mineral water with citrus juice squeezed in.
    • Posts: 121 Member
      I'm at about 6 weeks without having any. I was typically having 1 or 2 diet cokes a day. Nothing too serious but I figured it wouldnt be too hard to give up. The only thing I really crave diet coke with is pepperoni pizza. Well... last couple of times I've had pizza--I just had a veggie pizza (peppers,onions,mushrooms,blk olives) or cheese pizza. When I do finally have pepperoni pizza again which I am sure I will--I might make an exception and have a DC--else its soda free all the way. Good luck. Its not that hard to stop. I really enjoy my green iced tea with a touch of lemonade on top or a soda water with lemon instead. Or even a can of Miller lite :)
    • Posts: 971 Member
      I'm a total Diet Coke addict. I think I'm going to try and kick the habit to see if I notice any changes.
    • Posts: 4,064 Member
      I've cut back A LOT on my fave...Diet Pepsi. I'll have a diet soda once in a while now, as a treat. The aspartame is so bad for you.
    • Posts: 12,589 Member
      Were you expecting to feel bad? I don't think I get the point. It's just diet soda.
    • Posts: 6
      Congratulations, and good luck on continuing this. As a diabetic, I only drink diet soda (Diet Coke) and if I'm around it, then that is all I will drink. I currently work in a convenience store. It's just right there.

      I cut it out completely for about 5 months. Once, I even cut soda completely for about 5 years. (No McDonald's in that same 5 year period, either). But, I was sedentary so I actually gained weight :(

      It's time to get serious about my weight loss and cut it out again, I believe.
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