Day 5 Without Diet Soda
Revkenny1973
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Feeling great! Coffee to help kick the day off then nothing but water the rest of the day.
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congrats - - i need to do this too.....but i hate coffee and i love caffeine......0
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I have thought about it. I am not there yet.0
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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 kicked0
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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
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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!0 -
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!0 -
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.0 -
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.0 -
I'm trying to reduce and then eliminate artificial sweetener and limit my sugar intake. Good Luck!!! We ca do it!0
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Probably the healthiest thing you can possibly do for yourself! Congrats!0
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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.0 -
Yeah, it's tough - I've been working on cutting back on both soda and coffee --- going pretty well0
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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/0 -
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! :P0 -
I've gone 5 years w/o any soda. Don't miss it all.0
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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!0 -
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!0
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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!0 -
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!!0
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