Help me quit Diet coke!

Meh. I don't think there's anything wrong with a diet coke a day. I would just try to cut the snacking habit if you're just snacking to snack. Seems you're aware of the habit, so it won't be that bad to curtail.

Smaller glasses if you're snacking because of it. The sweetners in diet coke aren't the best for your body, so try just water with a little unsweetened fruit juice to flavour.

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diet coke os gross and will kill you.

coke zero on the other hand will make all your dreams come true :drinker:

She's on the money - switch to coke zero and you're sorted .

Aspartme studies from 50's and 60's show it will kill you, by causing tumors. Also increases unhealthy gut bacteria, which causes belly fat (increases in Candida - a bacterial parasite which makes you crave crabs, sugar etc)

I never had a diet coke addiction---but I most certainly had a Regular Coke addiction. One year ago, I was drinking several liters a day--waking up nauseous EVERY morning, usually puking, never associating the two--and then I found out a girl that was only in her early 30's died from drinking the amount of Coke I did. They said it wasn't just the usual caffeine and copious amounts of sugar that caused her body to malfunction--but the incredible amounts of phosphoric acid and other chemicals in it. There's a reason it can clean toilets and rust off of boats (and make pennies all shiny again--those things are gross but it ALWAYS cleans em!)

I didn't want to die--I don't even want to shorten my life for that--and the side effects were horrendous. Obviously I consumed a lot more than you are doing, but I needed to quit. Had my last Coke on January 3rd of 2013---haven't really touched it since. When I was on vacation- I allowed myself to have Coke again if I wanted it (this was in August of 2013). Well, it tasted like CRAP! I hated it! I took like 4 sips and tossed it out. Now, I truly don't even want it anymore. My cravings and addiction to it are completely gone and I'd prefer just about anything else over it. I'm a huge seltzer freak now, but largely it's just plain ol' water for me.

One diet soda a day won't cause all the problems I have--but when a substance can cause problems like that at ALL--it really makes you question!

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/are-artificial-sweeteners-safe/

I've yet to read anything that convinced me that diet soda, consumed in moderation, is unsafe.

That said, if you have certain medical conditions or if diet soda makes you crave more sweets, then cutting it out might be best.

Since it doesn't seem like that your issue so much, then just try not putting so much in your glass at the beginning of your meal.

Aspartme studies from 50's and 60's show it will kill you, by causing tumors. Also increases unhealthy gut bacteria, which causes belly fat (increases in Candida - a bacterial parasite which makes you crave crabs, sugar etc)

From the last I saw, those studies showed that it would kill rats if they ingested massive amounts of it.

If you had a similar dose per body weight by drinking coke the water would have killed you a long, long, long time before the Aspartame did.

From that we can see that actually this nasty water, or 'DHMO' is much more dangerous than Aspartame and should be avoided at all costs.

Other studies I believe HAVE shown that for SOME people it can increase cravings for simple carbs.
It does not for me, so that does not bother you.
If it does for an individual and they don't want that behaviour, then certainly stop.
For me, if anything it has the opposite effect.

There's a reason it can clean toilets and rust off of boats (and make pennies all shiny again--those things are gross but it ALWAYS cleans em!)

Because it's reasonably acidic. Just like your stomach, actually. So you're putting something reasonably acidic in to a bit of your body that is.... already reasonably acidic. That doesn't sound like a recipe for disaster to me .

I've kicked the coke zero habit before (like when I got made redundant, so didn't need to be alert at a specific time etc) - just went cold turkey. It's the caffeine not the coke, of course, it's just that I don't drink coffee or tea, so this is my normal method for getting the drug.

For almost all my adult life, I have had diet coke with my evening meal. So much so, that I now enjoy my food better with it. I really don't think it has a huge detrimental impact on my body, but occasionally I do tend to snack because my diet coke glass isn't empty!!! i hear you all gasping, but I'm working on throwing any leftover drink down the sink, it's purely psychological. Any tips to ditch this habit?! I tried fizzy water for a while. It's ok. Someone tell me it's going to kill me, and I'll stop

I am 2 years 7 months with no Coke/Diet Coke/Pepsi etc.. I had a kidney stone that nearly went into kidney failure. My urologist told me no diet restrictions other than soda/tea/coffee were non starters from this point forward. When I protested he told me to drink all I want b/c 'I've got 4 kids to put through school'. I admired his candor and that ended the discussion. I drink water, gatorade when I need it, beer when I want it and wine/liquor as well. It was tough for a few months, but now is a breeze and I don't miss it.

So just realize that besides that stuff being awful for you, you may save yourself from getting kidney stones which anyone can tell you are no fun

Come to the Pepsi side.

Too hardcore for me - can't handle that level of caffeine!

(Seriously - despite having 'dablled' in all sorts years ago and generally having reasonable tolerance, after getting a pack of Pepsi Max because it was cheaper, I had a can then another a bit over an hour later as was still a bit tired and that left me 'buzzing'!... turns out 2 cans of pepsi is over 4 cans of Coke Zero worth of caffeine - 'extreme!!!!')