DIET DRINKS?

This is often a touchy subject. I don’t see anything wrong with a diet soda once and awhile. The sodium isn’t too bad. Just make sure you are also getting your water intake. Water is the key to losing weight :drinker:

According to my doctor, diet drinks are terrible for your diet. Your body doesn't recognize artificial sweeteners as sweet but your taste buds DO. They keep your taste buds wanting something sweet. Plus, artificial sweetners are just bad for you in general and sodas cause bone loss. If you want something sweet -- try drinking fruit-flavored green teas with regular sugar but each time use less and less sugar until you aren't using any. Plus green tea has the added benefit of increasing your metabolism.

I know how you feel... Diet Moutain Dew is like my "crack". I am bad with drinking water, so when I am at work I keep my water bottle attached to me (well within arms legnth, esspecially at work) and take it everywhere to curve my Diet Mountain Dew intake... then I only have one DMD once during the day, at lunch.

According to my doctor, diet drinks are terrible for your diet. Your body doesn't recognize artificial sweeteners as sweet but your taste buds DO. They keep your taste buds wanting something sweet. Plus, artificial sweetners are just bad for you in general and sodas cause bone loss. If you want something sweet -- try drinking fruit-flavored green teas with regular sugar but each time use less and less sugar until you aren't using any. Plus green tea has the added benefit of increasing your metabolism.

I'm probably gonna steal this idea soon!

I am a diet coke drinker also. I hate water. My husband tells me that if I were to leave them alone, I would lose weight. I have been told that they have something in them that makes you crave the wrong foods. Not sure, but would love to know.

I'm exactly the same as you! I hate water!

There is hope for both of you, I used to hate water too, now I only drink water (well, after my one cup of coffee in the morning, it is all water, all day), and I enjoy it!

I know that diet sodas are bad simply because they are artificial. but I do love my diet pepsi. i usually set my limit at 1 per day, but the last few days i haven't even craved it so i haven't had one. and i'm a person who would drink diet soda-pop all the time if i could. but i've been drinking my water (i don't mind water and after drinking a glass i do feel better) and have added some green tea in the afternoon to replace my usualy DP and also a cup of chai tea in the evening (made with about 1/4 cup of milk) and that makes me very sleepy.

moderation is the key. i'm a firm believer in that!

I used to drink 1 or 2 cans of Diet Coke a day. I've noticed a big difference since I dropped that to 1 or 2 a week. I am less bloated and I crave sweet things less often. I also think I retain less water - as I am replacing the diet coke with lots of water.

It was tough to give up, but after a couple of weeks, I stopped missing it (a bit like pretzels and chocolate bars!). You don't have to give it up totally - just make it a treat.

I sympathise with people that say they hate water - but if you can drink water with as few additives in it as possible, I think it is probably better for you. I drink a lot of peppermint/fruit 'teas' (no tea in them mind, they are more just 'infusions') or water with a splash of sugar free cordial in it (still got some sweeteners, but a little less than diet soda.


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I used to be addicted to Diet Dr. Pepper. I easily drank 6 or so a day. I had to MAKE myself drink water. I got use to it, now I have only 2 or 3 a day, and I hardly ever drink the whole can. You just gotta put your mind to it and be willing to make a change.

There are quite a few reasons drinking diet soda is bad for you. Now I'm not saying if you have it once in a while you are gonna get cancer and die, but those who drink it everyday are putting themselves in danger.

1. Aspartame- It's poison. No way around it. Despite US FDA approval as a "safe" food additive, aspartame is one of the most dangerous substances added to foods. After you drink an aspartame-sweetened product, aspartame breaks down into its starting components: phenylalanine, aspartic acid, and methanol (that further converts to formaldehyde and formic acid, which are known carcinogens.). There are over 92 different health side effects associated with aspartame consumption....

2.Obesity- Yes,Diet Soda Can Make You Fat!! Fowler and her team studied more than 1500 people between the ages of 25 and 64, looking at whether each consumed regular or diet soft drinks. It was no surprise to find a correlation between the daily consumption of multiple cans of all soft drinks and obesity — which they did. But, as Fowler noted, “What was surprising was when we looked at people only drinking diet soft drinks; their risk of obesity was even higher” [than that of those drinking regular soft drinks]. In fact, Fowler found that for each can of diet soft drink consumed per day, the risk of obesity went up by 41%.No one can deny that a diet soda has fewer calories than a regular soda. If you get a disproportionate amount of your daily caloric intake from soda and then you switch to diet soda, you may lose weight. But I emphasize the word may, because it appears that artificial sweeteners can actually set us up to gain more weight.Diet sodas are billed as being good for type 2 diabetics and other blood-sugar- challenged types, but they aren’t. Because of something called the “cephalic phase response,” your body tastes the sweetness, and even though there are no calories to shuttle, the brain triggers a release of insulin from the pancreas and also a “Sugar is coming! Stop-burning fat” response from the liver. The result is the usual array of insulin-related problems (increased urge to eat, increased tendency toward fat storage, pro-inflammatory biochemical cascade), plus an arrest of healthy protein-and-starch production, and a confusion of the body’s built-in caloric monitoring systems, all of which compel you to plump up and eat even more unhealthy stuff later. (For more on this dynamic, read the article, “Poor Substitutes.”)

3.Diet sodas and the chemically derived artificial sweeteners they contain (especially aspartame) may act as neurotoxins and have been linked to headaches, memory problems, anxiety, brain fog, depression, skin irritations, menstrual problems, fibromyalgia, joint pain and more.

4.The acids in diet soda (and regular soda, for that matter) eat away at the enamel on your teeth. They also are acidifying to your entire system, and thus disruptive to your general health, including the good flora in your gut, where about 60 percent of your immune system resides.

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I hate water too but I drink bottle waters and they are 100 times better than faucet water and I've been on this diet for two weeks now and nothing but water and u will honestly find yourselves not craving cokes and honestly before this a glass of water would never pass my lips cokes are my weakness like an addiction so if ur finding it hard to stop drinking slowly adjust yourself to one diet coke every two days but drink water the other times and slowly train ur body and if u have to go buy those crystal light packets that u can put in ur water to make it a juice and they are only 5 calories and u only need have because the whole packet makes it too sweet but they really good but it helps to get ur body drinking water... but trust me the more u drink the easier it gets.:)