Celebrating the removal of "Diet Coke" from my life menu!

I've never ever EVER been attracted to regular coke at all - I don't know exactly why I was attracted to Diet Coke in the first place, but that was all I ever drank, apart from water when I felt like it. I've been soda free for .... at least 3 weeks now, and I'm finding it a lot easier to defiantly say no to soda whenever I'm out running errands or with people. Just the other day, my grandmother and I went out to lunch and a movie for Easter, and I skipped the soda at the restaurant and the movie theatre, and I felt really good about it. :]

YAY! good job!

have to say though...I will never give it up. I call it the "sweet nectar of the Gods". LOL it's my only vice...I don't drink, smoke or eat badly anymore. So nope...it stays!!!

ugh, you girls are like my heroes because Diet Coke is one of those things that I can't seem to shake. I will get rid of it for a week or two, but then somehow it sneaks its way back in.

I'm with you on this one ! I've kicked it once before for a few weeks but the headaches that came were not a fun thing. I happened to start drinking the diet soda again after the holidays but I've since limited it to dinner. I'm looking to stop for good though !

Good for you. Diet sodas are not good for you anyway! The only good thing is they are low in calories, but they are finding the chemicals to be bad for you. I only drink water, which gets boring. I also try to stick with Stevia for a sugar substitute. It is healthier and a natural grown item. I will have a glass or wine with dinner, it I can get it in my calorie limit.

I made it exactly a day and a half without the diet coke. Damn near fell asleep on my desk at work! And...I usually only drink 1 a day. Okay, maybe 2..the second one later in the evening, and i buy those little bitty cans. I ususally get a fountain one on the way to work, and it lasts me till lunch. Couldn't believe how tired i was!!! I need to try again. Thanks for the little kick..I needed it.

I've quit Diet Coke too. The first few days were really tough, I'd have to say. I didn't realize that you could actually get hooked on that stuff, even tho I only drank one or two at the most/day! After that, it got easier, and pretty soon, I didn't even miss it. Now, it almost seems too sweet to me to have with food, and not as refreshing and satisfying as water or unsweetened iced tea.

There are still some things that I eat, on occasion, that I'd like to have a Diet Coke with - pizza or popcorn, for ex. Who wants water with popcorn??? But b/c I rarely eat that stuff, I rarely need to have soda.

Btw, before I dropped the soda, I had plateaued, for almost a month! When I cut out the diet sodas, I lost 3 lbs - boom! I swear, there is something evil in that stuff, altho tasty. Anything that police use to remove blood from asphalt, or that can dissolve car paint, probably shouldn't be ingested, lol!

I'm on day 17 of no Diet Coke. I occasionally miss it and there have been a couple of times where I reach for one when I'm out shopping out of habit, but I'm luckily stopped myself before I drink it. Other than that I really haven't missed it yet. I'm not committing to giving it up ENTIRELY for the rest of my life, but until I get strong enough to just have 1 can every now and then and not sit and drink a 6 pack in 2 days then I'm saying no. Good luck and congrats!

I stopped drinking sodas about 18 months ago, and I regularly give my body a break from coffee... the trick I find works is to substitute something else in. For the sodas, I substituted in soda water with a little Torani syrup in a fruit flavor. It was much easier to stop drinking the diet coke with the home made soda as a substitute, and getting off the home made soda was fairly easy. Now I can't stand the thought of drinking soda, either regular or diet!

When I stop drinking coffee for a while, I first switch to iced tea for a week or two, then stop drinking the iced tea. I have not yet intended to stop drinking coffee forever (a girl needs her vices, after all!), so each time I wait the designated amount of time (usually 8 weeks) before starting the coffee again. Funny thing is that I enjoy coffee more after one of my breaks.

Bottom line: If you have troubles cutting back/stopping something like soda, try switching to a new habit that is similar but less appealing to you.

Does it really make a difference to not have the Diet coke? It is my favorite! I try to only have on can a day.. or every other day.
I do find that if I have a soda that day, my water intake is less.

First, to the OP, GOOD FOR YOU! Soda, to me, is one of those things I don't keep in the house, by choice. (Though when there is a 2 Liter, I make sure it's diet).

Now, as far as the question quoted above, I read an article (http://healthland.time.com/2011/04/22/study-diet-soda-may-not-raise-risk-of-diabetes-after-all/) that talks about studies of Diabetes and Diet Sodas and that there doesn't appear to be a link between the disease, but more so the type of person. Meaning, people on diets or with diabetes may just drink diet-soda by default because of that 0 calorie nutrition lable.

I think the very last sentence in this article means a LOT, especially in the dieting world: "moderate consumption is not going to have appreciable harmful effects". Just make sure to get that water in! Soda of any kind doesn't count towards water consumption! :-)

Good for you! I too have given it up and can really see a difference in how I feel. For anyone trying to change to a healthy way of eating....for those of us who just crave the stuff....it's better to get rid of it for good. I suffered from migraines for years until I gave it up and not had one since! But the headaches on withdrawal lasted for 4 days. Honestly, I felt like an alcoholic giving up the drink...total detox like stuff! Lots of people have said, and I agree, that it really cuts down on your water intake. One of the things helping me lose wt is when I stick to my daily water intake. Also, I've read that caffeine can mess with your blood sugar, so that's not helping either, and in veterinary medicine, Nutrasweet is used as an appetite stimulate in sick animals.......so I tend to think it would have the same affect on humans too! Good Luck with this....it's not easy but YOU CAN DO IT! :flowerforyou:

I am 25 and have struggled with this all my life. I remember going to 7-11 as a kid after school and getting soda (Diet cause my Mom was a calorie nut) and some sort of snack. So it's kind of engrained in me and It's carried with me ever since. I have recently found a lot of problems with it from different research I have heard which is slowly chipping away at my habit. It definetly causes headaches and migraines that I previously associated with other things (like most addicts). The aspertaim in it also tricks your body and makes you produce insulin which they say makes you hungrier which none of us really want. I also saw on NBC nightly news several months ago that they are linking caramel color to cancer. I have personally only experienced the headaches and don't won't to take the risk that it will affect me later in life. The scary thing is that this stuff had only been around for so long and we don't have any real long term studies that show it's effects (even if there was we would never hear it because of the money Coke and Pepsi have). It's a struggle for me everyday and I hope like most of us to kick the habit for good eventually. Good luck everyone!

Moderation is the key. I will drink a Diet Coke on occasion maybe 1 serving a week or every other week to break up the water and unsweet tea routine.