I can't seem to give up the fizz...

Don't. I like the fizz too. How about trying club soda or Perrier water?

I like club soda with fruit juice. Pomegranate juice and cherry juice are tasty and the flavor seems concentrated, so I only need a tablespoon or so per glass.

Have you tried to taper it rather than just giving it up cold turkey? Might be easier that way lol. I use to drink tons of soda but I stopped since it wasn't available in my house for a while and I guess I just stopped without much thought of going back to it. The only flavored thing I drink now is my pre workout, only water outside of that.

How about giving up beer??? I am beginning to see that my hardest hurdle to over come is BEER!! lol. Having a a night of fun on the weekends....and I do mean an excess over two beers, lol, can really put your calorie intake overboard. Having 6 - 8 beers on a weekend night really messes up my whole weekend counting calories!

My dietitian recommended I dilute my diet soda with water starting out with just 10% water (90% diet soda) & keep working towards mixing in more water. I've found it easy to get to a 50/50 mixing (immediately with water) for my favorite diet sodas (Diet Mountain Dew, Diet Orange, Diet Grape--but don't like the colas) & now don't really care for the "full-strength" taste as the "fizz" sensation feels like it's burning my tongue. Eventually I'd like to get to the point of not having diet soda at all and just using a little of the "water enhancers" (i.e. Stevia Select, Honest H2O, etc.) to help me drink more water throughout the day.

I've also discovered pomegranate iced tea, a nice replacement and quite refreshing, shame it is so difficult to get hold of this particular brand in the UK

Cascade Ice is like drinking diet soda but without the bad stuff in it

rankinsect wrote: »

you will pry diet cola out of my cold, dead hands. Everyone will have a few bad/less healthy habits, I figure this can be one of mine.

This.

if your primary goal is plain old, unadulterated weight loss, then don't worry about cutting out diet soda.

the prevailing credo of MFP - the motto, the anthem - is that Calories In be less than Calories Out.

diet soda has zero calories and, as such, can be consumed in unlimited fashion.

(if, like me, you've declared carbohydrates the enemy, then there's more good news - most whiskey has zero carbs, as well...so if you were somebody-who-shall-remain-nameless over here and happened to enjoy one or two George Dickel Black Label and Diet Dr. Peppers every now and then...well, you'll have to figure in the whiskey calories, but none from the soda.)

now...having said that, if you're looking at weight loss as a component of a bigger-picture commitment to improving your health, then google "Aspartame" and start reading some of the search results. (and note the irony of the fact that the Snopes rebuttal was written by an official from the FDA, the organization responsible for foisting the stuff on the world in the first place.)

but once you swear off Aspartame, High Fructose Corn Syrup won't be far behind, and the next thing you know, you'll have narrowed your diet down to tree bark and the random cucumbers that you've grown in a flowerpot behind your kitchen sink.

there's a happy medium in there somewhere...my happy medium is that i can't dodge every bullet that flies my way, so I moderate as best as I can. I've lost over 50 pounds drinking diet soda all the way. your mileage may vary, but give the notion of quitting as much of a voice as you're able to hear without derailing you.

I just started drinking diet soda. Never have before. I'm pretty happy about it actually.

I also drink La Croix sparking water though. The coconut is amazing (and works well with rum)

What's wrong with diet soda?