Addicted to Diet Coke!

I'd change Drs straight away if mine thought that a zero calorie drink could add body fat, let alone being stupid enough to think it can add it to a specific area.

muwee72 wrote: »

Its addicting. I was drinking them from the time I got out of bed till went to bed again. I am now down to 3 a day. Much better

Congrats on cutting back, I'm working on that myself. My weight loss was better when I cut it out completely.

muwee72 wrote: »

Oh my god thats another one of my addictions. I literally just made a salad with light ranch ugh. Salad is pretty but on a android phone can't post pic but its horrible with light ranch

I'm with you on light dressings, I much prefer the full fat. My salads tend to be pretty low fat on their own, so I need that bit of fat from the dressing or I'm foraging for something else less than an hour later.

muwee72 wrote: »

I am on the light ranch but the flavor is soo not the same. I am trying though. I am doing a 21 day fit. I wanted to get on diet pills from the doc and she rufused and told me to try 21 day fit

Diet pills are nonsense. Junk. Waste of money. You need to burn more calories than you consume. That's it. You can't expect to enjoy all the same things and do the same thing...and lose weight. You CAN make changes, including learning to like new things, different flavors, lighter fare, and lose weight. Full fat dressings are one of the worst things you can eat - completely ruins the salad's health benefits.

Try some of these, I think you will be surprised how easily and quickly you can remove ranch dressing from your diet.
http://www.eatthis.com/salad-dressings-for-weight-loss

fitmom4lifemfp wrote: »

muwee72 wrote: »

I am on the light ranch but the flavor is soo not the same. I am trying though. I am doing a 21 day fit. I wanted to get on diet pills from the doc and she rufused and told me to try 21 day fit

Diet pills are nonsense. Junk. Waste of money. You need to burn more calories than you consume. That's it. You can't expect to enjoy all the same things and do the same thing...and lose weight. You CAN make changes, including learning to like new things, different flavors, lighter fare, and lose weight. Full fat dressings are one of the worst things you can eat - completely ruins the salad's health benefits.

Try some of these, I think you will be surprised how easily and quickly you can remove ranch dressing from your diet.
http://www.eatthis.com/salad-dressings-for-weight-loss

You don't have to stop eating or drinking anything, you just need moderation.

And adding full fat dressing does not magically evaporate the micros.

MiiiMiii225 wrote: »

I thought I was addicted to soda and energy drinks. Turns out I just like to drink something all day - tea, water, coffee.

I'm the same way. This is why I like no calorie drinks (water, unsweetened chilled tea, coffee, diet coke, LaCroix, whatever). I actually figured this out way before I had a weight issue, though, so I didn't get to cut calories just by cutting out caloric beverages, sigh.

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I agree. You should give up Diet Soda. Full of artificial chemicals and what not. Half of those words most of us cannot even pronounce correctly...

Drink Small Batch Craft Beer made from natural ingredients, from Planet Earth, the way it was meant to be.

muwee72 wrote: »

She said its been linked to adding fat to the stomach area and she wants all natural foods

Hornsby wrote: »

muwee72 wrote: »

She said its been linked to adding fat to the stomach area and she wants all natural foods

She is wrong.

Yeah...a 0 calorie drink has no impact on weight gain. That's like saying water makes you fat.

fitmom4lifemfp wrote: »

Full fat dressings are one of the worst things you can eat - completely ruins the salad's health benefits.

LOL!!! Thanks for the laugh.
It does not ruin a salad. How exactly would it do that? Do you have any scientific papers that prove this? Does ranch have special absorbing properties where none of the micro nutrients of the salad make it to the stomach? Does ranch dressing disintegrate fiber?

Hornsby wrote: »

@fitmom4lifemfp How does full fat dressing "ruin" the health benefits of a salad? That's silly.

Okay bad wording. It can RUIN your day, calorie-wise. The salad, being naturally low-calorie, can be completely negated, calorie-wise, with full fat dressing.

1 - You're not addicted, you just like it. That's okay.

2 - There ARE studies that link diet soda consumption to increased appetite, and uncontrolled appetite can lead to weight gain. Work on your willpower, and it should be less of an issue. A no-calorie beverage in and of itself is not the culprit for your weight. You know that.

3 - Stopping diet soda altogether may help you de-bloat, which will be a fun drop in weight. Drinking a gallon or so of water a day is a GREAT way to help stay unbloated from water weight, and to curb appetite from thirst as opposed to actual hunger.

4 - Full fat dressings are FINE on salads, so long as you measure them exactly (I prefer to use a food scale as opposed to volume measurements, as those can be less exact) and track them in your allotted calories for the day. Fat didn't make you fat (if you are), either. Eating more overall than you consume did.

5 - Weight loss pills prescribed by an actual medical doctor can be effective in the short term. They won't teach you healthy habits, or how to feed yourself properly for your current or a lower weight, however, so they won't help you KEEP any weight you may lose, off permanently, resulting in the cycle of loss/gain that most people find themselves mired in forever. Make the changes, do it slow, do it right, and you'll succeed.

fitmom4lifemfp wrote: »

Hornsby wrote: »

Well to be fair, everyone was just going off of what you said. There was nothing to "figure out".

To be fair, your are right - there was nothing to figure out. It was really pretty simple. Hope I have cleared it up for you.

Yes, now that you have completely changed what you said, you have cleared it up. Thanks