Coffee or Diet Coke ?
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Nothing is wrong with either, but if you just want to give them up for fun, I’d suggest giving up diet coke first. Less caffeine, you can wean yourself off of it and then coffee.
I quit coffee cold turkey last month, from a ridiculously high caffeine intake. The withdrawals are no joke.0 -
If you're ultimate goal is to give up both it doesn't particularly matter which one you start with, you'll end up in the same place either way. It sounds like you're micromanaging details that don't ultimately matter. I'd save my brain power for something that actually helped like how I'm going to manage the headaches and grogginess of caffeine withdrawal. I'm not saying you shouldn't cut them, just that it will be tough.2
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I rarely drink coke (or any soft drinks) anymore. I have at least 2 cups of coffee pre day with light cream/sugar. By my estimates they are less than 100 calories each. I can trade that for some food because I can't give up my coffee!0
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Diet coke1
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Oh, give me a break. Half and half has 20 calories per tablespoon, sugar has 16 calories per teaspoon. Coffee with cream and sugar is not a "calorie bomb" at all and you can budget for it just like you can any other food. You don't have to "learn to like it dark". That's not what CICO is about at all.
Deprive yourself of something you love and you're asking for trouble when you start resenting the deprivation down the road.20 -
How many calories are in the coffee? How much do you enjoy the coffee -- is it worth the tradeoff (other things you could consume with the calories) to you? I love coffee black, more than with stuff in it, so it's easy for me to think the obvious choice is to drink coffee black, but if you really love it as is and don't enjoy it so much black, you have to figure out if the calories are worth it. You also might be able to reduce the calories without reducing your enjoyment.
Diet Coke, eh, I don't see a particular reason to give that up as part of a weightloss plan. It's unlikely to affect weight loss unless you find you want to eat more in general when consuming it (it's never affected me that way), which is something you can figure out by tracking and seeing if you can stay in calories. I don't think there's anything wrong with cutting out diet soda if you want to, but I think sometimes something like that can seem easier than just creating a sensible diet with a calorie deficit and ends up detracting from the changes you need to make to reach your weight loss goal. If you drink a whole lot, try substituting some other beverages, though (water, for example).1 -
I gave up
1 Diet Coke
2 Coffee with two creamers and artificial sweetener
3 Now I drink coffee with 1 Tbsp SF hazelnut creamer
HAPPY!2 -
You can pry my coffee and Coke Zero out of my cold, dead hands.
Well, actually, thanks to coffee, those will be comfortably warm, dead hands. I believe I'll go get another cup of coffee.9 -
hmmmm. none. add whiskey to your coffee.or baileys. irish cream?6
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Oh, give me a break. Half and half has 20 calories per tablespoon, sugar has 16 calories per teaspoon. Coffee with cream and sugar is not a "calorie bomb" at all and you can budget for it just like you can any other food. You don't have to "learn to like it dark". That's not what CICO is about at all.
Deprive yourself of something you love and you're asking for trouble when you start resenting the deprivation down the road.
It always stumps me when someone refers to a particular food as a calorie bomb.
I have an entire avocado several times a week for breakfast. It usually weights in at around 150-175 calories. With toast and coffee with whole milk my typical breakfast is in the 300 calorie range and keeps me going until midday.
What these comments need is context.5 -
Enjoying my 1% latte with 2 shots - 100 cals and my daily calcium - I don’t see a problem. Later, a Diet Coke with lunch - 99% water - 0 calories. Again, not a problem.
I guess it’s easier for some people to think they can give up something with no or low calories to lose weight instead of actually cutting calories where needed.3 -
JeepHair77 wrote: »You can pry my coffee and Coke Zero out of my cold, dead hands.
Well, actually, thanks to coffee, those will be comfortably warm, dead hands. I believe I'll go get another cup of coffee.
Yes -- lately I've been drinking coffee largely because it's so delightfully warm! I would be so sad without it.0 -
You really don't need to give up either. Diet Coke is no calories. Coffee the way you have described it has calories, so I suppose for calories, I would eliminate the coffee if you had to. But I would just make it fit your daily calories.0
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Depends how much diet coke you're drinking. If it's everyday give up diet coke. If it's like once a week than you don't have to give it up.9
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Ryansworld84 wrote: »ladyhusker39 wrote: »
And why is Diet Coke unhealthy?
In my opinion it is a unhealthy drink to consume on a regular basis. It doesn’t contain anything your body needs nutritionally and can have some negative side effects if dank in excess. At least with my personality if I start drinking a lot of diet pop or keep a case of it in the house I end up drinking way too much and not enough water so I choose to avoid it for the most part. I still do have an occasional diet pop here and there but that is where I leave it.
You can also argue this study vs that study etc but at the end of the day if it doesn't provide your body with something you need you probably should limit it at the least or avoid it all together.
Drink plenty of water each day instead. This is just my opinion of course each person needs to make their own determination as to how far they want to take their nutrition.
I don't drink any water except in my diet coke/tea/coffee
Your body needs hydration, it is personal preference how you do that.10 -
I used to use quite a bit of cream in my coffee, but i kept reducing the amount i put in, then I switched to original creamer and now I drink it black. I still drink Diet soda, but maybe 1 every other day. Coffee I cant give up though. My mind goes 1,000,000,000 miles an hour without it, and it is an appetite suppressant and that helps me so much, I drink like 5 cups a day.
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Diet Coke hands down.5
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Coffee at least has some good benefits for you.8
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I will never give up coffee. Ever. When I was doing WW back in the day, I phased out cream / milk in my coffee - I never drank it with sugar. It was a transition that took some time, but now - I only occasionally drink coffee with milk - in the form of a latte, and it's a hot liquid dessert, NOT coffee. Coffee to me is hot, strong, and black. Calories in black coffee are minimal - like 5 per cup or something.
As to Diet Coke - I never liked diet soda. I did phase out regular soda because I didn't feel the calories were worth it. If I want a fizzy drink I drink club soda or seltzer on ice with a squeeze of lemon or lime.
For the record - my good friend "weaned" herself off diet coke - she adored it, drank lots of it every day - but her family convinced her to eliminate it for her health. She has been off it for months - and she is disappointed that she doesn't feel any different than she did while she enjoyed her diet coke. So there's that. I know that's just her experience and your results will vary. But there you go.
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I will never give up coffee. Ever. When I was doing WW back in the day, I phased out cream / milk in my coffee - I never drank it with sugar. It was a transition that took some time, but now - I only occasionally drink coffee with milk - in the form of a latte, and it's a hot liquid dessert, NOT coffee. Coffee to me is hot, strong, and black. Calories in black coffee are minimal - like 5 per cup or something.
As to Diet Coke - I never liked diet soda. I did phase out regular soda because I didn't feel the calories were worth it. If I want a fizzy drink I drink club soda or seltzer on ice with a squeeze of lemon or lime.
For the record - my good friend "weaned" herself off diet coke - she adored it, drank lots of it every day - but her family convinced her to eliminate it for her health. She has been off it for months - and she is disappointed that she doesn't feel any different than she did while she enjoyed her diet coke. So there's that. I know that's just her experience and your results will vary. But there you go.
I'm in this camp -- I pretty much quit diet soda (I have them occasionally when I'm eating out, but that's it) to save money and the effort of lugging it home from the store and I feel exactly the same.1
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