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    Cutting out coffee or diet coke

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    • Posts: 5,727 Member
      johnslater461 wrote: »
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      You wake up every 2 hours screaming, with a load in your pants?

      No, just hungry and looking for food :wink:
    • Posts: 1,283 Member
      edited June 2018
      I love Diet Coke. Love. It. (I'm drinking one right now.) That being said, I'm really trying to eliminate them totally. I can't seem to drink them in moderation, they're bad for my teeth, I don't need the extra caffeine. But most importantly, I think it makes my sweet tooth worse. It's just a hard vice to give up and it's really the only vice I have. Coffee I could never give up and never will. I only have 2 cups a day and it's been 2 years since I gave up putting sugar in my coffee and I don't miss it. I use just a little splash of skim or fat-free half and half. I don't think there is anything wrong w/ coffee healthwise. My grandmother is 91 and drinks ONLY coffee and has her entire life. I've never seen her drink anything else. Even ordering dinner at a restaurant at night, it's always coffee. (and then she complains that she can't sleep....but she's a little crazy)
    • Posts: 11,233 Member
      stanmann571 wrote: »
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      Don't get me wrong, I can still chug a mt dew and go right to sleep, but the sleep won't be quite as good.

      i sleep with three dogs so my quality of sleep depends on how interesting the sounds of the night are
    • Posts: 6,252 Member
      diannethegeek wrote: »
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      What's with this weird dichotomy people have created where foods are either healthy or unhealthy? When did we lose the idea of neutral foods? Why can't we accept that a food can fit into a balanced diet without having to be the omg healthiest choice on earth?

      An inevitable output of echo chambers and unchallenged communication. We've significantly lost the ability to understand viewpoints extending beyond our own experience.
    • Posts: 17 Member
      I found giving up all products with caffeine in it helps me sleep better and now feel a lot more active and alert as a result
    • Posts: 4,855 Member
      costap123 wrote: »
      Two years ago I cut out soda and now it feels unnatural to drink it.

      Glad you feel better
    • Posts: 852 Member
      0.5L of coffee is my pre-workout, with a splash of 1/2 and 1/2. If my BG is below 100 mg/dL I'll have a banana as well.
    • Posts: 390 Member
      If i want to have diet coke yes i will drink it. I have cut it down but somedays i like to have a diet coke as a treat instead of cake/choc for example. It really does help and with 0 cals its fantastic. Diet coke may not be exactly healthy but that aint stopping me
    • Posts: 16 Member
      My two cents. Getting used to and eventually reveling in the harsh bitterness of black coffee and espresso enhances the subtleties of other foods. Conversely, getting used to sweeter flavors tends to set your palate's baseline somewhere on the sweeter end of the spectrum. And it's a lot easier to stick to a healthy diet if you're not constantly craving sweetness.
    • Posts: 2 Member
      I cut out 'fat' coke and only drink Zero now. I don't drink beer, wine, cider or spirits so a glass of Zero a day shouldn't do me too much harm. I also drink 2 litres of water a day.
      I have Unsweetened Almond milk in my tea and coffee (1 cup of each a day) without sugar.
      A Starbucks Almond milk latte is only 80 calories compared to almost 200 for a standard milk latte. I only have this about once a month and they taste superb.
      I haven't purposely gone dairy free it just seems to have happened that way.
    • Posts: 94 Member
      Mandylou19912014 wrote: »
      I would cut out both to be honest. Any carbonated drinks aren’t great for your teeth .. coffee just makes you dependant on it for energy .. I can’t drink it as it gives me heart palpitations but people who I know who do drink it try to cut back on it

      Same here with the heart palpitations, but I'd also get charlie horses. I found out what the problem was... for some reason caffeinated stuff seems to really suck the potassium outta me. If I consume extra potassium it goes away.

      I was freakin out the first time I got heart palpitations. thought I was gonna have a heart attack or something. But I'd always had charlie horses and my doctor told me to eat a few bananas each day.

      I accidentally figured out caffeine was causing the heart palpitations too because I would take the potassium for the charlie horses and the heart palpitations would go away with em.

      Apparently, for some ppl, too much caffeine causes hypokalemia (I probably chopped that spelling up)... I would definitely fit well in the group who overdoes it on caffeine... it's one of the last bad habits I still have to kick.

      I quit smoking, quit drinking, quit with the junk food, but I'm having a hell of a time with the caffeine.
    • Posts: 9,150 Member
      Mandylou19912014 wrote: »
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      Not sure how good your dentist is, but drinking fizzy drinks is bad for your teeth .. FACT

      Drink with a straw. No fizzy liquid near teeth, so no erosion. As PP pointed out, fruit juices erode teeth as well. WIll you cut out all fruit?
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