Day 1 of counting calories, it’s hell..
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Sugar is my drug of choice too. Coke is like crack too. I keep one in the fridge and dare myself to not drink it. How long can I make it last? 2 weeks this time.
I can not do diet drinks, I get skin rash for about 1/2 hour after.
I did buy a Soda Stream adds bubbles to my water. I do not add the sugar to it. I like it best with Lemon. 1/8 slice in each glass of bubbly water. Lime good too.
I also make ice tea from real tea and no sugar.8 -
If you want to switch to lower calorie drinks you can start with replacing 1 a day instead of never having soda pop. Then after a a week or two replace another drink with a low calorie or no calorie option. Replacing just two of your six drinks might reduce your intake by 300 calories and be all you need to change. You don't have a lot to lose so you don't have to make massive changes.
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May I make a suggestion?
If you normally drink 6 or more sodas per day, don't try to go cold turkey. It'll be frustrating, it'll be painful, and the cravings will be insane. Instead, wean yourself off it gradually.
Check this out:- Drink your usual number of sodas (6?) for 6 days, then on the 7th day drink just one less soda than normal. Continue doing this for 1-2 weeks.
- When your 1-2 weeks is up, drink your usual number of sodas for 5 days, and choose TWO days to drink one less than normal. Again, do this for 1-2 weeks.
- 1-2 weeks later, again, your usual quantities for 4 days, then THREE days of drinking one less than usual.
- If you follow this pattern for 7 weeks, you will be down to 5 sodas per day instead of 6 (or however many you start with), reducing your soda intake by seven whole sodas each week!!
- Start the pattern over again. 5 sodas per day for six days, and on the 7th, just 4. By following a pattern of cutting just one soda each week, you can eliminate soda from your diet in under a year!!
If that is too gradual for you, you can try cutting more. But personally, I don't see why you should torture yourself like that. There's no reason to rush and make yourself feel like crap in the process (especially when caffeine withdrawal is involved, UGH). If you want to make this a permanent, long-term change, I think you should be patient with yourself and make changes gradually and gently for your body. You are already making other lifestyle changes on top of this, right? Let yourself have soda. Just a little bit less every day adds up a great deal over time
Just my 2 cents. Best wishes!!8 -
Dr Pepper is mine weakness. I caved today grocery shopping and grabbed a 20 oz bottle of sugar juice. I can't drink Diet Dr Pepper (although Diet Root Beer tastes fine? Diet colas are tolerable?), so it is just an occasional treat. Today was a mistake but you just keep right on going. I like Dr Pepper 10, but apparently since I like it no stores carry it. It's probably being discontinued. Those 10 sugar calories were enough to make Diet Dr Pepper taste enough like regular. *sigh*
I have replaced it with sparkling water, and plain water (luckily I love water). Sparkling water is quite the trend nowdays, and you can find all kinds. I got hooked on La Croix but I've switched to Bubbly because the cans are so much more aesthetically pleasing. I also found some at Target that are made with real fruit juice not "natural and artificial flavoring". Word of caution, one was horrible (it was pink) but I LOVE the lemon ones. Too bad they are more expensive than soda. That is what gets me, way less ingredients, but they are the same price for a 12 pack for an 8 pack. Grrr. There is literally nothing in them, ingredients wise.1 -
Diet soda is suppose to be bad and can up your appitite I hear. I don’t need to watch my sugar I’m just trying to go off what the app says. I just figerd that’s why my weight is up?? Empty calories in all the soda I drink. I don’t diet very well. Rather workout and eat whatever I want. Just slack on working out so long it caught up to me.😔
Even if I believed that diet soda was "bad" and increased your appetite, surely it can't be worse than six cans of Pepsi at 150 calories. If you maintain at 2000 calories that's almost half your calories in just drinks, and I don't think there's enough scientific evidence to convince me to believe either of those things.15 -
There's no reason you have to give up all your soda if that's how you want to get your calories. However, since soda isn't very filling, you're probably going to feel less hungry if you cut back on some of the soda so you can eat more food. Depending on your stats, soda is probably making up half of your day's calorie goal.
I think @MeganinVA has a pretty good plan. Even if you don't follow their steps exactly, try starting with just drinking five sodas a day. Then you can gradually go down to four, etc. You don't have to do it all at once.
Diet soda is not inherently bad or harmful. Some people (like me) don't like the taste, while others sometimes find that it doesn't satisfy their sugar cravings, but it's worth trying to see how you like it.
If you want caffeine, in addition to tea or coffee, you can also buy various low-calorie caffeinated water flavorings. Mio makes some caffeinated versions, for example, as do many other brands.8 -
Also, I just want to put a word in for Coke Zero. One of my friends who drank sugary sodas for years switched to it when he decided to lose weight. And he really likes it. I hate it; it's too sweet for me. But I adore unsweet tea and good ol' Diet Coke, so my taste buds are suspect, anyway.4
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Drink (& calories per 8oz)
* Powerade Zero (0)
* Rockstars/Monsters (look for 0-10 cal)
* Diet V8 Splash (10 cal-ish)
* Ocean Spray Diet Cran Grape (5 cal)
* Unsweetened herbal or fruit tea (brew yourself for 0 cal)3 -
Soda provides a lot of entertainment, no doubt. The fizz, the sugar, the caffeine, the bright shiny containers. That's how the corporations hook ya! Like Satan in a way, one might say.11
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Sugar is life!! I have had 1 soda today and I’m already over my 60grams of sugar. I normally drink like 6. Probably the reason I’m 20lbs over weight..lol, does anyone have a good replacement for soda?
Cool! 60*6 = 360 grams of sugar = roughly 1000 calories right there! You're on to something
See what you like: diet soda, tea, water (sparkling or non-sparkling), diet cordial in water, coffee, hey, what about no calorie fruit infusion teas cooled down and drank with ice cubes? Especially red fruits have a lot of taste.1 -
I drink sparkling water, sometimes with lime cordial, and don't miss soda anymore. But it's hard! Give yourself time to adjust and do it gradually. Calorie counting gets easier and easier.2
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I broke down and I’m drinking another..lol, it’s not worth the caffeine headache. I just know myself, Pepsi is my crack. It’s a slippery slope. Sounds dumb but it’s hard for me.
The solution (pardon the pun!) is Diet Pepsi or more likely Pepsi Max for a sweeter taste.
There's no reason for you to avoid trying diet drinks and even less point to give yourself caffeine withdrawal headaches.
You seem to be intent on making something simple as hard as possible - that really would be dumb.
If your boss gave you a task to do would you deliberately try to make that task as hard and unpleasant as possible?11 -
I swapped out for sparkling water. Occasionally I'd add a drop of cordial but mainly just plain sparkling worked for me.2
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I love regular Pepsi—the one made with real sugar. However, I only have one occasionally. I’ve mostly switched to Spindrift Sparkling Waters when I want a soda. The Raspberry Lime is my favorite.1
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workinonit1956 wrote: »I love regular Pepsi—the one made with real sugar. However, I only have one occasionally. I’ve mostly switched to Spindrift Sparkling Waters when I want a soda. The Raspberry Lime is my favorite.
OMG that is the one! The one I hated so bad. I have a box with one missing cluttering up my pantry. Maybe I'll give it a second try based on your endorsement. I love the Lemon.0 -
Making that one switch: from Pepsi to diet Pepsi, or Pepsi to unsweetened tea may be *all* you need to do to lose the weight. You don't have to give up caffeine. Hell, you don't have to give up Pepsi. But 600+ calories of Pepsi's sugar water a day could be averted. Your call.7
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Sugar is life!! I have had 1 soda today and I’m already over my 60grams of sugar. I normally drink like 6. Probably the reason I’m 20lbs over weight..lol, does anyone have a good replacement for soda?
I will share a funny story with you (and with everyone else....).
So, I have been a fitness freak for the last six years. When I was married, not so much. Before being married, yes....hell yes! Anyway, a quick picture.
While I was married (and I work in IT....but I am *NOT* and "IT Guy"....I am a guy that does IT...I do not get along AT ALL with most "IT Guys") I drank 15 Mountain Dews a day. No lie. No exaggeration. 15 freaking Mountain Dews - a day!
Fast forward to divorced life.
I really cut out soda....in general. Not because of sugar. Not because of calories. Really and truly, just because I enjoy the taste of water. I know! Who knew? And, because I was making an honest effort to get my 10 glasses of water a day. I tell everyone that drinking 10 glasses of water is similar - in concept - to chaning the oil in your car every 5,000 miles: the single best thing that you can easily do for your car. Anyway, I digress (surprise! surprise!).
So, last December (2017) I was on-site closing down a facility. One of our clients closed down a specific location and I was crating all of the servers and networking equipmenet and and and up and putting those two crates on a truck and locking the doors.
They had Coke there. That pretty red can with the cool logo on it. That day I was busting my tail (does not sound like a lot of work, but I take ownership of pretty much everything that I do and I was bound and determined to ensure that not a single piece of equipment would be damanged "in-transit" so I shrinkwrapped the heck out of everything....it was a workout!). Anyway, I had like six Cokes that day. I am really confident that I can say the next sentence....I did not have six Cokes in the previous 18 months before that Wednesday in December, 2017. Well, let me tell you something! HAWT DANG! I felt like absolute doggie poop the rest of that day and the next day. Like I wanted to.....well.........purge the poison from my body (please allow me to put it that way)!
Now, I am one who does not shy away from "experiments". I have a very inquisitive mind and I like to know...not theorize about things. And, to me, there is one way to know 100% - do it! Well, I decided that final Wednesday in December, 2017 to find out what would happen if I drank Coke all day long. I know! And, honestly, I have not had one sip of any kind of soda since that day. 6.5 months later. And have no desire whatsoever to have any soda,
So, Cary - what is your point? Good question! Fair question.
My point is - find out what works for you - and what does not work for you - and stick with that! Soda clearly does not work for me. Not one bit. But, we are all different. If it works for you....if it fills a need....hell yes! Do it. This whole thing (weight loss, health, fitness - whatever words you want to use....and, to be clear, all of those words that I used mean something completely different to me...they are *NOT* interchangeable) is about sustainability. Meaning, can you do this day-in, day-out? If that answer is "NO" then you are bound to fail (whatever that word might mean to you....for me, the word "fail" means to quit....pretty much that is all).
And, in that thought process, if you decide that you are going to try one way....and you give it an honest two months (or whatever time frame) and it does not work - for you - does that mean you failed? Heck no! You learned something. So, you take a path, that path did not work for you, and along that path you learned that X and Y did not work so well for you, but that Z did work for you. So, now you can focus your next path on something that has Z in it. You choices will be a bit more narrow this time. That is a good thing. At least, I think so!
Anyway, I am doing what I do so well....use 10,000 words where 75 would suffice.6 -
ExistingFish wrote: »workinonit1956 wrote: »I love regular Pepsi—the one made with real sugar. However, I only have one occasionally. I’ve mostly switched to Spindrift Sparkling Waters when I want a soda. The Raspberry Lime is my favorite.
OMG that is the one! The one I hated so bad. I have a box with one missing cluttering up my pantry. Maybe I'll give it a second try based on your endorsement. I love the Lemon.
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I enjoy fruit flavored sparkling water. There's no sugar or artificial sweeteners in them (not that I'm against). I also drink the Stevia Coke (green bottle). It's sweetened with a 50/50 blend of sugar and Stevia, if Asparatame makes you paranoid.1
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@LiftHeavyThings27105 I love your story because it’s almost exactly what my husband would say. Everything from the “work in IT but not an IT Guy” part...to the “use 10k words for a 75 word story” part is exactly like him too. The only difference is that my husband stopped drinking massive amounts of Diet Coke. He felt that all the caffeine wasn’t good for him, so he switched to water and low calorie juice drinks.
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