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I gave up pop about a year ago... I found the easiest way to fight the cravings is to drink lemonaide and juice whenever you wanted a pop. Minute Maid Lite only had 5 calories so it is a great substitute. I also had to have my caffine so I switched to coffee, but that has a lot of calories as well so I started drinking tea. It has no calories and comes in a variety of flavors. If you don't really like the tasts a teasoppn of sugar helps and that teaspoon only adds up to a few calories.

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8 oz. of black coffee only has 2 calories in it. It's when you start adding cream and sugar that it starts to add up.

2 months ago, I cold-turkied off anything with aspertame in it, including diet pop, which I have been drinking for 40+ years, averaging about 1 liter a day. Anyone try to tell you that aspertame and carbonated water are not addictive substances has obviously never tried getting off of it (and if I had done enough research beforehand, I would have been a lot better prepared for the withdrawal symptoms!). I wish I could tell you that you won't have to go through a withdrawal process to get over drinking Coke.......but I try to be as honest as possible at all times. It's going to take awhile for your body to rid itself of the cravings but I promise you, the effort WILL be worth it!

Case in point about aspertame ~ last Saturday, I tried a scoop of Braums Carb Watch vanilla ice cream and within the hour, I felt like I had come down with a bad case of the creeping crud..............severe headache, nausea, aching joints, diahrrea...........euuugghhhh It took about 24 hours for it to all go away and just reinforced my belief that at least for me, aspertame, by whatever trade name they call it, is indeed "sweet poison".

try xylotil sweetener for your coffee or for sweetening drinks like tea, lemonade etc. It is an all natural sugar occurring from birch bark. It tastes great, has fewer calories than table sugar, but also the way those calories are processed in your body some of them don't "count" (they will still show up on your food diary, but about 40% of the calories won't be metabolised, they will be excreted)

The best thing about Xylitol is that it not promote tooth decay, and it actually helps to FIGHT tooth decay....there is no other sugar substitute out there that can claim that (I am a registered dental hygienist, so this is not just an opinion, but evidence based research supports this)

Aspartame (nutrasweet) is a very nasty substance overall, completely unnatural and not meant to be building up inside our bodies. Carbonated beverages taste so great, but the carbonation leaches calcium from your blood stream & bones (which we women need desperately), leads to tooth decay (yes, even sugar free), and also carbonated beverages are suspect in contributing to esophageal cancer.

So....back to plain old water, coffee, tea, the occasional juice.....get's boring doesn't it???

I gave soda up cold turkey 9 months ago. I drink mostly water but the lemon aid really cuts those cravings out. I perfer crystal light. However; I limit that as well. After two months your cravings all but disappear. I wish you luck coke is more like crack one drink thats all it takes. YOUR HOOKED

I was wondering that myself. I haven't looked at a Crystal Light label but I have to believe it's full of chemicals. I guess since it's not carbonated it's a little better than diet coke. Maybe the sweetner they use is better?

diet calorie free drinks store fat - how ironic. there's hidden crap (pardon my french) in everything.