Who eats/drinks "diet" stuff?

2»

Replies

  • Speakeasy76
    Speakeasy76 Posts: 961 Member
    I drink diet soda a couple of times per week, and use sugar free Torani syrup in my coffee. Other than that, I typically don't be sugar-free stuff with fake sugar. I will read labels for added sugar, though,and try to choose items with less added sugar.

    I do buy fat free Greek yogurt for my smoothies, 2% cottage cheese and reduced fat cheeses (NEVER fat free-gross) which are still pretty fatty. We buy 1% milk, as that's something we always just have done (although I'm not a big cow milk drinker). I will say I have noticed that I do seem to get hungrier more quickly after my morning smoothies when I switched from 2% to fat free, even though I always add healthy fat to it in the form of nuts or seeds.
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    I drink diet soda and I'll sometimes have "miracle noodles," but that's about it.
  • eater_78
    eater_78 Posts: 13 Member
    I'd rather go for low fat than sugar free if I was to choose. Weirdly I can't stand the flavour of most artificial sweeteners in food but I don't mind them in drinks.
  • riffraff2112
    riffraff2112 Posts: 1,756 Member
    I don't drink a lot of pop because I find them to be empty calories, but if I am going to have some when I am eating fast food, I don't mind diet coke if its from a fountain. I don't like the taste of diet drinks in cans or bottles, it just seems to have a weird taste to me.
    About the only thing I seek to be 'low cal or diet' is salad dressing. Not even sure why, I suppose if I am going to eat a salad...i try to shave as many calories as possible. Just a habit I formed years ago that I haven't shaken.
  • 33gail33
    33gail33 Posts: 1,155 Member
    I drink diet coke, and use unsweetened almond milk, so I guess that is diet food.
    I'd like to reduce my fat because right now it is up there at 50% of my daily calories, which seems so wrong and I'm not used to it. But I don't eat dairy or red meat so all my fat basically comes from eggs, fish, olive oil, almonds, avocados, and chia seeds and you can't really get low fat in those.
    I just had a consult with my doctor because it looks weird to me, but she says it's fine so idk. Hopefully I don't drop dead of a heart attack. :smile:
  • 33gail33
    33gail33 Posts: 1,155 Member
    wunderkindking wrote: »
    Honestly, I feel like there's some 'virtue about food' signaling going on in a weird way, here.

    We all decide what's 'worth' our allotted calories. It's all still just food. Reduced fat and sugar free aren't 'fake' or 'bad' any more than sugar and fat are. Don't be afraid of fat and sugar. DO find ways to fit what you love in your day as painlessly as possible and if low fat mayo helps you do that, awesome. If the full fat mayo IS that, also awesome.

    Right. And a muscular man who doesn't appear to be trying to lose weight will have a lot more calories to play with for full fat ice cream and full sugar dessert - than some of us who are trying to lose on 1400 calories a day.
    Nothing wrong with either one.
  • wunderkindking
    wunderkindking Posts: 1,615 Member
    33gail33 wrote: »
    wunderkindking wrote: »
    Honestly, I feel like there's some 'virtue about food' signaling going on in a weird way, here.

    We all decide what's 'worth' our allotted calories. It's all still just food. Reduced fat and sugar free aren't 'fake' or 'bad' any more than sugar and fat are. Don't be afraid of fat and sugar. DO find ways to fit what you love in your day as painlessly as possible and if low fat mayo helps you do that, awesome. If the full fat mayo IS that, also awesome.

    Right. And a muscular man who doesn't appear to be trying to lose weight will have a lot more calories to play with for full fat ice cream and full sugar dessert - than some of us who are trying to lose on 1400 calories a day.
    Nothing wrong with either one.

    Yep.

    Though loosely on topic the only avocado I could get this week was a flordia one.

    I noticed the sticker when I got home.

    Someone, somewhere, has trademarked these things as 'slimcado'.

    THAT leaves me a little outraged though don't ask me why. It's not the best thing ever but good enough to be counted as avocado and it IS lower calorie and fat than hass avocado but also. Really? REALLY?
  • pancakerunner
    pancakerunner Posts: 6,137 Member
    i had a conversation with a lady today who had a great way of putting it. She said she eats sugar when she CHOOSES to eat sugar with products that are MEANT to have sugar (i.e. chocolate, ice cream, etc). she avoids foods that have sugar added as a filler (dips, sauces, etc.)
  • AshHeartsJesus
    AshHeartsJesus Posts: 460 Member
    Interesting to see everyone's choices 😎
    I don't drink soda just true lemon,but the other flavors
    I don't drink milk I use almond milk in my coffee and to bake with for me our kiddos get organic whole milk, BUT they don't drink it we use it in baked goods anything I cook for them or the occasional cereal
    I use stevia, when I bake for the kids I use raw cane sugar that isn't bleached I am just not comfy with feeding them an artificial sweetner even if it isn't aspartame
    I eat low fat cheese 98 percent of the time kiddos eat normal
    I make a lot of stuff with egg whites
    96/4 ground beef
    Chicken breast mainly
    I do eat full fat and sugary things but I am choosy about it and it is not my every day

    LORD JESUS guide 💟

Categories