Coke Addiction . . .

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Drinking pop is just not good for you. A natural path once told me Diet pop was the worst! I also went to a class on improving your metabolism and was told there Diet Pop is poison and both of these people told me you will not be able to lose weight while diet pop is still in your diet. Try water with lemon juice or make some cold green tea and sweeten with stevia or agave necter. Just get off the coke roller coaster!

Interesting. I've been losing weight and I drink it every day. To the OP, it's a personal decision. Do your own research on aspartame. I have and at this time, it being my one vice, I have not given it up. I have in the past and lost no weight as a result and didn't notice a difference in my eating (more/less hunger). I don't think it's the healthiest thing for me to drink but it's a choice I make at this time. Like you, I control the amount and that's my compromise.

It is completely possible to lose weight while drinking diet pop. The key, like anything else in life, seems to be moderation. I love Pepsi Max. No calories, caffeine AND ginseng. I only have one now about once a week, where before I chugged them all the time. what I have noticed personally is that if I drink any diet pop while eating a meal (standard protocol for when I dine out or at a BBQ), I will drink 4 diet pops and actually feel like eating more than if I just drink unsweet Tea or water.

As a guilty pleasure, it is what it is. But Diet Pop has no value physiologically speaking, other than maybe the pick me up of the caffeine. So try to limit your self to just one a day and make sure you stay hydrated.

Data presented recently at the American Diabetes Association's (ADA) Scientific Sessions suggest that diet drinks may actually contribute to weight gain and that the artificial sweeteners in them could potentially contribute Type 2 diabetes.

Companies have spent billions of dollars convincing all of us that diet soda is the healthier, lighter choice, that all we have to lose is the calories, ergo the weight. And since so many of us are struggling with weight gain, who can blame us if diet soda seems like a dream come true? But in my experience, it’s actually a wolf in sheep’s clothing, fooling women into thinking they are doing something good for their bodies when they are actually sabotaging their own best efforts.

Diet soda may not have the sugar or calories of regular soda, but it’s chock-full of other health-draining chemicals, like caffeine, artificial sweeteners, sodium and phosphoric acid.

I encourage you to resist it as your default beverage, especially if you are trying to lose weight. Different studies have been flying around on this subject, but a majority show that diet soda may actually set you up to gain even more weight.

A regular 12-ounce soda contains the equivalent of nine teaspoons of sugar, usually in the form of high fructose corn syrup. Imagine drinking a 12-ounce glass of iced tea with nine teaspoons of sugar stirred into it, or eating nine teaspoons of sugar, one after another? That’s essentially what people do when they drink a sugared soda. It is liquid candy, ruthlessly advertised and manufactured to give our jaded taste buds an even sweeter sensation.

No expert is presuming that the diet sodas themselves are making people gain weight. But there does seem to be some connection, and what is being further explored is the idea that by offering our tastes buds something that seems sweet, and seems to signal other parts of our bodies that glucose sugars are on the way, we set ourselves up for cravings, to which we eventually and often unknowingly, give in. In other words, consuming artificial sweeteners that seem real just might be setting us up to eat more later on.

Try to make healthier choices. Start your day with a small glass of 100% fruit juice. Drink skim milk with meals. Sip water throughout the day. For variety, try sparkling water or add a squirt of lemon or cranberry juice to your water. Save diet soda for an occasional treat.

There is no high fructose corn syrup in diet mt dew. (just checked the label b/c I knew it sounded odd) I believe that's typically used to sweeten the non-diet sodas.

Actually there is high fructose corn syrup in diet mt dew. It is made with a blend of sucralose, aspartame, and acesulfame potassium as sweeteners. Sucralose is one of the many other names for high fructose corn syrup.

just fyi...there is such a thing as 'aspartame poisoning'...I know I'm addicted to diet pop...I allow myself one a day and am working on getting it down to a 'small sized' pop. I'm going to ask my doctor to test me for the poisoning. Don't want to scare anyone...but the stuff is awful. I hope to give it up.

I'm pretty sure you'd have to drink about 3 times your body weight in pure aspartame to become poisoned. In lab rats they were given like 1000X normal consumption or something when they became "poisoned".

SODIUM! Best reason to give up soda all together!

Before I started this current diet, I was big on coke zero. Zero calories, no sugar, no fat, no carbs, 40mg sodium in a 12oz can. I figured it was ok. Which its not the worse thing to drink, but I realized a big part of my weight problem is, I refuse to drink water. I couldn't stand water. But I forced myself to drink it, I started drinking 1 16oz bottle a day, I moved up to 2 the next week. Now I am drinking 60-90oz's of water a day. It's all I crave drink wise, once in awhile I'll get a craving for a coke zero. I just had one, and I have a full case of them for a just in case I feel the urge. This is the 2nd can missing from a case that has been sitting there for 2 months. I took 2 sips and I can't drink anymore of it.

Basically for me I winged myself off them because for me having them reminded me of my weight issues and so I decided to give it up.

There is no high fructose corn syrup in diet mt dew. (just checked the label b/c I knew it sounded odd) I believe that's typically used to sweeten the non-diet sodas.

Actually there is high fructose corn syrup in diet mt dew. It is made with a blend of sucralose, aspartame, and acesulfame potassium as sweeteners. Sucralose is one of the many other names for high fructose corn syrup.

No actually, sucralose is Splenda.

Splenda contains bulking agents. All artificial sweeteners use bulking agents made of sugar, dextrose, sucrose, and maltodextrin. (Maltodextrin is corn syrup solids composed primarily from fructose and glucose in a starch form.) All the more reason NOT to drink diet soda. It is a personal choice what we eat or drink but, as educated consumers I would think people would want to stop drinking soda knowing it it just a bottle of chemicals.

Diet soda's especially the caffeinated ones ages you immensely. If that's all you drink, you'll look 10years older than you are. I've seen the difference of changing diet soda to water. It doesn't just age you outside but inside too. Although it has caffeine for energy, after a while your body just asks for it so it can function normally.
Start by flavouring your water there are so many alternatives now. I like Cordial, I add less amount than advised and it gives just a tang of flavour.

Used to drink a 2l bottle of diet dr pepper a day but now I don't drink any! Cutting out Fake sugar helps with weight loss bc it tricks your brain in thinking it's intaking sugar and when it's not u get calorie hungry. To get me started with quitting sodas I would make myself frappacinos and have now moved onto just drinking espresso and coffee

I was drinking 4-6 20 oz Coke zeros during the work day alone - I gave it up cold turkey September 1 (mainly for financial reasons) and have felt SO much better since I gave it up! I still drink my coffee, water and crystal light and yes i use artificial sweeteners in my coffee but I think cutting out the soda (which I was drinking WAY too much of) I've been able to break through my weight loss plateau. Plus I've saved a ton of money!

Although it may not work for everyone, based on my experience with a Coke addiction, that for me it was best to quit cold turkey.

Once I quit I would have bad caffeine withdrawal for a day or two (migraines all day), but was fine after that... Until I went back to soda and got hooked immediately. The cycle just kept repeating itself. I feel it is a lot harder to try and drink it responsibly than it is to just not drink it at all.

Now I don't drink it at all (going on about 3-4 wks). I get a craving every once in a while, but I just have to do my best and ignore it.

Good Luck!!

This is me. I am badly addicted to diet pepsi. I quit and had horrible headaches that lasted for four days. Finally, they subsided, but I still really wanted to drink the stuff. I decided to try to drink it in moderation. HA, I am evidently not a moderation person. I have to try to quit again. I am just working on building up the will power.

Man, I love me some Diet Coke. But I'm not a big soda drinker, so I'll have maybe 1-2 a week and that's plenty for me. I used to drink a ton of soda as a kid, but it's almost like I "outgrew" it. Still...fountain Diet Coke. There is nothing like it.

There should be a group for this. I've already conquered it, but a group here is exactly what I would have wanted it. I'd suggest starting one!