Okay, question guys. Gatorade, Propel, Soda...?

Tea! Black, green, white, rooibos, oolong, fruit and herbal ... so many choices!

Try fruit tea iced and add a little bit of stevia or truvia and you've got a great "juice" that's zero cals, carbs, and nothing but healthy goodness!

Gatorade is good for replacing electrolytes after an intense workout; say running a half marathon, but I wouldn't drink it just to drink it. It's still just carbs and sugars.

Okay so what I've been recently trying to do is cut soda out completely...so far I'm doing alright. I went from drinking probably almost a 2 liter a day to drinking Propel Zero and Gatorade and only drinking like a can of soda every other-every two days. I also drink a lot of regular unflavored water. Now my question is, is propel better for you than soda? Also, is Gatorade better for you than soda? I'm trying to drink more regular water than what I normally do, but it's just so plain. I like the flavor. Suggestions?
I've heard propel is good and heard it is bad and also heard the same about gatorade, but I know with the gatorade I lost a bit of weight last year. ...any ideas guys?
Also, anyone know anything about MIO?

I don't know about the Propel (isn't that flavored water?), but Gatorade is horribly acidic. My dentist said it's worse for your teeth than soda is.

Gatorade has almost as much sugar as soda, so I would avoid Gatorade unless you are doing long bouts of cardio (over an hour long), as it helps replenish your body of sugar, sodium and electrolytes, which you don't need if you are doing shorter workouts.

Anything is better than soda, if you're thinking in terms of possible kidney damage.

I had fought this battle for the better part of a decade, but could never seem to kick the diet soda addiction. I tried going to plain water cold turkey, fruit in the water, tea, stevia, pretty much everything. Last year I simply declared the battle lost and returned to my 6- 20 oz bottle a day habit. (terrible I know)

Then I bought one of those soda stream water carbonators.Through experimentation I found the minimum tolerable amount of syrup to add to each bottle. This seems to be working for me.... or at least making me feel better about it. Most of the syrups are sweetened with splenda which I'm not thrilled with, but I feel i am getting a satisfying soda and dropping my artificial sweetener consumption by 1/3.

I have also bought the mio bottles and found the minimum tolerable amount for those too. They make a pretty good fruit soda.

Good Luck

neither of them.... WATER all the way!

Oh, and thank you guys! I do appreciate all the advice. I'm not much of tea drinker...mostly because when I drink tea it just doesn't seem sweet enough...I'll have to try out a few different ones and hopefully I can find something.

I've been on the loose-leaf tea bandwagon for a while now - To sweeten your tea, add some natural liquid honey.

Gatorade is a dentists nightmare, and will rot your teeth faster than soda.

You should stay away from diet soda and soda as much as possible. It makes most people more hungry throughout the day.

You could try adding a Crystal Light packet to a bottle of water. I know a lot of people who can't drink just plain water and thats what they do. I think it's only 10 calories a packet. so nothing horrible.

Good luck!

Be careful drinking gatorade... I was drinking mostly that for a while and it was hurting my blood pressure badly. There is a TON of sodium in it. So if you have blood pressure issues at all gatorade is probably worse for you then soda.

I doubt it was the sodium in the Gatorade that was raising your blood pressure. The electrolytes in it are pretty balanced. More than likely it was your liver processing all of the sugar that led to the high blood pressure.

Okay so what I've been recently trying to do is cut soda out completely...so far I'm doing alright. I went from drinking probably almost a 2 liter a day to drinking Propel Zero and Gatorade and only drinking like a can of soda every other-every two days. I also drink a lot of regular unflavored water. Now my question is, is propel better for you than soda? Also, is Gatorade better for you than soda? I'm trying to drink more regular water than what I normally do, but it's just so plain. I like the flavor. Suggestions?
I've heard propel is good and heard it is bad and also heard the same about gatorade, but I know with the gatorade I lost a bit of weight last year. ...any ideas guys?
Also, anyone know anything about MIO?

No.

I drink regular brewed tea with nothing else in it. Cold brewed tea bags can just be stuffed into your water bottle and left to brew for 5 or so minutes for great iced tea. I like tea plain, but even if you need the sweet, something like this http://goo.gl/e9JYK ro this http://goo.gl/Le8et are both very sweet with no sweetening at all. Really, try it. These, especially the Celestial Seasonings, taste really sweet but have no sweetener.

The problem with Gatorade and Propel is there is really too much electrolyte in them to make them a regular beverage. You put your heart at as much risk drinking these as regular beverages than if you stayed fat, so consider that. These are ONLY for replacing fluids after a workout. They are in no way "good for you" as a regular beverage and shouldn't be used for that.

Tea! Black, green, white, rooibos, oolong, fruit and herbal ... so many choices!

Try fruit tea iced and add a little bit of stevia or truvia and you've got a great "juice" that's zero cals, carbs, and nothing but healthy goodness!

Gatorade is good for replacing electrolytes after an intense workout; say running a half marathon, but I wouldn't drink it just to drink it. It's still just carbs and sugars.

YES!!! Thanks!!! Perfect answer (imho). Sometimes after a hard workout, I'll drop a NUUN tablet in a big glass of rooibos tea. Simply delicious. One of my MFPeeps puts OJ in her green tea. I must try this - sounds so good! Best problem to have - too many choices for the teapot. I'm diet soda free since 2012 (cold turkey) and tea is helping me not miss it.

recently I found a recipe for a weight loss water and its really good. And it does seem to knock off some of my cravings and feeling hungry...


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cut up cucumbers, lemon (i put lime in mine also),and fresh mint and let set in fridge overnight. Its really pretty good. Im gonna try more this weekend adding different fruits .

If your still wanting the sweetness of soda or gatorade go get Scivation's Xtend , it has 0 cal , sugar etc.. it adds to regular and tastes great plus adda BCAAs to your diet which are always needed , check it out on Bodybuilding.com (Grape and lemon lime are excellent )