diet drinks

I used to drink the equivalent of a 2 liter of diet sunkist per day and had a personal trainer tell me to cut out soda all together. Needless to say, that didn't work but I've at least tried to cut down so now I've tried to make it a habit of not having more than 3 cans per day.

I've actually given them up entirely. There's so much junk in them and stuff, plus, now that I'm not drinking diet coke or pop in general, I feel so much more better. So long as you cut down as much as you feel comfortable with, then that's great! You'll feel a difference.

Up until mid-January this year I drank 2 litres of 7up free every day. I switched to water now and I feel so much better. My tummy is less bloated and my skin is better.

I can't answer your question on how much is okay to drink a day, sorry.

Just wanted to say if I could give it up, anyone can. I was so addicted.

I am an avid diet coke drinker and for years it was 70% of all I drank. I am lucky in the way that it does not affect my weight loss progress nor does it trigger cravings. But as one person mentioned it DOES wear down the enamel on your teeth (its very acidic) and the fact that water is good for the skin made me make some changes. I still drink diet coke but when I am working (work nights in the ER) I only drink water/crystal light. I drink 2-3 cans still a day though (it wasnt unheard of for me to drink 6-8 a day! )

Drink as much as you want if you don't have a concern with the artificial sweeteners. Sure it's not the best thing in the world for you to drink but it has not been proven to affect weight loss in anyway. It can hurt the enamel on your teeth so drink it with a straw!

The less, the better

Hi all
I used to drink about a litre of diet coke a day and had done for about 25 years! but a recent study indicated a high level of stroke and heart attacks for people who drank a lot of diet drinks, here's a link

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46431225/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition/t/daily-diet-soda-tied-heart-attack-stroke/#.T1DFlIc2-So

don't mean to frighten anyone but I've really cut down since!

I usually get a drink at lunch, it's either diet oasis or diet coke..!
Today I decided to opt for water !

Get rid of soda all together, and you'll feel better, and it will help with weight loss.

So - those of you who don't drink soda, what do you drink? I get tired of water all the time. I need something with flavor...

You could flavor your water. I'm a Mio addict. You can add as little or as much flavor as you like. Kool-Aid, Crystal Light, and several tea companies (e.g. Arizona, Lipton) also have low-calorie, sugar free flavor options.

So my issue is this... I would LOVE to omit soda all together. I know it's not good for me and I would like to be healthier. I do not like to add powders to may water - I don't like it - I actually enjoy drinking water but I get tired of it. I'm not crazy about tea unless it has sweetener in it, which brings me back to the chemicals that I have been trying to omit. I tried giving up soda a couple years ago. Everyone kept saying that the headaches and tired feeling would go away after 3 (or so) weeks. Well - they didn't. I went 3 months and still no improvement. I was miserable. Clearly something with that kind of hold over my system can't be good for me, but I don't want to live like that.

Does anyone have any good methods of cutting out soda?

I don't think anyone has mentioned yet that the artificial sweeteners in the diet drinks are extremely costly for the liver to break down. The more time that your liver spends processing these complex compounds that the body cannot use, the LESS time/space/resources that your liver has to spend burning sugars, fats, toxins.

I don't know how much time/energy the liver has to waste breaking down artificial sweeteners, but as a rule it is generally best not to make your liver work harder than necessary.

and yes, acid on your teeth is bad. it is not the bacteria, per se, that cause decay, but the acid they secrete as they digest the sugars on your teeth. in the case of diet drinks you are not pouring sugar all over your teeth for the bacteria to eat and secrete acid - you are skipping the middle man by pouring acid all over your teeth, which softens the enamel, which wears away.

If you can shop at a walmart, they have clear america. It's a flavored carbonated water. It's on par with soda for cost, but has no calories or sodium (what I was really looking for). It's all fruit flavored, but they break up the same old stick if you're drinking water all the time.

It's got to be the caffeine that you're addicted to right? It can't be the taste of the diet soda, those things are awful. You can get a cheap bottle of 200mg caffeine pills for about $5. Get a pill cutter, take half a pill every four hours upon waking and the last one no later than 6 hours before bed time. I've cut all soda and coffee out of my diet this way.