Addicted to Diet Coke?Anyone?

[Monza_dh]

what helped me when i dumped my Coke habit, red 12oz cans, was drinking soda water for the carbonation effect I was getting from the Coke. I still drink coffee but only 2 a day, espresso no sugar, but D.Coke and all the shtt they put in it is another story.

stay with it. you will feel so much better not consuming that shtt and wasting your money.
I have three kids an my 6 and 13 yr old kids have never drank soft drinks. They dont like them and we do not keep any in the house. I hope they can las as long as they can without it.

[Joeaksa]

Good call!

I still drink carbonated water most of the time. Buy it in the market called "club soda" for .99 a two liter bottle. No sugar kick but not far from a soda either and much better for you.

Joe A

[mjohnson]

Originally Posted by Joeaksa

Good call!

I still drink carbonated water most of the time. Buy it in the market called "club soda" for .99 a two liter bottle. No sugar kick but not far from a soda either and much better for you.

Joe A

Amen to that. We're going to install a soda fountain at home pretty soon.

No sugar, easy to spruce up with real juices (see the hippie section of the store), if you're looking for an adult non-boozy drink just add some Peychauds or Angustura bitters, I hear that whisky seems to go OK too (if you're into that).

It turns out that the wife doesn't realize it's pretty much a kegerator.

(btw Diet sodas are evil - save the Coke for real Mexican sugar-stuff with your mixer of choice)

[Joeaksa]

One thing that we used to drink all the time in Germany especially during the summer was club soda half and half with apple juice. Very refreshing and tasty as well.

[mjohnson]

Club soda and any of the traditional bitters/amaros is awesome. Add a little for flavor and ~0 EtOH or an ounce or two in a pint glass for a nice grown up fizzy drink. Fernet is great. Campari is obvious of course.

[Jeff Alton]

I drink a couple of cans a day, but then I don't drink coffee, just one cup of tea each morning..... started drinking it when I was fat, 25 years ago, and now it is just habit. Drink lots of water too. I need something that is better for me than the DC, yet tastes good....


Cheers

[mjohnson]

Strangely, in the theme of non-sugar sodas, Diet Tonic water seems to be made with Saccharine. I guess it doesn't cause cancer anymore.

Thing is, normal tonic water is _SO_ sweet that most G&T's are candy. Diet version is a better balance of bitterness with sweet. We drink more than a few "Virgin Skinny G&T's" -- ice, diet tonic and a little muddled lime. I'd say it's better than most boozy versions you'll get out of the gun.

[Geronimo '74]

Originally Posted by rattlsnak

My wife says its fine to drink up to 40 cans a day of Coke...

Seriously, she was joking, right? Surely she must know that this can't be good for you.
You can also smoke 9 packs of cigarettes a day... but even the tobacco industry had to admit that their product is not really healthy...

[nynor]

Originally Posted by t951

My wife is truly addicted to it. No joke.

When I did an experiment and cut her off for one week she had actual withdrawal symptoms. (headaches, etc).

We thought it may be a caffeine withdrawal so she had coffee, tea.....all to no effect.

After the 6th day or so she was all normal again. On the 7th day, she habitually cracked open a can at work. She said it was soooo good. And now we are back to her diet coke habit.

Seriously, i think the aspartame is addictive. It can't be good.

its the synthetic caffeine. seriously. anything with caffeine listed as an ingredient is synthetic. i don't why or how, i'm not a chemist, but its different.

[Schumi]

This is who I think of every time I see a diet coke can..

[Teutonics]

Study: Soda Linked to Pancreatic Cancer

"People Who Drink as Few as Two Soft Drinks a Week Face Nearly Twice the Risk of Developing Deadly Cancer, Study Finds"



Link to CBS News article

And I thought I was doing okay with one a day!

[Schumi]

I'm glad I stay away from that stuff. I'll stick with my 6-8 beers a day

[TSNAPCRACKLEPOP]

also, besides mexican coke, the kosher version for jewish holidays has real sugar also.. look for the mark o the package.

not just cancer....BREAST CANCER!!!

[juan ruiz]

I like to report that as of today I am Coke FREE, Diet Coke that its, today marks day number 10, first time in 10 years that I have stop drinking this poisoning beverage, this came due to the fact that the wife put me on this strict diet plan of 500 calories a day and so far I have gone down from 210 to 200 in ten days, I had MASSIVE headaches for days ! and I mean Massive but I'm trying to loose this weight to show my kids that the mind is a powerful thing.

I have never drink so much water in my life I still don't like it but I'm already committed to this deal.

[exitwound]

500 seems too thin. How can you get the daily nutrients you need in quantity only 500?

[Gogar]

Congrats, Juan! You'll feel like crap for a while, but when that goes away you'll really be surprised at how good you can feel.

[flipper35]

What about beverages like Diet Rite? Splenda, no caffeine, no sodium.

[berettafan]

nice to pee clear again isn't it Juan!

[The Gaijin]

"..."A better alternative to Aspartame is Stevia Sweetner, which comes from leaf and is 100% natural. It can be found at eHealthSupplies.com or Wisdom Natural Brands.."

Glad you are getting off the diet cokes. How did something you went to a "soda fountain" with you best girl on a Saturday night (75 years ago) - turn into part of our modern daily diet??


Anyway - regarding the quote above, any artificial sweetener can have side effects and should be avoided.

Apparently, artificially sweet foods can cause the body to expect a calorie rush that never actually happens - and this "crying wolf" can trigger adverse reactions.

[juan ruiz]

I have come to the conclusion that my body was addicted to the caffeine, GEE what a surprise!!