Bye Diet Coke, I'm going to miss you
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spyrosmom
Cathlete
You can do it, Nan!I did it too this year. I only drink unsweetened tea during the day and naturally sweetened Sobe Water when I workout. I have found that going off the diet sodas has made me MUCH less moody for some reason. My sweet cravings have gone down too. It's tough, buy you definitely can do it!! Before long you won't even miss them. Instead you'll think, "WHY did I used to drink that brown syrupy stuff filled with chemicals??!"
MOODY?!??! WHO YOU CALLING MOODY??!?!?
I'm NOT moody!!! You've been talking to my hubby, huh? I'm just a little teeny tiny moody. and just sometimes.
hmmmmm, didn't think about that.
Nan
fit_fairy
Cathlete
MOODY?!??! WHO YOU CALLING MOODY??!?!?
You've been talking to my hubby, huh? I'm just a little teeny tiny moody. and just sometimes.
hmmmmm, didn't think about that.
Nan
ROTFLMAO!!!!
BeethovenRocks
Cathlete
Gave up diet coke for Lent and I don't think a day has gone by since Ash Wednesday when I don't think about it with longing, weak woman that I am!! 'In my head' I understand the merits healthwise of being able to abstain from it, even past next weekend. I too have tried a more appropriate substitute like sparkling water but I miss the taste especially if I'm having a savoury meal like pizza. Heaven help me...literally
josiespcah6ojsh
Cathlete
gave it up then it came back. my mom is a great influence on me for drinking more.she keeps it in her house and usually has it when i eat out with her. what got me to stop before was doing so much cardio than now.
laura
laura
Fidget Queen
Cathlete
Have you ever heard of that urban legend experiment where when a kid loses their tooth they put it in a dish of soda and the tooth dissolves? Well I tried that when my kids lost their teeth and it literally dissolved. Not completely but, . .I bet if we left it in the dish long enough it would have. I can't even imagine what that stuff does to my insides.
I did that experiment when I was in junior high! You can't imagine how difficult it was to find adult teeth! Anyway, I did adult teeth soaked in regular coke, diet coke, other sodas and their diet counterparts. It was ugly. In my particular, and highly scientific!, study, the diet coke was the most acidic, I guess, and caused the most damage. Keep in mind that these things were only soaked for about 6 weeks, and the teeth in the diet coke were about half gone. I have no idea of knowing what was enamel and what wasn't, but that is when I pretty much gave up sodas. Not that I was a junkie, but I couldn't stand the idea that I was doing that to my teeth. And the one thing I did learn while researching is that you never want to brush your teeth right after drinking these things, as it softens the enamel immediately and the brushing action does even more damage.
Good luck!
cindi1
Cathlete
It's hard to give up. I tried several times and finally gave it up for good Jan 1 2009. After a few months, if you try it again, it just doesn't taste good anymore. I drink a lot of La Croix, water, unsweetened tea, and coffee (unsweetened) with skim milk. Now I don't even want the stuff.
You can do it! BUT if you slip up, just get back on the wagon. Like smoking - don't quit quitting - eventually it will stick.
You can do it! BUT if you slip up, just get back on the wagon. Like smoking - don't quit quitting - eventually it will stick.
Amy Steppe
Cathlete
I was talking to my SIL today at our Palm Sunday brunch. I am apparently her fitness inspiration, although she inspires me just as much with all the effort and dedication she has put into in the last 6 months or so. She has given up the diet pop. I've often thought about it, and now I'm ready. Why am I drinking chemicals in a can? Anybody????? I made the switch from real pop to diet pop long long ago, and now I think I'm ready to let go *sniff*
I did buy a case of Diet Coke and a 2 liter of Diet Coke yesterday when I went grocery shopping. When this round is gone, its gone. No more canned liquid pseudo beverages. Give me strength and willpower!!!!! I did post it up on my Facebook, as well. And threatened dear SIL if I go into a caffiene shortage rage, I'm coming after her
I think I can, I think I can, I KNOW I can!!!!!!!
When your mind is made up, your body complies, right????? Let's hope so.
Nan
Cokes (Most of us call all sodas Cokes here in the South) are still a passion for me.
I am slowing down.
I am not blaming my long deceased parents who did not know better.
But cokes were always there. I drank a TON of them growing up and when I was sad, a Coke was my "drug" of choice. I don't mean that Cokes are meth or anything like that when I use "drug" in the previous sentence.
Even in hospitals when I was able to drink, I asked for a Coke.
I do not smoke, drink alcohol or have any other type of addiction (if shopping does not count).
But Cokes are so hard to kick. I am taking it one day at a time. I "relapse" now and again and the scale and my pot belly help me get in line.
I can't stand the diet version, for me it has to be loaded with High Fructose Corn Syrup. ;(
I feel your pain!