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This is going to sound reaaaally gross, but try cutting it with water. Eventually it'll be so nasty that you won't even want it anymore. And watch out for the caffine headaches, maybe you can switch to coffee? Or... a patch. Diet Coke is a HARD addiction to break! Good luck, and let me know what works- I'm trying to get boy to stop drinking it! It rots your teeth. You know its bad news when your car dealership tells you to pour it on your car battery connectors to errode the acid.
I can't relate, but my FI was addicted to Pepsi (6 cans a day) when I met him. I slowly have gotten him to take a water bottle to work and only have 1 soda a day tops. What helped him make the transition was the lesser evil of vitamin water. Don't worry about sugar, artificial sweeteners are so much worse for you for soooo many reasons. You could try a natural, agave sweetened soda when you just need a fix.
hold up...DIET COKE MAKES YOU GAIN WEIGHT?! But it has no calories or sugar!!! this is devastating news to me...
but, i know someone who dropped the habit for getting pregnant by replacing it with mineral water so at least the bubbles were still there. i personally hate mineral water though
OMG i am so with you on the Diet Coke addiction. I've been trying to do the water thing with limited success but I love me some Diet Coke. And I'd like to point out that responding to this post has made me want to go to the vending machine and get a Diet Coke. Sigh. Will I ever actually have will power?
I cut down A LOT on diet soda after college. I have one can a day MAX and only one cup of coffee in the morning. The sodium from the diet soda makes you so bloated and all the chemicals just mess with your body. I just drink water instead but if you like that Vitamin Water 10 (only 10-calories) or diet iced tea you could do that too.
Don't keep it in the house. Don't carry dollar bills to buy it from the vending machine. I know it sounds a little silly, but if you don't have any cash on you then you can't buy it no matter how much you want it! I know you said you drink a ton of water, so make sure you always have a full water bottle with you. When you are craving a diet coke, drink some water instead and then see if you still really want it.
At restaurants order a water first. Once you start drinking the water you probably won't want the diet coke anymore. I don't have any good ideas for replacements because giving up soda for me was really easy. BUT I don't suggest letting yourself cheat until you completely have kicked the habit. The problem with diet soda is they make you crave more sugar (i.e. more diet soda). Once you have kicked the habit then you can let yourself cheat once in a while.
GOOD LUCK! I know giving up the caffeine is hard (I once bet my ex he couldn't give up soda, and out of spite he did. But the headaches he had in return were killer). Giving up diet soda will really help the rest of your diet because once you get those chemicals out of your body you will crave less of them in other foods too.
I used to be a huge soda addict. You could start by switching to Zevia, which is sweetened with stevia instead of artificial sweeteners. It doesn't trigger your insulin at all and it tastes great. You can get it at WHole Foods or Sunflower Market. Another thing I do is to mix a tiny bit of lemonade or juice with club soda (no caffeine, but you get the bubbles:)) I also have flavored liquid stevia that I mix with club soda. I carry it in my purse so I can order a club soda at restaurants and just put the drops in. THey come in all sorts of flavors and you can mix them together.
There's something with the faux sugar tricking your system and it makes it wonky with weight stuff. I had it explained to me but I glazed over.
Also, it's full of sodium, so you can retain water. Water is pretty much the best for you.
Though I'm also addicted to DC. I started drinking it when I was six. :p
I have a diet coke on my desk right now :)
Think I'm dependant much?
this is terrible, bees! and what's even worse is that all this talk is making my diet coke in the fridge sing to me. i'm going to chose to be in denial and pretend i never read this thread...
I was crazy addicted to it in middle school - my mom is a big Diet Coke drinker, so it was always around the house, and she loved going to McDonald's to get the big cups. She'd get me one, too, which only got me more addicted to that extra sugary version they sell at McD.
I know you say you drink a lot of water, but that really is the best substitute. Get in the habit of having only one drink at a time - and make it a water bottle. You can always add the little flavored water packets to make it more interesting.
Like someone else said, coffee and teas are good alternatives. Just choose REAL tea, not the sugary versions that Lipton or whomever sells in a bottle. Basically, nothing with corn syrup!
Words of encouragement about this, though: cutting out Diet Coke was what got me started eating healthy. I was about 50 lbs overweight when I was 13, and I was miserable in gym class, in horseback riding, in basketball, in life in general. Diet Coke was the first thing I cut out, to see if I could do it. I lost 15 lbs just from the Diet Coke. Over the next year, I made other changes, like cutting out sweets, etc, but those first 15 were just from the Diet Coke (I never drank regular soda) and were what motivated me to keep losing more weight. I haven't had a sip of it yet, the only time I've had soda was in Long Island Iced Teas. I'm never even tempted anymore, it just grosses me out now.
Yes, diet products make you gain weight. Low-cal sweeteners change your metabolic limit and your brain chemistry. The sweet taste of it insitgates an insulin spike that blocks your ability to burn fat. From an article at emaxhealth.com:
"The sweet flavor elicits the release of insulin from the pancreas to enhance the uptake of sugar by the cells so that it doesn't linger in the bloodstream. Once insulin is released it inhibits your fat burning hormone called HSL (hormone sensitive lipase). This hormone is responsible for releasing fat into the bloodstream to be utilized as fuel. If inhibited, your body is unable to burn fat and will then begin utilizing amino acids (from muscle) and carbohydrates as fuel. This will leave you feeling tired, grumpy, and sloth-like toward the end of the day. Not to mention, you will become abnormally hungry. Those with large amounts of HSL burn fat all day and look thin and slim. Those who inhibit it by eating or drinking the wrong substances grow fat throughout their adult years."
Further, aspartame has been linked to Multiple Sclerosis and a whole gamut of MS-like symptoms such as stomach spasms, bodily pain, inability to walk, etc. Aspartame is an excitotoxin strikingly similar to the excitoxins that are found at the site of lesions around the spinal cord in MS.
Low cal sweeteners are just bad news, this info should flat out scare you out of your addiction!
i had a similar situation to lilyfaith in high school with regular dr. pepper....but i replaced it with diet coke! lost 15 lbs from kicking the dr. pepper habit, and developed healthier eating habits (which i'm kind of addicted to now), but i've never had any desire to get rid of diet coke! it just never even occured to me!
Try adding lemon or lime slices to your water bottle. I did this and it helped to "trick" me into thinking I was having something a little bit more fancy than just plain ol water :)
I was SUPER addicted to PEPSI and get this, i am a Nutrtionist. I know, I know......
But I just substituted with water. You can cheat evry now and then but that's all!
Try not to keep soda in your house, if you dont have it, you wont drink it.
If you need another reason to quit drinking soda, just think about the calcium being leached from your bones (this goes for all soda because they all contain phosphorus):
http://www.naturalnews.com/004416_soft_drinks_calcium_food.html
cherry coke zero is my vice =]
Try to cut back slowly--use small cans instead of big cans. I drink maybe, 2-3 sodas a week. I used to be a 2x/day girl but I forced myself to switch to waters and teas. No weight magically fell off, but I feel fine--the carbonation does a number on my stomach and GI tract. It makes me feel puffy and made me gassy or belchy and I just hated it. I still drink soda just minimally.
I really love drinking Coke, too. But you can definitely stop drinking it as often as you do.
Think of it this way: as with anything sweet, your body starts to crave it. It's almost like an auto-pilot thing. All you gotta do is stop drinking it for a while, your body will stop craving it. The hard part is just getting through that first week :)
I have a diet soda about four times a week with dinner. I got myself down to that few a week by getting through the day with just water, and then rewarding myself at night. And at dinner, I go to bed in a few hours away, so there's no time for me to have another anyway.
But seirously, you just have to make yourself go down to one a day, and after a while, you won't even want it more than that.
What I wanna know is how so many people can like, much less be addicted to any diet soda!! LOL. I have a thing for Coke, but if you put a diet one in front of me -bleck - I'll just take water.
Do you have to learn to love it, or did you really like it to begin with???? I really am curious about this!
@honeybun - Oh, man. People get really hardcore about their diet soda. I personally like regular Coke as well, but Diet Coke is seriously my crack.
I drank Diet Pepsi when I was little because that's what my mom drank. So I have been drinking it ever since. In the last year I switched to Pepsi Max and now that's all I drink. I get major migraines when I don't get any caffiene, but I really want to kick the habit, so I think I will start with iced tea and water next week. Maybe it will help me shed some pounds before the wedding! But I have a Pepsi Max on the desk in fron of me right now! So I'm giving myself the weekend....
My name is Fish and I'm a Diet Coke Addict!
While it may make you retain water for other reasons, it is not because of the sodium content of Diet Coke . . . it only has 40mg of sodium per 12 ounces.
If lovin' Diet Coke is wrong, I don't wanna be right! :P
@kittyachi: You drink both?!?!?!? How can you take a sip of a sweet, cold, refreshing regular coke and then take a drink of a diet coke, with that horrible aftertaste, and still like it??? 
Every once in a while at restaurants, they will bring me a diet instead of regular coke, and my reaction after taking the first drink is priceless, I'm sure. According to the looks of whoever's face that I'm with at the time hehe.
@honeybun: I started drinking diet soda as a kid. So when I tried regular soda, it tasted so thick and syrupy to me. I can't stand it.
@ honeybun; your right. Well for me anyway. I chose to drop regular soda and pick up diet when I started having blood sugar issues. At first i could only drink Diet Dr. Pepper. But then I started having Diet Coke; & now I don't even notice the difference between it and regular soda. I think it's just something your body gets use to. I feel so much better now that I don't drink regular soda anymore & I only have Diet if i'm eating fast food and I get a value meal. Even then. I drink very minimal soda. Like stated above; Now regular soda just tastes nasty to me. It's too think and syrupy!! It was a hard transition @ first but now I don't even miss it!
I have seriously cut back on my Diet Coke habit and I am now at 1 a day and hoping to stop completley soon - it is HORRIBLE for you (esp. the aspertame). I also now read ALL drink labels to see if it has aspertame and to my surprise - MOST drinks do!
"Aspartame accounts for over 75 percent of the adverse reactions to food additives reported to the FDA. Many of these reactions are very serious including seizures and death. A few of the 90 different documented systems llisted in the report as being caused by aspertame include: Headaches/migranes, dizziness, seizures, nausea, numbness, muscle spasms, weight gain, rashes, depression, fatigue, irritability, tachycardia, vision problems, hearing loss, heart palpatations, breathing difficulties, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, loss of taste, tinnitus, vertigo, memory loss, and joint pain."
go to www.mercola.com/article/aspartame/dangers.htm for more information
Serious stuff!!!
My diet soft drink addiction is so bad that I've seriously considered buying caffeine pills so that I can quit without the headaches... And the only way I can drink water is if it's got one of those Crystal Light packets in it...
Here's hoping we can beat the addiction!
Does anyone know whether Hansen's diet soda is good/safe to drink? It doesn't have aspartame, but I think it's made with splenda...
@honeybun, i HATE the taste of regular coke. Thick, syrupy, sweet. Not refreshing! I always have hated it. But I've ALWAYS liked diet coke...weird, huh? First it was diet coke with lime (so refreshing!) then it was the vanilla and cherry flavors....mmm, i just like the flavor of diet coke versus coke. It tastes SO diferent.
Soda's like anything--a little is good for you. A lot can have its tolls over time.
One thing that helps me get my "fix" is drinking carbonated spring water. It was weird at first, but i spent a week in Europe and It's all i had. I got used to it, and now I buy the mandarin orange essence flavored kind from TJ's and I LOVE it. It's SO SO good. I get my water PLUS my bubbly fix.
I find Diet Coke gross
Coke Zero on the other hand...now that's the good stuff right thurrrrr.
@honeybun - it's funny, I grew up always having Diet, my mom didn't want regular in the house, so regular always tasted terrible to me. Once I stopped having Diet, that started tasting terrible to me if I accidentally had a sip as well. So I think really, I don't like any pop, I just got addicted to Diet Coke.
it's hard - extremely hard - but SOOOO worth it! seriously - someone else already mentioned the NASTY-TAME that's in it (aspartame) and it's no joke - that stuff truly is absolute POISON!!!!!!!!!! google it and you'll find TONS of info.
I used to be addicted to diet dr. pepper. LOVED the stuff - seriously addicted. I gave it and all other diet pops up over 3 years ago and I will admit i STILL crave the stuff - even after THREE YEARS! but my health is more important than a few sips of that drink. it's not even willpower - it's KNOWLEDGE. learn WHY diet coke is bad for you and you'll never want to drink it again.
I grew up with Diet soda as well but after reading how terrible it is for you, I stopped. Regular soda tastes like cough syrup to me now.
I'm a big fan of club soda or seltzer (whatever you wanna call it) - sometimes I put slices of lime, lemon or I'll sprinkle some Crystal lite into it. I know it sounds gross - but don't knock it till you try it. ;)
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So I'm trying to lose about 30-50 pounds for my wedding, and I've been surfing the web trying to look for tips. I've been reading articles about diet soda and how it's bad for you and a lot of people report that when they quit the diet soda addiction they drop weight.
Bees, I am hooked on Diet Coke! It's not as bad as it was in graduate school, but I still drink several a day. Has anyone else out there quit diet soda with good results? Is there something that you used as a substitute? I already drink a TON of water, so I'm good there, but if I'm going to quit outright, I'm going to need a crutch of some sort ...