1 Week without Diet Coke! (Read 1210 times)

Its amazing how my life used to revolve around Diet Coke, that stuff is worse than cigarettes (i know this, i used to smoke 2 packs a day of camel non filters and cloves, my lungs are probably shot) .....prior to this week i used to chug gallons of that stuff all day...now my life feels so empty...oh well, i guess i'll just have to run more just thought I'd share this milestone...

Congrats! There is some research that suggests that diet soft drinks and other nutrasweet products actually deaden your sensitivity to sweetness such that you ultimately crave more and more sweet to satisfy your sweet fix. As a result, paradoxically, folks who eat a lot of nutrasweet and drink diet drinks end up eating more overall calories and gaining weight!

I've heard that, too, but I found during my years of strict low-carbing that I actually came to dislike things that were overly sweet, even though I was eating and drinking a fair amt. of things sweetened with Splenda. Is it only Nutrasweet that has that effect? Maybe it's because my overall sweet intake was greatly reduced and I didn't have the erratic blood sugar issues to make me crave carby stuff. I found that a LOT of things sweetened with non-nutritive sweeteners were overly sweet, to the point that I couldn't tolerate them. Things like sugar-free margarita mixers and other sugar-free soft drinks. I really need to cut back on my caffeine consumption, though. It's only in recent years that I have become a daily coffee drinker. Used to be that I might have 1-2 cups/week, now I am having that much every day. And caffeine no longer makes me jittery or gives me the boost it used to. I'm pretty immune to the effects. Though I am a zombie until I get my morning mug o' joe. Steve, how are you feeling? Has your running been affected in any way? k

Steve, how are you feeling? Has your running been affected in any way? k

I'm actually feeling great (other than being sick with a cold at the moment). I used to drink DC right before my morning runs and right after...but now i just drink water and really have no withdrawals at all...it used to be that my afternoons would drag on if i didn't drink any diet cokes but not anymore. Running wise i haven't really seen an noticeable effects good o bad. It just got to a point where i was drinking so much that my wife started to worry a bit. I was reading on the internet (so it must be true) how people experience headaches and other ailments while trying to quit drinking Diet Coke, that didn't really happen to me. Now the problem is finding a replacement comfort drink (other than bee) maybe i'll just start making ice teas at home with little regular sugar.

WTG on kicking your soda habit!!

Good luck, Steve. I've quit a few things in my day, and my 2 2-liter of DC a day habit was the hardest. Man, I used to be able to drink a Big Gulp at midnight and then go to bed. One DC at dinner now and I'm not sleeping. I still drink (too much of) the decaf stuff and still have it out to dinner, but man it was good to lose that habit. Now I drink coffee, but just in the mornings. I love caffeine. Great drug. Tasty, too. But that all day every day thing is bad.

Great self-discipline! I have never had the soda addiction but I do have a coffee weakness and have been trying for months to "wean" it out of my life. I lack self-discipline in many areas of life, including saying no to stopping at the local Wa-Wa for a cup of coffee a few times a week. I stopped for a while and was drinking green tea, or tea with honey. But then I made the mistake of "rewarding" myself one morning with a cup of coffee and that suddenly made the teas not taste quite good enough!! My one aunt used to drink Pepsi night and day from the second she woke up. Her doctor finally told her she had to stop and after about 5 months she had herself to just ONE can a day. She felt so much better (once the headaches stopped), and she lost weight! Anyhow....Avoid that poison!! You're body will appreciate it.

Now you can eat mentos without exploding.

Ha, I was just encouraging Eryn to have her son do that little trick for his Science project a few weeks back! k

Steve, how's it going? Are you shaking yet?