Soda is not really food. We'd all better off just eliminating it from our regular diets and looking at it as an occasional treat, like a dessert.

It probably is true, but I couldn't live without my diet coke!

I've heard this also. I used to drink ONLY diet pepsi...rarely ever drank any water at all. Then...hmmm...was it about a month or two ago??? I started drinking water and set a limit of 1 - 2 cans of diet pepsi in a day. I only buy the cans now...I use to go through piles of 2 liters. I typically only have 1 can a day and sometimes none. My weight loss has sped up since going to water. So...there HAS to be something to all this!!!

Amen sista!! Seriously - - I'm as addicted as they come. And I'm the ass in the restaurant that get's irritated that they serve Pepsi craproducts!

My experience with diet-soda is that if I dont drink it, or rather have it as a very special treat (in parties and family gatherings, and then only a large glass 2-3 times a month) I actually lose weight faster.

Since I am sugar-free now (that is dont eat any sugar, except fruits of course) my tastebuds have changed dramatically, and in fact I always diluted my diet-soda with some soda-water, since I thought the taste was WAY too strong for my liking.

Now I only have soda-water on a daily basis, and I try to limit it to max. one large glass daily, because if I drink to much I get bloated. I have also figured out how to make my own soda-water with flavor. It tastes so great when you put orange juice (of course pure orange-juice with no added sugar or anything else in it) 1/4 or 1/3 of the glass and fill it up with soda. It actually tastes a lot better then regular soda, very refreshing. Then there is of course the lemon-juice that I like a lot, and if you have a juice-maker you can make juice of all kinds of fruits and blend it with the soda-water, then you know at least whats in your (homemade) soda-pop. The organization that makes the food-program I am on have also many products I can buy in Iceland, and one of those are concentrated juices made only with berries (nothing added), and I always buy the cranberry juice, and its so yummie with soda-water.

In my opinion the diet-sodas are so full of artificial flavorings, color and sweeteners that it cant be good to you, specially if people are only drinking diet-sodas the whole day instead of water. I have also experienced stomach and digestion problems and the pain in my legs gets so much worse when I drink diet-soda.

Well, I have found if you cut calories you lose weight. It has nothing to do with diet soda. I've had diet soda while dieting & also have not had any. Not one bit of difference. By the way I use to drink a min. of a 12 pack a day of diet coke. Sometime in Aug. it will be one year since I have had any soda. I have never felt any better by not having diet soda.

Chip

WOW Chip!!!! NO soda at all? That is wonderful!!!!

bep, NONE!!


Chip

This might just be me but diet soda just makes me want real soda. I do better not having any. when I want one ill get one of those coke mini 100 calorie cans.
so far I haven't needed one

I heard that being addicted to soda is like being addicted to coffee. I knew someone who started drinking cola as soon as she got up until she went to bed. That is so wild but when I think about it, I was addicted to coffee and when I slowly cut down, I was having withdrawls. Literally. That was scary because I never ever thought that coffee was that addicting. How wrong I was.

jodee thats how I was and it was nothing to put down 6-8 cans a day.

I literally had a 2 -3 pot a day coffee habit for years - and I drank good coffee - not maxwell house or folgers - that brown water masquerading as coffee --i drank good strong cuban coffee or espresso... drank it black -so theoretically there was nothing wrong with it... and it didn't affect my insomnia- infact I probably slept better caffeinated... When I gave up coffee.. I had headaches that rivalled migraines that I get... where my hair would hurt... but it doesn't last - the withdrawl headaches last about 3 days... the withdrawk crankiness - well I was cranky before... so... it never goes away

I have recently discovered the new Diet Ocean Spray (cranberry and citrus). It only has 5 calories per serving, no caffeine, and 2 grams of sugar per serving. At most, I drink one diet drink per day, but I would like to totally cut that out. The cranberry juice tastes like regular juice, so I don't mind drinking it (I don't like to drink plain water). Just my 2 cents!

wow, I didn't know that. I stopped drinking regular soda years ago, but I would drink diet soda on occasion..and I did realise that after I would drink it..I would really want something sweet...and I would usually get it. I have been diet soda free for weeks now.

Troutman, I have been soda-free for three months now. It feels good.

I highly recommend just getting rid of soda, be it diet or otherwise. It is not in the slightest bit necessary.