Giving up Diet Coke!

LouBlue

ZTD wrote: »

Diet drinks make you fat: When your tongue tastes something sweet, your body releases insulin to pull sugar out of your blood. Why? Because your body knows you're just about to dump a whole load of sugar into your blood from the sweet thing you've just swallowed. Except with a diet drink that doesn't happen. So you have low blood sugar, and want something sweet. So you drink a diet drink... Eventually, you have "a chocolate/cake/biscuit/sweet moment" and the real sugar from that brings your blood-sugar back up to normal. But of course since it was a craving, you've actually consumed more calories than if you'd just had a sugary thing in the first place.

Now THAT bit might make me cut down a lot......:think:

kika

Thanks to ZTD for all that. I feel I need all the gen againest to help me as I've tried before.

Swan_2

ZTD wrote: »

Also - there are some people who believe that aspartame affects satiety. Normally when you drink, you feel a little bit less thirsty, so stop drinking. It's believed by some that aspartame affects that, so when you drink, the "wet feeling" soon goes, so you want another one. And another. And another. Just because the feeling of long term satiety (what's the drink analogue of the food feeling of "full"?)

Of course companies would pay good money for this, which does explain aspartame's almost ubiquity in drinks. Even "full fat" stuff often has aspartame in, and things sweetened by other sweetners (such as sacharrine) also have aspartame in.

Which would be a weird thing to do, thinking about it, if you didn't take the satiety thing into account.

now that's really interesting, I rarely drink fizzy drinks (unless with alcohol & then they have to be artificial sweetener free) or squash/'juice' ... I much prefer plain tap water

anyway, I was staying over at a friend's house out in the wilds recently, their water 'comes off the hill' ie, from a spring, not mains water & it's the best water I've ever tasted
they'd had a drought & had very little water & what there was was brown & undrinkable
when I asked for a glass of water I was offered bottled lemonade, which I had to drink as there was no alternative

not only did it taste vile, but it didn't quench my thirst no matter how much of it I drank, which now makes sense having read your post

scary stuff

kaya

Diet coke makes your body dump all its magnesium, it really is a nasty substance
here is a list by the FDA of the side effects of the dreaded sweetner for the uninformed
http://www.relfe.com/Aspartame_92.html

cobbingstones

Hi Will,

Blimey I've been seriously into DC for approx 7 years. The only time that I hated the stuff was when I was pregnant. Couldn't drink it at all. Why? (Thankful that was the way though after reading this thread)

I drink on average around 6/7 cans a day I have found myself buying those fridge packs of 10 every day, to make sure that I always have it in.

I do not smoke, drink or do drugs. This is my vice. But I know I have to seriously cut down. I really do not like anything else to drink though. Rarely drink coffee, don't like tea. I suppose I could try squash.

Would it be best to cut down one a day for a week and then continue to slowly reduce?

Thanks for the thread Will.

MM

ZTD

madsmum wrote: »

I do not smoke, drink or do drugs. This is my vice. But I know I have to seriously cut down. I really do not like anything else to drink though. Rarely drink coffee, don't like tea. I suppose I could try squash.

Would it be best to cut down one a day for a week and then continue to slowly reduce?

The only thing you're likely to miss is going to be the caffeine. So drink whatever you like and pick up some Pro-plus from the supermarket. That's what I did - except instead of squash I drank really cheap lemonade. You know the stuff, a citric acid solution that is shown the picture of a lemon before it leaves the factory.

Snaggles

Nah, there aren't even pictures of real lemons in the factory - they're just shown a photo of a Jif lemon.

bathgatebuyer

Afraid I'm a victim of DC too - although now down to 2 x 29p cans a day from Instore!

kika

I'm down to 3 cans a day but coffee consumption going up. Still its not as bad for you as diet coke.