Are you addicted to Diet Coke like I am?

[Confused2k2218]

I drink a lot of Diet Coke. I am the first to admit that but it always seems that I am the only one!

I mean I know I can’t be because otherwise it wouldn’t be sold literally everywhere…

I’d say on average I drink 2 cans a day. Maybe that’s not loads but I have to restrict myself. Otherwise I could probably drink it by the litre daily, first thing in the morning and last thing at night.

Anyone else have a love for Diet Coke?

@Heatherjayne1972

Well my teeth are holding up pretty well thanks 😁.

I feel like op would have gotten less stupidity if she’d started a thread about how she likes to do cocaine. Isn’t this mumsnet? The place where a ‘big glass of wine’ is the answer to everything?

Battery acid has a ph of 0.8. Coke is around 2.3. Diet Coke is around 3.1. So coke is not at a similar level to battery acid - if you don’t have a clue what you’re on about maybe pop off and do something else?

Wooptie fucking ping.

Not diet coke but diet 7 up .I can't have it in because it's addictive

I love my Diet Coke. My consumption goes up over the summer and down when it gets cooler but I am drinking loads of it at the moment. As soon as my current supply is gone then I'm going to try to go back to water/squash. On the flip side I don't drink at all and have never smoked so 🤷🏼‍♀️

Full sugar coke. I don't drink tea or coffee so it's my caffeine fix. I get edgy if I have none in the house. I know it's bad for me 🤷🏻‍♀️

Not diet coke, but at the moment different brands of energy drinks, as I like the flavour, not to bad amount wise, e.g. 3-4 in a week on average only started a couple of weeks ago when it was hot weather as it was nice to have one to cool down.

Diet Coke is an ultra processed food, literally a cocktail of chemicals created in labs, devoid of any nutritional value and doing untold damage to your bodies.

Someone has already mentioned aspartame, studies have found it does stimulate your appetite (or the hormones responsible for it). A few studies linked here: usrtk.org/sweeteners/aspartame_health_risks/

There is HUGE money being made off fizzy drinks and the drinks companies will pay scientists and doctors to produce studies opposing anything negative about them.

Yep... around one/two cans of Coke Zero per day, sometimes more. Tried to give up last year but fell off the wagon.

I had a good friend who drank at least four cans of Diet Coke a day (usually more) for years. She died in her early 30s of bowel cancer. Obviously no way to show a link but it spooked me.

When I was pregnant, any artificial sweeteners made me feel sick...they tasted truly vile. Made me wonder if my body knew it was really bad...and I should not consume them.

Pepsi max here.

2 cans every day unless it's crazy busy and can easily drink 4/5.

I hate to think what my insides look like

Same here until a very abrupt cut-off during pregnancy. I drank so much of it I failed the gestational diabetes test and later found out that I was pre-diabetic before pregnancy. After going cold turkey on sugar during the final trimester I actually developed a taste for coffee and basically addicted to that now.

I still love full sugar Coke and have it as a special treat 2-3x a month. I buy those tiny mixer cans which I find just as satisfying. For me it's really just the first few mouthfuls of sugar and caffeine hitting your brain so it never has to be a full can or bottle (which would probably send my blood sugar through the roof anyway).

I agree with this.
I don’t get the love.

@Comedycook

Well when I was pregnant vegetables made me hideously sick. I literally couldn’t eat a single veg without heaving. I had NO idea what my body thought that rejecting all that nutrition was a good idea.

The aspartame studies have been debunked time and time again so it’s not something I could get worked up over. I mean you have women here knocking back 4 glasses of wine a night and no one seems to bat an eyelid at that

I love DC and so does my husband. Drink a can a day. Sometimes 2. Sometimes none. It's so good.

I drank diet coke for 10 years or more every day. I stopped and now I drink water as my prefered drink.

I used to drink two cans a day but it gave me awful headaches after about three years constant use. I was struggling to sleep too!
Then I got covid and my tastes changed and it doesn't really do it for me any more.

When I do have Coke / Pepsi max now it gives me little spots on my back so I really try not to drink it.

I went to a dance recently and had two tins of DC, I was awake all night shaking and sore stomach so that really put me off!

I was. 2l a day, sometimes more. Instead of pints of beer at the pub I'd drink pints of diet coke.

2012 I gave up Diet Coke for Lent. On day 3 I really want a bottle, which made me think "Gosh, if I want it that much I had better take a break from it."
On Easter Sunday I was running an event. I sat down afterwards - and found my beautiful Diet Coke had turned into overly sweet brown fizzy water 😱 I couldn't drink it any more.

I hadn't intended to stop drinking Diet Coke. I drank caffeine free when I could get it, so what was the harm?

Two interesting things happened. I was calorie counting hard at the time but I would be out drinking Diet Coke whilst trying to get home to eat and would suddenly get light headed/low blood sugar, way in advance of when I expected to be. I used to hit cars at low speed like this. Someone suggested this was the Acesulfame K, which has been shown to do a similar thing in rats. I don't crunch cars like that now. The second interesting thing was when I bought some sugar free mints from.B&M. Coolmints perhaps? I had two and felt unusually cheerful, then I had a third and the feeling of increase in my well being was utterly scary, like I imagine taking ecstasy would feel. I looked at the pack ingredients and they were the same as Diet Coke,.minus the water and caramel (colouring).

I drink fizzy water now. I can taste artificial sweeteners now when I couldn't. I hadn't intended to give up the magic brown fizz, but I am glad I did.