To be addicted to diet coke

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I have to have 3 cans a day one at 10 one at lunch and one at 5.

I want to give up but end up drinking fruit juice with more calories.

I hope I've just given up Diet Coke for the last time. I had a multi day headache while withdrawing too!

Better than fruit juice /loads of coffee etc, but could you not go for diluting juice instead/as well as? Not much sugar and makes water taste good :). Plus I always find if you put ice in it it tastes 20 times better

try to give it up if it is addictive. The stuff is toilet cleaner, zero nutrition, horrible waste of resources and wrecks your teeth

try water and food. They are great

THIS! x 1000!

My SIL's father died of bladder cancer. He used to drink between 12 - 20 cans A DAY! The oncologist was convinced there was a link.

I gave up a six cans a day habit. Clean for over two years now. I still miss it. I've never found a substitute I like as much.

Google "CocaCola Rodeos" and see what they sponser.

Then decide if you want to give them your money

I'd rather drink my own piss.

I am addicted to pepsi max and drink more than you.

There is so scientific proof that sweetness are the devil. No evidence at all. So I am not worried. Although I would save a lot of money if I could give it up.

I also have never had one filling, my teeth are fine.

Former dc addict here, best thing I ever did was give it up, I've switched soda and lime now. I sleep better now and find it easier to avoid other sweet things. Giving up was hell though, it was six months before I stopped craving it.

Reading this drinking my 4th can of Pepsi Max today!

I'm an addict too and I'm so ashamed. I hate it!

RE bone health.

Most people who drink a lot of fizzy tend not to drink as much drinks with calcium in it. That is probably a big reason for it, not the coke itself.

But other studies that have taken a hard look at the claim suggest there may be nothing to it. Caffeine is the one ingredient in soda that has been shown to have any direct effect on calcium, but scientists say the effect is so minimal that it can be offset by a normal diet.

One randomized study that showed this directly was published in 2001 by a team at the Creighton University Osteoporosis Research Center. The researchers followed 32 people for a month and had them drink different formulations of soda with varying levels of caffeine, phosphorus or citric acid so they could take urine samples and determine how much calcium the subjects were excreting. As expected, those who drank caffeine-rich sodas excreted calcium; the others did not. But the levels excreted were not considered significant.

Dr. Robert P. Heaney, the lead author of the study, said it was likely that soda drinkers had weaker bones because the soda in their diet was displacing other drinks that had calcium, like orange juice and milk. The problem is not what soda contains, he said, but what it does not.

www.nytimes.com/2006/06/20/health/20real.html?_r=0

I am on my 5th can today!

Still not worried about it.

Mind you, I don't often drink a full can. When it goes warmer and less fizzy my husband finishes them off and I get a new ice cold one.

That stuff is not good for you. It's pretty nasty.

I wouldn't touch it myself, so on the basis of that, to reply to the OP, YABU, I guess!

I'm pretty addicted too. I have to have one during the course of a morning. Sometimes I can then go the rest of the day without any more, other days I'll have one at lunch and then one more in the afternoon...so it can be up to 3 a day.

I don't drink tea or coffee though, so I am not getting caffeine from anywhere else.

Periodically people always preach to me about aspatarmine and cancer or else how diet coke makes you fat, but TBH I just personally think it's not worth worrying about and smile politely and nod through the lectures and carry on drinking it.

My teeth are fine, my weight is fine, my health is fine...if I end up developing a diet-coke related disease one day then everyone can say I told you so, but until then I'll just keep drinking it.

"I'm the same with coffee around 12 cups a day with six sweeteners"

Yuck. Why artificial sweeteners FGS? If you are going to fill your body with crap why not have sugar instead?

"Yanbu to like diet coke."

YABVU to like diet Coke. It is vile. Full fat coke tastes so much nicer. IMO all diet versions of drinks have a sickly taste, leave a horrible aftertaste and, in my case, have nasty side effects.

"I could give it up if I wanted to but I'd replace it with coffee or juice which are just as bad"

Coffee isn't anything like as bad for your teeth. Carbonated drinks are very bad for your teeth.

I much prefer a cup of tea.

sorry pressone can't be bothered reading your very long post. So what's the addictive element in Diet Coke?

Because she prefers sweeteners perhaps?

If I drink coffee I have sweeteners because they don't have calories, well very few and sugar has a lot and I like my drinks sweet.

When someone can come on and give me proper peer supported proven evidence to prove that aspartame is the devil then I might listen. So far, no one has ever provided me with the evidence that wasn't built on scare mongering and bad science.

Of course it isn't going to be great for you, but dangerous? still waiting for proper evidence on that one.

And like I said, my teeth are fine. Not one filling here. I have been drinking it like this for 14 years.

The scaremongering on these threads gets a bit hysterical.

What does the evidence say about aspartame? A recent published review of all available evidence, including hundreds of studies, concluded:

The studies provide no evidence to support an association between aspartame and cancer in any tissue. The weight of existing evidence is that aspartame is safe at current levels of consumption as a nonnutritive sweetener.

Multiple reviews, going back to 1985, conclude the same thing. Since this latest review there have been more studies, in various countries (how big is this conspiracy?), showing no link between aspartame and brain cancer, and a lack of correlation between artificial sweeteners and gastric, pancreatic, and endometrial cancers.

Some effects, such as a dose-dependent effect on renal tumors, are specific to rats and do not translate to humans. Other studies are plagued by significant flaws, such as properly calculating doses (a big issue when trying to extrapolate doses from rats to humans). And still others show flat effects without a dose response curve, suggesting that a confounding factor, and not aspartame, is responsible for any observed increase in tumors.

By my reading, the current summary of available research is that consuming calories in drinks contributes to weight gain and obesity, substituting calorie-free drinks (whether water or diet drinks containing artificial sweeteners) does help reduce caloric intake and aid in weight control, but there is a tendency to overcompensate by increasing other caloric intake. Therefore it seems reasonable to use artificial sweeteners to reduce caloric intake from drinks, but to be careful to control overall caloric intake (so no, putting aspartame in your coffee does not mean you can eat the cheesecake).

www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/aspartame-truth-vs-fiction/

yabu. it's almost poison. >

Water is better.

But water is so... boring!

No fizzy cold bubbles tasting of whatever the hell pepsi max tastes like.

I don't like full sugar Coke. It sort of coats my teeth.

I kicked a Diet Coke habit. It was honestly all I drank, save for the very occasional coffee. I replaced it with ice cold fizzy water, and I'd add frozen slices of lemon and lime and drink it through a straw. Somehow it replicated the same 'bite' you get at the back of your throat when you drink Diet Coke.

It didn't last, but I never got as addicted again and varied my drinks more. I switched to Pepsi Max and for some reason, it doesn't have the same addictive quality. I can genuinely take it or leave it.

I absolutely loathe fizzy water; I don't know how people can drink it. It's like drinking sea water!

please stop drinking pepsi and coca cola whether it is diet or not as it causes stomach ulcers or gut rot as i call it!!
let alone the fact that its packed with sugar so you'll have no teeth left either!!
water or very diluted squash are both much better for you!!

Ah I want a diet coke now and have none left in my stash. Will have to be a energy drink instead.

I'll stop drinking Pepsi Max if you stop doubling up on exclamation marks. Deal?

When I lose my first tooth or even get a filling then I might consider giving it up.