To have Coke Zero at every meal (dinner) time

[CatherineWheel2]

Is this really that bad…sugar free of course. Fire away please!

I drink a can of diet coke most days at lunchtime. But if it helps, I do feel slightly embarrassed about it.

I used to drink a can of Coke Zero every day. I think it’s a bit addictive. But I decided to stop buying it and drink water instead. I now always have a jug of tap water in the fridge.
I used to look forward to my Coke Zero but now have no desire to drink any

I have one can of it per day, usually in the morning..on a bad day I have one in the evening too. I don't think it's the worst thing in the world, cigarettes would be worse!! (Imo) I'm sometimes partial to the normal coca cola, it has a bit more taste.

I have three glasses a day of pepsi max, spaced out, and I don't drink any in the evenings after 7pm. Teeth are fine, and I don't think I crave sugar that much.

Mumsnet is obsessed with these drinks being bad for you.

In reality, it’s pretty much just flavoured water with a bit of caffeine and sweetener. There is no evidence at all that sweeteners are bad for you - the studies people always cite were a) done on mice, who do not have the same biology as humans and b) involved consuming amounts of sweetener equivalent to hundreds of cans of Diet Coke in one sitting.

The amount of caffeine in Coke Zero is equivalent to about one-quarter of a cup of coffee, or about the same as a cup of tea. You’d have to be unusually sensitive to caffeine for consuming that amount at dinner time to disrupt your sleep.

That’s a myth. It doesn’t cause glucose spikes. It’s actually biologically impossible for it to do so.

Yep, I've been trialling a CGM for the last 2 weeks, and I'm not getting any spike at all with Pepsi Max or Coke Zero. Bloody skyrocketed the one time I grabbed the wrong can out of the fridge and had a full fat coke though!