Diet Soda: ADDICTED!

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Permalink Reply by Stacey on July 15, 2008 at 1:32pm

I drink diet soda all the time and I will not stop! :o) I too have been drinking it since I was little and nothing has happened to me yet so I refuse to think that something will. They seem to find something bad that can come of eating or drinking everything don't they? Hi my name is Stacey and I am a diet soda addict LOL.

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Permalink Reply by dino on July 15, 2008 at 1:38pm

hiiiii Staceeeey.

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan on July 15, 2008 at 1:40pm

Hi. My name is Jonathan and I am a DIET SODA ADDICT. I do not drink coffee, so I need to get my caffeine somewhere. About 8 years ago, I went off, cold turkey, and that lasted about 6 months. But I missed my Diet Coke, and my Diet Dr. Pepper, and my Diet Brown's Raspberry and Cream Sodas, and my........

I usually have one or two cans with breakfast and lunch and also probably average about 1 per hour during the work day. It's 4:30 in the afternoon, and there are 7 empty cans in my recycle bin and one half-empty one on my desk.

If it is bad for me, I'm not sure I want to know. I swear, I should get an award from Coca Cola for how much DC I consume. Why can't there be a frequent drinker's program?

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Permalink Reply by dino on July 15, 2008 at 1:43pm

hiiiii Jonathaaaan.

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Permalink Reply by Lee Ann on July 15, 2008 at 1:53pm

Stacey and I are pretty much the same when it comes to this subject :) I love my soda. I've been drinking it since 1978, before Diet Coke, back when it was Tab, Fresca and Diet Rite. Can you imagine only 3 choices?? Ahh, the old days. Nothing bad has ever happened to me that I can connect to it. I enjoy it immensely, and it's nice to consume something I enjoy without having to count or calculate anything. It's my little oasis in a dessert of carbs, calories and fat - so to speak anyway. If someone thinks it's bad for them and chooses to not drink it, that's their business. What gets me all riled up is people who lecture me about how diet soda is evil, how my brain is going to implode from drinking it, etc. Mind your own stinking business! Considering I've had the 'betes for 30 years, my health is reasonably good, and without a lick of evidence that the soda is doing bad things to me, I ain't giving it up. So there.

All that being said, I don't feel addicted to it. When I've run out, I just drink Crystal Lite, iced tea or flavored waters, and I don't get the shakes or whatever from not having it. I just like it a lot.

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Permalink Reply by dino on July 15, 2008 at 1:57pm

hiiiii Lee Aaaann.

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Permalink Reply by Kathy on July 15, 2008 at 2:53pm

Hell yes!!!!!!
I have had db since '74 and yes indeed I remember when Tab and Fresca were the only thing available. Also, there was pre-sweetened Kool Aid which tasted like they'd stirred iron filings into it.
I go through it by the gallon - at work, I've gotta have a Diet Pepsi as soon as I sit down. Now I'm also lapping up Coke Zero. Gotta have it.
I try not to keep any any home, though, but now the grocery store is having these really good summer sales.............
Just take a look at the zillion websites that talk about aspartame toxicity and you'll be freaked. It seems to be a neurotoxin, causing everything from symptoms of MS to fuzzy thinking. ............
If anyone has any foolproof way to kick this monster, do tell.

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Permalink Reply by dino on July 15, 2008 at 2:56pm

hiiiii Kathyyyyy

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Permalink Reply by saundra barragan on July 15, 2008 at 5:05pm

Hi. My name is Saundra and i am a diet soda addict. If it isn't diet Sunkist orange, it's diet Coke, diet Dr. Pepper, diet Sprite, you name it. If it is diet, I have probably tried it. Yes, I know it is supposed to be bad for me and I am sure there will probably be plenty of people who will tell me it will kill me. I drank regular soda up until I was about 21 or 22. My Mom and Dad loved soda and we only got them on very special occasions. Yes, I drink water too. Upon occasion i also drink coffee I gave up most alcohol when i was diagnosed and found out what it did to my blood sugars. My diet soda sits just fine in my stomach. I really don't want to stop drinking it

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Permalink Reply by debb on July 15, 2008 at 7:31pm

hi dino, i have to admit i'm not a diet soda fan. when they told me i had diabetes and had to give up regular soda i said fine and just walked away from soda altogether. then i started realizing just how much is not out there to drink. i don't like coffee or tea. hate water. so i have given in to tea only so far as to drink diet peach snapple. the peach helps to cover the aspertame taste. i do drink more water now, but i usually pour a touch of juice in there to cover the water taste. like 2 thimbles full of juice to a 16 oz glass of water. i haven't seen a rise in my sugar when i do that. i also keep the water in the fridge. it tastes better ice cold.
i don't know if it had anything to do with the diabetes but even pepsi was starting to taste different just before i was dx'd. maybe they changed the recipe again.

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Permalink Reply by Big Al on July 15, 2008 at 7:43pm

I TRY, with try being the operative word, to limit my soda intake to one or two 20 oz bottles or cans per day. I do drink a lot of diet green tea with citrus flavor. That is pretty good stuff. Drink V-8 juice too (a lot less carbs than OJ or other fruit juices). As far as diet sodas go, Pepsi, Mt. Dew, Dr. Pepper, Coke Zero, (for some reason I like it better than Diet Coke), Sierra Mist, Sprite, A & W Root Beer, etc. I guess that I too am a diet soda addict.

Hmmmmm..... Are we gonna have to start DSA (Diet Soda Anonymous)??? LOL!!!

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan on July 15, 2008 at 7:59pm

V-8 is great, but nothing beat my diet soda. I really miss Tab from before DC came along.

Are there 12 steps involved in DSA?

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