Diet Soda: ADDICTED!
OK so I'm sipping on a diet soda right now, which is rare for me. I gave up the daily habit late last year in favor of mineral water. I still have a Diet Pepsi every now and again when I feel like it, but for the most part, I try to avoid it. I've heard stories about possible long term effects....
When I was diagnosed, I was encouraged to drink as much diet soda as I wanted. Doctor said, "This is the only thing you can drink that's sweet and won't affect your blood sugar." Since then I've had at least one diet soda every day for over fifteen years. Usually more..I could easily finish a 2-liter bottle in one evening if I wanted.
I was totally addicted until the day I said enough is enough. This stuff can't be good for me.
So is anyone else out there a current or recovering dietsodaholic? Does anyone else believe that they put sugarfree crack in this stuff?
When I was diagnosed, I was encouraged to drink as much diet soda as I wanted. Doctor said, "This is the only thing you can drink that's sweet and won't affect your blood sugar." Since then I've had at least one diet soda every day for over fifteen years. Usually more..I could easily finish a 2-liter bottle in one evening if I wanted.
I was totally addicted until the day I said enough is enough. This stuff can't be good for me.
So is anyone else out there a current or recovering dietsodaholic? Does anyone else believe that they put sugarfree crack in this stuff?
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Permalink Reply by Lee Ann on -
I never made the connection, but maybe that has something to do with why I hate drinking water so much. At camp, in the pre BG-testing days, the lunchtime pee test had to be after a void. There was only like 30 minutes between the end of the last morning activity and lunch, so as soon as we got to the cabin we had to void. Then we all crowded around the water fountain guzzling water. We'd turn the faucets on in the bathroom for 'mood music'. Ahh, the good old days.....
So, ya, anyone who's giving up the diet soda can just give me theirs.
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Permalink Reply by Doris D on -
Lee Ann I see your from "the old school" on that one too! HA!! Oh well the good ole days weren't that good for us really now were they! HA!!!
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Permalink Reply by debb on -
my mother and grandmother always told us to drink water becaue it was good for us. clean us out and all that jazz. i would tell them that i couldn't drink water. when they would ask why i would say because it would rust out my insides. they would laugh like crazy and ask me why i thought that. it made total sense to me. water rust things. so why wouldn't it rust out my insides too. then i would hear my grandmother say that if you pour coke down your drainpipes it would eat the rust. bet you can't guess where i went from there can you? gotta drink the coke, later to be pepsi, (tasted better) so i could rid myself of all the rust on my insides. ok, i was just a little kid. so sue me.
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Permalink Reply by Doris D on
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Now that's nothing but funny!!! HA HA!!! I know that you were a kid and that really sounds like something I would come up with if I had thought of it! HA!!
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Permalink Reply by Lee Ann on
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Ya, I was diagnosed at 5, and I think I was 9 when I started using the old Accu-chek strips with the color code on the bottle (I think I was 11 when I got my first meter), so I have all kinds of fun pee test memories...
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Permalink Reply by Doris D on
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It's funny I rember using the Accu-test system when I was at home but I think that when I moved out I quit and then in 84 right after my hubby and I got married(3 weeks) I had to go in the hospital and there they gave me a bs machine (very serious kidney infection) I thought the Dr had lost his mind!!! I didn't think you could do that at home! Boy was I wrong!!!!!!!
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Permalink Reply by odie on -
Yeah i kinda believe it to,I am addicted to diet coke thou,LOL
but how do I stop I can drink 7 8 a day if I dont watch it?
help me know
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Permalink Reply by dino on -
My name is Dino and I'm a dietsodaholic.
OK so now my fellow dietsodaholics are water-bashing?
Water! The foundation of human life itself... not to mention the main ingredient in the beloved Diet Coke. Where do you think the soda corporations get there water from? A purified river in Heaven?
I know, lets bash protein and oxygen as well. I hate protein and all of its life giving muscle building properties. And you know what, that oxygen smells so pure and disgusting. I'd rather just breathe emissions from a tailpipe. Yeah.
Go ahead and drink your bubbly brown chemicaly ridden "waterless" Diet Cokes. And keep on thinking I'm a nut job for giving it up. Seven days baby and I'm ear to ear...not to mention well hydrated.
I love you all I'm just having so much fun...hehe.
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Permalink Reply by Mary Taour on -
Hi, my name is Mary and I am a diet Pepsi adaholic!
I can't water bash because my 2nd favorite drink is sparkling water... got to have the bubbles!!!
I want to kick the diet soda habit.... but have not made it yet!
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Permalink Reply by Doris D on
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Dino,
I know that water is in diet coke but I don't like the taste of water by itself! Tea yep sure but like I posted before I don't like water for that reason alone!!!!!!!! HA!!!
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Permalink Reply by Ryan Coelho on -
Hi, I drank diet soda for many years and finally just pushed it aside; switching to water and crystal light. I still occasionallly drink a diet soda when we're out to dinner, but not nearly as often. In the process of eliminating soda from my diet we created a beverage (Olade) that replaces all the unhealthy beverages out in the consumer market. Check it out when you have time, it is now my drink of choice..... www.olade.com ......lol sugarfree crack, thats great.
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