Give me a reason!

[X-Damien]

...Addicted to Diet Coke - intervention is needed!
4-6 cans a day...
- substitutes? (coke 0?)...
Splenda vs. Aspertame

it's the damn fizz, carbonation

[Johny-too-small]

lol. Welcome to AR

[spywizard]

i'm right there with ya..

only allow myself 1 in the am.... then water all day.. if i do good, i can have 1 with dinner..

good luck

[Superhuman]

I love Diet Coke, too - but recently I've started to like Diet Dr. Pepper more!

If you don't like drinking water all day try Crystal Light - the Peach Tea is AWESOME!

[oneshot]

can anyone explain exactly why diet coke and similar calorie free soft drinks are bad for u? they have also recently came out with crystal light with caffeine added to it. the raspberry green tea flavor is AWESOME as well.

[Superhuman]

can anyone explain exactly why diet coke and similar calorie free soft drinks are bad for u? they have also recently came out with crystal light with caffeine added to it. the raspberry green tea flavor is AWESOME as well.

Diet Coke... as well as 1000's of other products you can get have "Natural Flavors". The ingredients never say what these "Natural Flavors" are...

Check this out, http://www.vegsource.com/articles/natural.flavors.htm


Even better, Diet Coke is filled with Phosphoric Acid, which is why it will clean Car Batteries, etc. Check THIS out...
http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/P3973.htm

[X-Damien]

ahhh crap - am I gonna die?!
...and citric acid in Diet Coke?

anyways - now down to 4 a day

[lil hulk]

i would cut pop out completly.......i did it.....wasnt easy...but after 3 weeks or so of pushin myself.....i probably havnt had a regualr pop or diet pop...foreever.......once your body doenst get that caffine intake all the time.....and if you do have a pop after you havnt had one for a while....your stomach *well mine* will feel like shit...and i can never get to sleep......just try to cut it out completly go to pweraid if you have to have somthin other then water.....try it dont like it go back to what you were doin....workin out suppose to be fun.....my opinion if you dont like doin somthin dont do it...make it fun

[jane smith]

i am not exaggerating at all when i tell you this..

my ex was a puffy and bloated 175. he quit drinking his near-gallon of coke a day and he lost 15 pounds in 3 months. his skin became clearer, his energy level increased and he really just looks better.

that was the only thing he did different. very strange. it was enough to make me swear off carbonated soft drinks forever.

[adioz]

Welcome.. I drink water and coke zero during the day.. at the most one 20 oz coke zero bottle per day and don't think its that bad for you..

[bigsd67]

drink the diet coke....the amount of artificial sweetener you would need for adverse effects would be 1000 diet cokes per day. you have nothing to worry about. Just make sure you drink enough water.

[donniebrasco]

i love pepsi max and pepsi max coffee. mmmmm

[Johny-too-small]

Soemone say coffee? Man, its 9:08 am what am I doing without?

[donniebrasco]

Soemone say coffee? Man, its 9:08 am what am I doing without?

na man its 4:15 pm on a friday evening.

[Johny-too-small]

Haha, look we live in two different places. How was friday for ya? Im still in my robe.

[donniebrasco]

Haha, look we live in two different places. How was friday for ya? Im still in my robe.

put it this way...... im still in my rob. its been one of them days.

[X-Damien]

i am not exaggerating at all when i tell you this..

my ex was a puffy and bloated 175. he quit drinking his near-gallon of coke a day and he lost 15 pounds in 3 months. his skin became clearer, his energy level increased and he really just looks better.

that was the only thing he did different. very strange. it was enough to make me swear off carbonated soft drinks forever.

So...Same diet, same workout routine, just cut off Coke...or you mean Diet Coke?
It would def. make sense if you're talking about reg. coke...

[X-Damien]

Fresca!

[xlxBigSexyxlx]

just drink water.

if you dont have the mental will/discipline to stop drinking cokes, you will be going down a crapshoot regardless of anything.

Just drink water, if the taste, or lack there of, bores you, throw in some crystal light. Beats coke and coke products anyday.

[spittin' 'n cussin']

yeah theres phosphoric acid but not nearly concentrated enough to do crap to u, unless u swish it around in ur mouth for hours a day. its no match for the acid already in our stomach.

im not speaking of diet stuff only, regular coke, i believe, WILL kill u eventually

[516]

substitute it with willpower lol. try flavored seltzer it takes some getting used to but you can get it with natural flavoring its carbonated and has 0 calories.