please tell me how bad it is in order to help me quit. I normally have about 6 cans a day. One of my friends calls it “mouse killin’ soda.” I just paused in my typing to take a drink . . . I guess there are worse things I could be addicted to . . .
Bag the Diet Coke and join me for a Diet Mt. Dew. I drink a ton if it every day. If it is going to kill me, at least I’ll be awake when it happens.
Hi, I’m Mike and I’m a Cokeaholic. It all started so innocently. A quick refill before leaving McD’s, then a big gulp on the way home from work. Before I knew it I was hooked. I hit rock bottom when my wife caught me cross legged on the kitchen floor pounding a 2 liter by the refigerator light. The first step to recovery is realizing you have a problem.
quit the soda and drop 5 lbs… and it costs you nothing.
well, all my non diet coke drinking time is usually utilized for that occassional diet dr. pepper . . . I actually carried flat regular mt. dew in a few races years ago. I don’t know if it helped but also don’t know if it hurt.
Right with ya…glad to know there is now a support group being formed here??
How to kick the habit???
Trevor
Fisrt of all how the hell do you guys get your dealers to give you the diet stuff? My guy only carries full strength. My bad, on rereading the post I realized different product completely.
BUT…I to have a problem, sometimes it stops at 710ml, sometimes I stop at a 2L per day. This afternoon at lunch I saw my first Pepsi (drink of choice) and ran for it, knocking over my work partner and scatteing my customers around the room in my haste to taste the sweet sweet liquid. The first sip felt sooo sooo good(yes it was good enough to require extra ooo’s). The coolness, the carbonation, the high fructose corn syrup landing against my tounge and throat. So so very tasty. Even now recalling that first sip I smile, a very big smile. I can’t wait to race, to have that pepsi upon waking as part of my breakfast after starving myself of it for a week. Then right before the race drinking another 175ml of defizzed sweet tasty sugary nectar as I head to the start line.
My competitors usually point and laugh when they see me drinking a pepsi right before the gun goes off. But I know I’m sparing muscle glycogen by raising my blood sugar levels, thereby extending my endurance potential. Woo are they who do not pay homage to the soda gods. They will learn the true power of pepsi soon enough.
Tomorrow starts a work trip, as much tasty bubbly liquid as I can expense out! I wishit were morning already.
I’m Desert Dude, not only might I have a small problem, but according to Mr. Tibbs (aka customerjon, thought you slip the name change by did you?) I’m a smartass to boot.
i kicked the habit when i got here to college…as at every meal, each soda costs more than a dollar…which i could spend on a plate of pasta instead. so convince the stores around you to jack up the price of soda. boy, won’t everyone appreciate you? i sure would.
i write that as i have three cans of moxie next to me. will they be finished by the night’s out? who knows…must resist appetizing gentian root extract…
darrell
Diet coke is fine for you, zero calories and about 1/3 the caffeine of a cup of coffee. I drink, on average, 3 liters per day and have (every day) for the past 8 years or so. Works well for weight loss, caffeine is a good stimulant, hell I even pop guarana pills in the A.M. at work !!
zow!!!
more on caffeine, my drug of choice, on the weekends I OD on Starbucks: http://www.guarana.com/cafchart.html
- G
Diet coke a fine food???
Doesn’t the additive in diet drinks turn to fermaldahyde once osidized?? Seriously we were told this in sports science by the anatomy lab technician - anyone else heard it?
if diet drinks are so good, why do they come with warnings on the label. No warnings on pure water.
From what I understand, I work in a town right next to the town where Moxie was invented (Lisbon, ME I think) . . . I think they even have “Moxie days”
Well, I wouldn’t call it “mouse-killin soda” for two reasons.
First, it is no longer made with saccharin, the alleged cancer-causing agent.
Second, they pretty much debunked the crap about saccharin causing cancer. The FDA even approved it, although the BS hype pretty much destroyed any marketability it had.
I think the mouse-killin’ tests went something like: Feed a 1 pound rat 1 kilo of saccharin per week. Act surprised when it dies.
Diet Coke now has aspartame, the perfectly harmless sweetener that won’t drive you insane, won’t affect your brain chemistry, and only causes seizures in the very few people affected by serotonin-like chemicals. Just go to the nutrasweet web site and they’ll tell you how none of their studies have found anything wrong with it, and those other studies were not approved by them. 
BTW, one of the best dietary things I ever did was switch to Diet Coke. I lost 20 pounds in 6 months with no other changes to my diet. I was on a 12 a day habit back then. Now I only drink one.
I heard on a radio interview last year that one of the worst combo’s you could ever put in your system was pepperoni from your favorite pizza washed down with any form of diet soda of your choice. Evidently, the byproducts from the chemical reactions between the preservatives in the pepperoni and the chems. in the soda are far from optimum training grub.
I’ve solved my addiction!!! Here is how you can also. Brew up a cup of tea. Not any cup mind you but a nice yellow cup with flowers. (my wife picked it out so don’t go startin’ anything). Put in several large clumps of brown sugar. You want to fill the teacup up about 1/3 full,at least. You will need 2, yes, 2 tea bags of English Lifeboat tea. You may use breakfast or earl grey. Pour boiling water, I like the teakettle whistle as it makes my dogs howl sometimes, and stir until the sugar is dissolved or 5 secs which ever comes first. Drop in 2 tea bags for 8 mins. Sit back and watch the need to reach for a soda disappear.
I’m healed or cured or whatever!!!
Here’s a feather for your cap: My friend in advertising told me about a tour he took of a Diet Coke plant. He spoke to the chemical engineers in charge of flavor and THEY said they would never in a million years drink the stuff. How’s that make you feel?
I use to drink diet Sun Drop and diet Dr.Pepper for years.About two years ago I started getting these big red areas on my body.Then I started to break out in hives.I itched like crazy, couldn’t sleep.I went to Allergist, the first thing he ask me was how much diet soda do you drink a day? I told him six or more.Needless to say he told me to get off the the diet suff.I though he was crazy no way was diet soda the problem.Well it took alot of effort but finally I did stop and the problem did go away.Now I live on Gatorade, I drink by the gallon.
Dave
Wow, there are others out there like me…
Currently, it’s 8:40AM here in Los Angeles, and, as usual, I’m on my 2nd can of the day (soon to be followed by the third). Most days I top out at around eight-10 cans. I TRY to not drink any after 5:00, but I’m not always successful. Compounding my problem is they sell cans @ my office for $.25, so it’s hard to resist.
How bad is my problem?? I switched from United Airlines to American when United switched to Pepsi (I can’t stand Diet Pepsi) I know the difference between European Diet Coke and American Diet Coke, just by looking at the cans. I can legitimately say I’ve been a patron of most of the 7-11s in the San Fernando Valley at one point or another Did any of you other guys get personal letter from the CEO of Coke last year thanking you for your business? (just kidding on that one)
yeah they do have moxie days! and there’s even a 5k race. i’ve been to the festival for the last three years. it’s a really good race. was my first 5k ever a year and a half ago and i set my pr there four months ago. and it’s fun seeing all the politicians at a festival for a 120 year old soda(the original, mind you!)
anyways…moxie’s good stuff.
darrell
quit the soda and drop 5 lbs… and it costs you nothing.
can you explain me how one can loose weight by quitting to drink diet soda (0calories)? thanks for your answer.
btw. I’m also addicted to coke. but it has to be the real deal and pepsi doesn’t do it for me either.
Honestly, I don’t know the answer to that one…It is just one of the things I learned back in my late teens when I attended weight watchers to drop 15 lbs…and it really did work. Then, a fellow cyclist recently told me the same thing. He did it too…I don’t know the facts behind why it works though.