The Last Diet Pepsi

I'd find a different doctor because diet coke/diet pepsi can't do any of those things.

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Sodas taste really nasty if you aren't used to them. Almost all of them except the diet versions have the evil High Fructose Corn Syrup in them AND they are expensive so why bother with them? Especially when there is coffee, tea, hot chocolate and so many other lovely ways to get ones caffeine, tannin and theobromine.

There is usually a bottle of cold peppermint tea in the 'fridge so that fills in when folks come to visit who expect soda to be in the fridge.

If you put a piece of fat back in a glass of coke tonight the fatback will be gone in the morning. Coke also makes a great windshield cleaner to get the oil off when raining. I don't know what it does to your stomach but it will settle it if upset so it prob isn't all bad. Sam

man oh man, I sure am craving one right now!!

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I basically have given up my morning diet coke/pepsi and went back to coffee. I was drinking entirely too much on a daily basis and felt the chemicals could be done without.

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We tried to give up our Diet Mountain Dews and moved to coffee a while back but we still had withdrawal symptoms even with the caffeine from the coffee. Probably all in our heads but we figured we must be getting addicted to one of the other chemicals in the soda other than the caffeine.

I gave up soda fairly successfully a year or so ago but DH didn't...Let me tell you, the first sip of forbidden soda and I was back on the wagon...I'd like to try it again, though. I've heard you can keep off a bit of weight by cutting out carbonated drinks.

I was a bona fide Coca-Cola and Mountain Dew addict, yes I was. It was so bad with me that we did NOT run out of coke/mtn dew or somebody made a trip to the store(sad, I know...notice I said 'WAS')

I'd wake in the mornings with a 'hangover headache' already, before I could even get up to drink one! That's when I decided enough was enough and figured out how to make sweet tea. The headaches as I kicked the habit were nasty, I took ibuprofen but it didn't help much. Those severe caffeine withdrawal headaches are just plain ugly.

I'm a sweet tea addict now, tis much better! I have a coke when we're out and about, I enjoy it and go forth. If by chance I indulge and drink alot, I feel terrible--that headache in reverse, it's so weird.

Bravo to you, it's a good thing to kick--hang in there!

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good for you! Anything with aspartame in it is bad for you, period. Considering one of the compounds in it (a type of wood alcohol) gets metabolized into formaldehyde in your body...yech! You're drinking a chemical that becomes embalming fluid

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Brandon

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He who cultivates his land will have plenty of food,
but from idle pursuits a man has his fill of poverty
Proverbs 28:19

Gave up soda for green tea. I buy the cheap Wally World bottled water and add one of the Lipton green tea packets to it. My favorite is Mandarin - Mango Flavor with honey lemon being next. I don't miss the Coke/Pepsi at all - in fact I really don't like them any more.

After reading all the bad stuff about Diet Coke, I switched to beer.

But now, I'm getting fat and they won't let me drink it at work.

There are a couple of Pepsi addicts on staff at the group home where I work. They are both early 20's and I am over 40 years old. I provide care for diabetics so we decided to perform a little informal blood testing on ourselves.

All three of us split a chocolate bar, about an ounce each, earlier in the evening. I drank 2 cups of coffee with sweetener and milk during the shift. They each had a pepsi at the beginning of the shift a few hours earlier. I broke out the glucometer and I tested 5.4 (normal is roughly 5 to 6) shortly after the last coffee and they were both zooming into the 10+ range. They were both shocked and have decided to try and cut back on the pop they are drinking. It could be other factors, I know, but it was kind of scary to see how drinking all the sugar all day everyday can boggle your system.

When in the grocery store I have a hard time containing myself from *blurting out* at those with the 12 or 24 packs of that poison in their carts.
A good friend is killing himself with his hugh consumption of *die-it* pepsi.
He doesn't want to hear about the effects of *asper-killer-tane*
Sad.

I used to live on Pepsi, then I got the idea from somewhere that it might be one of the triggers for my migraines. Quit cold turkey, got fewer migraines, & lost 10 pounds the first month!

That was many, many years ago & I won't touch any cola. I occasionally - like once or twice a year - have a Sprite or ginger ale. My only vice now is a pot of coffee almost every morning - about 4 cups.

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Bonnie
Opportunity Farm
Northeast Washington

"While we have the opportunity, let us do good to all." Galatians 6:10

Glad you can contain, the results wouldn't be pretty, not around here, anyways.


The way I see it, people have their poison of choice- be it smoking, drinking, drugs, fried foods, overeating- whatever. If I get to the pearly gates and all I got against me was poisoning my body with diet pepsi then I'm doin' pretty good.

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I have a headache right now....!

I did the math, I was drinking anywhere between 2-8 diet pepsi servings a day...sheesh.

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Hang in their friend! We gave up soda well over a year ago, and I'm so glad. You may not believe it now, but after a couple of months, it will seem downright nausiating, overly sweet, and not at all thirst quenching. You may also get the added benefit of not craving as many sweets of other kinds as well. Once your palatte gets used to less sugar, highly sweeted things start to taste really gross. I still like a square of dark chocolate, or a little vanilla ice cream, but milk chocolate, sugar cereals, store bought cookies, and hard candy all taste REALLY bad. Good luck! You can do this!

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Melissa
Reformed hoyden. Please forgive me if I relapse.

For me only milk, tea, and water. All natural, all local as well if you make naturally decaf herbal teas.

Throw off the chains of canned/processed/money-stealing drinks.

Well, I did ok for most of the day--was thristy for one this morning when the water was off but I drank water when I got to work instead. Didn't get a headache untill 8pm this evening.

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I switched from soft drinks to fortified wine and I ended up forgetting how to drive. My pants kept going missing too. Craziest thing.

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I too have made the "resolution" to give up soda. I quit Diet Dr Pepper a year ago--or so, but unfortunately I switched to "regular" Dr Pepper. So, now...I have to start over with the caffine headaches. But, this is the year, I will quit.