One thing I noticed about diet soda: every time you want one, you have to open a can or bottle. I got more cognizant of this because we don't actually have garbage pickup where I live, so I have to recycle each one of those bloomin' cans or bottles and take them to the recycle place, every week. The amount of "pop" a few people can go through in a week is kind of scary.
What we've mostly done in my family is switch to tea. We have a "hot shot" kind of thing that gives instant tea water, and everyone has their favorite teas. Mine is Neem, which I get from Neemtreefarms. I also grow lemon verbena and a couple of others. I keep the leaves in the freezer, so I can just grab a few to add to the hot water. Other people like the dried teas, like chamomile and mint.
Anyway, it's a different habit. The teas, to me, taste "fresher" and less artificial, and I don't actually miss the sweet (or artificial sweet) taste. I do like fizzy stuff though, and have experimented with "poor man's pop" (vinegar and baking soda, which is actually rather good!) and fizz water of various types. I don't like all the recycles though, so I try for homemade!
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Jump4Joy <joy2garden@yahoo.com> wrote:
I think the keys words here are "CAN be". I know that for me, I wouldn't have made it in my early weeks without my Lime Diet Coke before my window opened. I think it's an individual thing whether or not limbic hunger is stimulated. Of course, I need to note that I've never had more than one or two 12 oz. cans in a day. I drink LOTS of regular water in addition to the flavored calorie-free water I drink throughout the day.
Recently, I bought a glucometer because I was curious as to whether I would have an insulin response to the artificial sweetener in my soda when in a fasted state. There was none. No spike at all. I've also noticed that, for me, I've felt no increase in appetite after drinking the soda, but instead an actual decrease in my appetite. That's just me, though. My experiment of one.
Now that I'm into my 13th week, I find that I'm naturally drinking diet soda less and less...but that doesn't mean I'm giving it up completely, unless my tastes change. Personally, I think there is too much hype about diet soda and the seemingly endless list of everything else that is supposedly "bad" for you. I prefer to travel my own path of moderation. Everyone knows themselves best and should do what feels best for their own bodies.
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> From what I have read both caffeine and artificial sweeteners in excess can be appetite stimulants. I think if you are drinking a lot of diet soda it could be slowing down your weight loss. Try drinking a lot of water instead and taking walks also helps suppress the appetite naturally.
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