Diet Soda - Page 4 - ThinnerTimes

JenBear7 · 01-16-2007, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Jennimaria

That whole study is scary as hell!

I need to quit drinking diet soda, but it's just so hard. I can't deal with the headaches and I don't want them to interfere with my work.

I can tell you from experience.. caffeine headaches do go away eventually, when your body adjusts to not having it.. I found this "blurb" on a caffeine website:

Regular caffeine consumption reduces sensitivity to caffeine. When caffeine intake is reduced, the body becomes oversensitive to adenosine. In response to this oversensitiveness, blood pressure drops dramatically, causing an excess of blood in the head (though not necessarily on the brain), leading to a headache.

This headache, well known among coffee drinkers, usually lasts from one to five days, and can be alleviated with analgesics such as aspirin. It is also alleviated with caffeine intake (in fact several analgesics contain caffeine dosages).

Often, people who are reducing caffeine intake report being irritable, unable to work, nervous, restless, and feeling sleepy, as well as having a headache. In extreme cases, nausea and vomiting has also been reported.

I am a HUGE coffee drinker..go in spurts, so I am very familiar with these headaches...

every once in a while, when I think I am getting too much caffeine.. I stop.. Good Luck!

forsythia · 01-16-2007, 04:26 PM

I drink soda once in a blue moon. However, I never drank coffee before I had WLS - now I drink it every day. I am now a certified java junkie.

I told you I was a bad example.

Alleusion · 01-16-2007, 05:54 PM

Don't consider it as cheating or as doing something naughty. You'll end up sabatoging yourself. If you want a soda, damn it drink one.

I personally don't go with the whole "you gain more weight by drinking diet sodas" theory. They say that because people justify having excess calories that they aren't getting by going the diet route. I drink diet soda, and I still only average 800-1000 calories a day (don't look at me like that Bridget).

I don't eat sweets, or fatty foods, and I don't crave sugar because I'm drinking and artificial sweetener. I know my limits, and I don't make excuses for my choices.

fitbefore40 · 01-17-2007, 08:55 AM

My Dr convinced me that b/c of the bypass you absorb less calcium, so you need calcium pills 2X a day . . . than he says, now if you add soda to that - your bones just won't get the calcium b/c the phosphurus (?) acid makes the calcium leach from your bones. . .. yeah, he's a scary doctor . .. but he broke my habit . . . NO SODAS FOR ME!!

ladytonya · 01-17-2007, 12:09 PM

My surgeon and my nutritionist told me not to drink carbonated beverages so I don't. No questions asked. Whether the carbonation stretches your pouch or stoma or whatever, I don't care. I paid my surgeon a LOT of money and I am following what he is telling me to do as closely as possible. Why shouldn't I?

Blueyz · 01-17-2007, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by mssg13marinewife

SO Im the bad one who drinks 1 diet soda a day,but I do stir all the fizzys out before I drink it. I have had no problems and Im only 3 months out. I just couldnt handle it another day w/o. But I did wait until after my 3 month to try a quarter of a soda and I slowly moved up to the hole soda. Sorry, Im bad.-

Ditto, I do the same thing. Diet Coke with Splenda...the only one I can drink and like.

shereeks · 01-17-2007, 02:45 PM

I shouldn't have read this post earlier today. Got me craving and for the first time in 4 months I had a sip of my old friend diet coke and it tasted gooooooooooooooooooooooooood

gottaloseit · 01-17-2007, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by LisaBoston

When I go out to eat, I always order water and never drink it. I feel like I should have something in front of me, and if not the waitress makes faces if I say, nothing, so I have the water sit there...usually the daughter or husband ends up drinking it!

I have had this happen too. Why is it that people try to push food on us and look at us strange if we don't order something to drink. I have started ordering water and just letting it sit too.

gottaloseit · 01-17-2007, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Jennimaria

I can't give it up or I get major headaches

I'm sure it has attributed to me not reaching my goal. It's a hard habit to drop for sure.

I used to drink Diet Cherry Coke, atleast one a day and I stopped the day before my surgery and I have not had ONE HEADACHE since my surgery, not even one. I am so amazed really because I used to get headaches all the time when I drank the Coke but now nothing.

I recently found Minute Maid Cherry Limeade Light in a 12 pack which is really yummy like at Sonic. I don't add cherry juice to it but do add ice cubes and blend for a yummy icee.

Cinerbelle · 01-17-2007, 05:16 PM

I love the Sugar Free Tropicana Fruit Punch, Orange and Lemonade drinks...YUMMY!!