Diet Coke!!!

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Diet Coke!!!
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Mon, 09-27-2004 - 4:38pm
Okay, I think it has to stop. I have to give up the diet coke. I think I tend to eat more calories when I'm drinking it, partly because it makes other things taste so darn good. I probably have a 4-5 can a day habit-now that's more diet coke than I had in my entire pregnancy. Now, I gave it up because I knew it wasn't good for the baby, so why is it okay for me to drink?

I'm going to try to get down to one can a day for now and then go off completely (except for special occasions).

Wish me luck! Diet Coke is truly my drug of choice, I have such a problem with it!


Erin

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Registered: 05-08-2003
In reply to: oonagh96
Mon, 09-27-2004 - 4:41pm
Good luck! I tend to have one in the afternoon, right after everyone gets home from school. I do think it makes me want something to eat, but I'm fighting it tooth and nail!

I love the ones w/Lime

Dawn

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Registered: 01-04-2004
In reply to: oonagh96
Mon, 09-27-2004 - 4:48pm
I used to be the same way, Erin! I would drink Diet Coke with every meal (except breakfast). Now I usually only drink it when I eat out. I slowly started replacing Diet Coke with water at my meals. Maybe start with one meal at a time (or whenever you usually have one) and gradually replace it with water (or whatever you want to replace it with). Good luck!

My problem is I seem to be addicted to sugar-free mints lately. I think I'm using them as a substitution for eating when I'm at work. At least it's better than having a candy bar lol!

~~Linda

~~Linda

 

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Registered: 08-31-2004
In reply to: oonagh96
Mon, 09-27-2004 - 10:14pm
Im not addicted to diet coke, but I do drink Diet Coke with Lime. I think Im over the real thing...I normally only order it if we are out to dinner and even then..sometimes I would prefer something else.

Good luck to you Erin :)You could have a worse addiction! Let us know how you are doing :)

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Registered: 07-28-2003
In reply to: oonagh96
Mon, 09-27-2004 - 11:17pm
You could do what I did when I was on WW and getting water instead of sodas... I'd allow myself one "baby soda" (the 8oz cans) a day, with dinner. On a weekend, watching a movie or something I might have another one, but hey, it's 4oz less for each can!

There are lots of those baby sodas out there now, all of the coke products including diet, not sure about the flavored diet cokes though. Also Pepsi is selling them now, and Dr. Pepper/7up!

So, that's an idea for you (:

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Registered: 07-27-2004
In reply to: oonagh96
Tue, 09-28-2004 - 12:26am
Here's something I found online about concerns some people have about diet sodas. I'm not saying I agree with all of this, but I thougt it was interesting nonetheless. Good luck Erin! ((HUGS))

DIET COKE

RUINED MY LIFE

by Anonymous

24th April 2002

Hi my name is XXXXXX,

I have been typing my story so many times. I will try to get it all in. I have drank diet sodas since I was a teen. My mother was always on diets and did not want us drinking so many sodas so she only bought diet. I acquired a taste for diet sodas so much, that a regular one tastes nasty to me.

I joined the military in 1985. when I was stationed in Germany my diet coke consumption went way up. Because I was having bouts with insomnia. I never woke intime to make it to the chow hall. My breakfast --which we called breakfast of the champions, was a diet coke and a candy bar. I became more and more addicted to diet coke.

My sleep was getting worse. I was also having pains but thought it was from the wok I was doing. I was in my early 20's so of course I was invincible. I would have dreams my hands were chopped off only to wake thinking it true because they were so asleep I could not feel them.

I went to the base doctor. who sent me to another base for a specialist. The specialist said I probably had carpal tunnel. He was Japanese his accent was hard for me to understand. He said he wanted to confirm it with a test where a needle was placed from my wrist to my shoulders. I refused the test --being that I am needle phobic. I tuffed out the pains. At night it could be so bad it would bring tears.

My personality started to change from the pain. My roommate and I got into such a bad fight we could no longer live in the same room. I moved off base. My next assignment was Xxxxxx. My diet coke consumption was still very high --still drinking them for breakfast. My weight was getting very difficult to stay under control. Depression set in. I finally got discharged on returning home. And I remember making the trip with cases of diet coke in my car.

Life was still not easy I fought with my mother and moved. I lived in Xxxxxx, Florida for a year. I did not drink so much diet coke my weight was good. Jobs were not so I moved back. I learned to be a pet groomer --animals my passion.

My diet coke consumption started going up again. My carpal tunnel came back with a vengeance. I found a doctor that did not charge me much because I did not have health insurance. I was confirmed with it in both hands. He gave me cortisone shots in both hands. By 1993 my pains started getting worse.

I had gotten my dream my own horse ranch. It was a dumpy barn but the lease was affordable. I had horses by them and that was my life passion. My weight went crazy. I went over 200 pounds. My boarders wanted a soda machine so I got one and kept it filled since I had the key I drank diet coke 24/7. Pains started getting real bad. I went badly hypoglycemic.

I could not have a stove in my apartment in the barn because of fire worries, so I sometimes missed meals and diet coke filled me. I could no longer handle the pressures of running the barn. I gave it up to one of my boarders. I had many problems there. I stayed with a friend for a while. She had a soda machine too --so I kept up with my habit.

The grooming department I was running offered health insurance. I grabbed that opportunity as fast as I could. I was only 31 by that time but felt like I was 80. things did not work out at that grooming department so I borrowed money from my father and opened my own shop.

I got my own insurance. My health started getting much much worse. The convenience store in my building supplied me with as many diet cokes I could drink. My consumption was from waking time until I went to sleep.

Now I was having problems with more pain besides the carpal tunnel. My sciatic was acting up before. I had found a boyfriend. I had gotten pregnant and had a miscarriage. The relationship lasted 6 months. My sex drive by this time is close to zero. Why --I would go years without dating.

I would have and still do chronic urination. I would wake in middle of night to go to bathroom my feet would be so painful I would fall down. My vision would blur and I would get headaches. I thought for sure I had diabetes. the doctors everytime would say I was normal.

I remember crying many times at the doctors office that I wanted depespratly to know what was wrong with me so I could get it fixed. I contemplated suicide many times. to escape the pain and suffering. I would pray to God he would just let me die.

The doctors started treating me like a hypocondrac. Specialist with an HMO would take so long to get the appointment, by the time I got to see them the severity f the symptoms would be gone. My hair started to get thin. I was getting this weird rash on my face that was simply ugly. My weight was to the point of gross for me.

At least with my low sex drive it was not as devastating but I thought life would be easier if I were not so alone. My brother got me a computer. With it I began to search for what was wrong with me. I would only go to the doctors so many times and take their there is nothing wrong with you so many times.

I found MS that matched what was wrong with me so another bout of bothering the doctors. I had an MRI and a brain scan --they said no. Its kinda sick but I was hoping so much I had it so they could fix it. They did put me on some of the drugs they gave MS patients. They would work until my body got use to them.

With me working with dogs and being around dogs with lymes disease, I thought --aha! .....Well, my test came back negative.

My depression got worse the depressiuon pills did not make me feel better. My business was always teetering on bankrupsy. My credit getting worse begin that I just could not pay all the bills. I tried diets... so many things: chiropractors, an acupuntuist, even a south American witch doctor with crystals; Reki, anything that promised to make you feel better. Bread of life also got a lot of my money that should have went to bills ...on noni, nasty aloe juice. I would try anything and everything to make myself feel better.

One chiropractor, next to the bread of life was the only person that gave me relief but at that time I was on a health kick and was drinking diet sodas from bread of life. It got too expensive and too time consuming. I even had colonics, massage; my mood swings made it hard for people to work with me so many times, that I ran my business by myself.

With all my pains I was very unhappy --then I get a bill in the mail. My health insurance went too high for me to afford. I had to drop it. Life was not good. I was also getting cysts. Had one removed from my tail bone and one from my face. The doctor from the MRI said I had cyst on my brain, but they were not a problem.

Well, I just survived. I gave up on doctors and just tried to cope. I knew I could not groom much longer so was striving to find something I could do with animals. I was given pet parrots that people did not want. So I started breeding parrots. I had some hope. I did not know how many more years I have before I am crippled or dead.

Then I met a man in a bird chat. We hit it off over the computer. I was going to meet him in another state so I went on a crash diet. On my diet, I was to drink no sodas. I faithfully followed it. I lost over 25 pounds. My pains went away. My moods were better. And I got a bit of sex drive back. I went to visit him. He loved me and said he did not want me to suffer on a diet anymore, and just drink water.

So at his house I started drinking diet coke again. I came down with a bad headache. I did not put two and two together. I never thought it could be diet coke. My man moved here. He drinks a lot of regular coke. So again I was buying cases of diet coke for me. My pains came back real bad. I lost my sex drive. He tells me I am just plain mean.

Our future plans and parrot breeding hobby is the only thing keeping us together. 3 days ago I got a e-mail from another bird chatter about aspartame. I have been off aspartame for 3 days now.

I am taking the test. And I am not going on a diet either. I will even drink other sodas --I just will not drink aspartame.

One other symptom I forgot is... forgetting! LOL. I have noticed since I have been back on heavy diet coke consumption my typing and spelling stinks. My memory is a strain. I am joining this group --not only for support, but also, if this is true --if it has been diet coke all these years --hindering my life; keeping me single, unhappy, childless and broke? I swear to God. I will do everything in my power to sue diet coke. for it has ruined my life.

XXXXXX

P.S. --I also cough a lot.

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Registered: 04-02-2003
In reply to: oonagh96
Tue, 09-28-2004 - 2:41am
Good luck. You're a stronger woman than I. I can't give up diet pop. (Lately it's been Safeway Select Diet Orange Soda. LOVE IT.) I have cut back a lot, though. Buy six-packs instead of a full 12-pack, or buy the little mini cans of Coke (I've seen them at Target).

Remember that Diet Coke really doesn't have all that much caffeine, so cutting back shouldn't make you feel *too* bad.

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Registered: 10-02-2003
In reply to: oonagh96
Tue, 09-28-2004 - 6:23am

and Diet Coke truly is a drug ... my doctor advised my uncle, who had a habit like yours, but probably a little worse, to stop drinking it when his HIV progressed to Aids ... he didnt listen to his doctor


well when he got real sick, 3 different doctors told him that the Diet Coke almost single handedly was responsible for weakening his immune system and he died within a few months


that stuff is horrible for you .... give it up and dont look back!!

 
 
 
 

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Registered: 09-24-2004
In reply to: oonagh96
Tue, 09-28-2004 - 8:56am
That is one of the most whacked out urban myths floating around. How funny! I certainly hope no one takes you seriously.

Here are some more coke myths

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cokelore.asp

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Registered: 07-28-2003
In reply to: oonagh96
Tue, 09-28-2004 - 9:03am
Aspartame is the reason I won't drink diet sodas - besides the taste, that is, which I no doubt would get used to over time. My dad drank diet sodas almost like this anonymous person, and he developed tinnitus (ringing in the ears) which at times can grow so loud it's like to drive you insane.

I love my soda, and I'd rather have real, natural sugar than unnatural aspartame which can cause all kinds of problems. Or water, of course, hehe.

- Yav




Edited 9/28/2004 9:05 am ET ET by yavie

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Registered: 10-02-2003
In reply to: oonagh96
Tue, 09-28-2004 - 9:54am

<<That is one of the most whacked out urban myths floating around. How funny! I certainly hope no one takes you seriously. >>


how is the effects of apartame on the human body an urban legend when it has been proven for how many years?

 
 
 
 

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