What would removing soda from your diet do for you?

[timtofly]

By "soda" you mean sweet, sugary, fizzy drinks?

I stopped drinking that crap years ago. Now even the thought of it gives me goose bumps. It's basically liquid sugar with just the right amount of acids to dissolve tooth enamel. I've never had a tooth cavity and I'd like to keep it that way for as long as possible.

Yes,

Soda affects my breath more than it does my teeth. Of course I only started to consume after I gained my weight. I used to drink milk when going out to eat, but for the money soda was "better". Probably should have switched to water, but that is all under the bridge now.

 

[Integral]

How much does a 12-pack of Coke cost?

I get a gallon of milk for <$4.00. A 12-pack of Coke is 1.125 gallons; I can't see it being cheaper than the milk. Of course this applies more for "what you drink at home" than "what you drink when you're going out to eat."

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I drink maybe 2 or 3 sodas per week. I never drink soda at home owing to the fact that I simply don't stock it.

 

[Cutlass]

How much does a 12-pack of Coke cost?

I get a gallon of milk for <$4.00. A 12-pack of Coke is 1.125 gallons; I can't see it being cheaper than the milk. Of course this applies more for "what you drink at home" than "what you drink when you're going out to eat."

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I drink maybe 2 or 3 sodas per week. I never drink soda at home owing to the fact that I simply don't stock it.

These days ~$4.99 per 12 pack is the stock price. But they are always going on sale. So typically 4 12 packs for $10 to $14 depending on what sale is on that week. Anywhere from $3-5 per 12 pack.

 

[dIZZyBlIZZy]

How much does a 12-pack of Coke cost?

I get a gallon of milk for <$4.00. A 12-pack of Coke is 1.125 gallons; I can't see it being cheaper than the milk. Of course this applies more for "what you drink at home" than "what you drink when you're going out to eat."

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I drink maybe 2 or 3 sodas per week. I never drink soda at home owing to the fact that I simply don't stock it.

At Publix right now $3.19 for a gallon of 2% and $2.89 for a 12 pack of pepsi. Plus, you can use milk for a lot more than drinking, though in some of those cases I like to use buttermilk.

 

[CaptainF]

I used to drink a good amount of soda until I got into high school, when I stopped cold turkey.

It makes a huge difference. I'd say that I've lost a little bit of weight, but I just feel much better and more energetic. Even diet sodas make me feel poopy, due to all the carbonation and artificial chemicals. I put only about a teaspoon of sugar into my coffee, and I drink my tea unsweetened. The only times I drink soda nowadays is when I'm chasing shots of liquor or using it to make mixed drinks, neither of which happen very often, less than once a month or so.

 

[Skwink]

I drink a couple Diet Cokes a day. I know about all the chemicals and stuff in Diet drinks, but I've got my money on a cure for cancer sometime.

 

[Narz]

Personally, I never drank much soda but cutting it out will probably be good for your teeth & your bones. IIRC, the acidic nature of soda messes up the mineral balance in your body (probably describing it wrong).

If I even drink fruit juice now I feel, well, out of sorts. I don't drink anything sweet.

I usually drink 3 sugared colas a day. And cutting that would probably help me lose weight. But I've found by trial and error that when I do cut it, I become more depressed and lethargic. It really does have a consistent impact on my daily mood. I've tried it on several occasions to switch to sugar free colas. So I'm not willing to cut it out.

You ever tried switching to eating a piece of fruit instead or anything?

Could be the combo of sugar & caffine, you could try fruit juice & black tea maybe?

 

[dIZZyBlIZZy]

I drink a couple Diet Cokes a day. I know about all the chemicals and stuff in Diet drinks, but I've got my money on a cure for cancer sometime.

So do the people posting in the smoking thread. But I thought both Coca-Cola and Pepsi quit using nutrasweet in the diet sodas?

 

[NickyJ]

I never started drinking soda, I dunno why I would.

This.

 

[Skwink]

So do the people posting in the smoking thread. But I thought both Coca-Cola and Pepsi quit using nutrasweet in the diet sodas?

Sorry, I guess I forgot to put a .

 

[JollyRoger]

I got hooked on sodas when my metabolism meant it really didn't make a difference. That is not the case now. If I could just cut sodas from my diet, I would probably lose weight.

 

[Patroklos]

Are you not a fan of the diets? While I can tell the difference diet dr pepper is pretty close to the diesel version so it was so hard to switch.

 

[Mise]

Yeah, I mean, I can tell the difference between Pepsi Max and regular Coke, but that doesn't mean Pepsi Max tastes bad... I think people have unrealistically high expectations of sugar-free drinks that they simply don't have with other things. I prefer blondes to brunettes but I'd still bang both.

 

[JollyRoger]

Are you not a fan of the diets? While I can tell the difference diet dr pepper is pretty close to the diesel version so it was so hard to switch.

I can certainly tell the difference, though it is not as marked as it was when I was younger. Beer is another story - while I could drink just about anything when I was young, there is now an end of the beer aisle that I certainly avoid because it is now undrinkable.

 

[Eat_Up_Martha]

Yeah, I mean, I can tell the difference between Pepsi Max and regular Coke, but that doesn't mean Pepsi Max tastes bad... I think people have unrealistically high expectations of sugar-free drinks that they simply don't have with other things. I prefer blondes to brunettes but I'd still bang both.

Not if the brunette looked the way diet coke tastes.

 

[Mise]

Diet Coke sucks, yeah. Pepsi Max is great. Coke Zero too.

 

[say1988]

Not if the brunette looked the way diet coke tastes.

An easy way to make Diet Coke taste great, drink some Diet Pepsi.

It took a while but I have acquired a taste for Coke Zero, except from fountains where it is the empitome of disgusting. Diet Coke is better.

 

[Mise]

Hmm, maybe it's different in North America. The widely accepted rankings in the UK (by which I mean, of the 5 or 6 people I know that also drink sugar-free fizzy Cola drinks) are Pepsi Max #1, then Coke Zero, then nothing else because everything else sucks. Diet Coke tastes like water to me, and I have never, ever seen anywhere that sells Diet Pepsi.

 

[emzie]

I drink a lot of Diet Coke.

When I was 14 I got braces. Despite brushing my teeth twice a day, I ended up with cavities on the front of my front teeth, from sugary coke sitting around where the braces attached. At the time I drank perhaps 2 20oz bottles (591ml) a day. After the braces came off I was forced onto diet drinks. Now, any non-diet soda tastes like syrup to me.

It is much too expensive for my mother to buy me things such as milk or juice, even water. Therefore I am restricted to a solely cheap soda diet whenever it comes to beverages. Removing soda from my diet and replacing it with a better beverage would likely cause me to lose quite a few pounds and a noticeable health gain.

Before you chastise me for not reading all your posts in this thread, I finished it. I don't want the Mise treatment.

Okay.

That is a completely inane statement. There's no where in Canada where it's unsafe to drink municipal water. Even after outbreaks like Walkerton faced (by the way, you being okay with Walkerton's "pretty good" water makes me wonder if you even knew what happened there in 2000 and if you had any solid reason to mistrust water supplies in the first place) the chance of getting sick from contaminated tap water is negligible. Whereas drinking No Name soda has real health impacts to you... and is something on the order of 3,750 times more expensive (99 cents / 2 litre bottle = 49.5 cents / litre; water in Ottawa is $1.32 / thousand litres or .0132 cents / litre).

 

[_random_]

I drink a lot of Diet Coke.

When I was 14 I got braces. Despite brushing my teeth twice a day, I ended up with cavities on the front of my front teeth, from sugary coke sitting around where the braces attached. At the time I drank perhaps 2 20oz bottles (591ml) a day. After the braces came off I was forced onto diet drinks. Now, any non-diet soda tastes like syrup to me.

Syrup is delicious.