Thread: The good, the bad and the ugly on diet drinks

After drinking diet for so many years now, when I drink a regular drink it taste like syrup to me too. It's amazing how you can get use to something that at 1st you had now enjoy and try the old and can't seem to get one sip down.


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Chris

Originally Posted by Chrisotpherm

After drinking diet for so many years now, when I drink a regular drink it taste like syrup to me too. It's amazing how you can get use to something that at 1st you had now enjoy and try the old and can't seem to get one sip down.


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Chris

I completely agree... Corn Syrup drinks are just gross. I make the switch years ago though when soda actually had real sugar in it

Yes it just taste so much better with diet and not as thick with regular. I guess it's what you like. Tomatoe, tomato.


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Chris

Well..., I've cut back alot, I'm down to alittle less than a 2liter. I was drinking two 2liters+ aday, never drunk water or anything else - just mountain dew. That went on for like 3yrs., but since get'n back into aas & wanting to be healthy(mainly cuz of age), I'm drinking alot less, n still try'n my best to not drink it, but I think I'm addicted. I'm drinking 80-100.oz of water now, n feel way better! But as diet soda goes, I believe it's just as bad, but my fuck friend drinks that diet coke cherry zero, about 2 cans aday, & she says that she's lost weight with it, but I hate the way any diet drink taste!!! It makes me want to puke! But anyway...
I guess if u see a difference in weight, n u like it, it's up to you. IMO, I would just like to stop drinking it completely.

I hear you bro. My bro-n-law did that for two years and eventually had kidney stones. I try to drink at least two gallons of water a day, especially during a workout.


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Chris

OMG!!! Don't get me started on Kidney stones! I've had 3 in the past 10 months!
Those shits hurt like a motherfucker!! That's another reason I want to stop.

Sorry about ur bro n law, I know what he went through, lol! PAIN!

Originally Posted by swollen

OMG!!! Don't get me started on Kidney stones! I've had 3 in the past 10 months!
Those shits hurt like a motherfucker!! That's another reason I want to stop.

Wow bubba. I hate to hear that man. I hope you don't have to experience those again. My bro told me it was the worst pain in his life!


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Chris

Diet soda causes kidney stones too? Hmmm, I really am going to have to quit

Absolutely bro. To much of it can. As long as you are drinking plenty of water you won't have a problem unless soda is your water. Lok


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Chris

i use to drink a fair amount of coke. now it tastes like crap.. :\ like i bought a bottle and threw it out.. or ill water it down like fkn hell idk why JUST tastes shit

I cut all the carbonated and sugary drinks, but after visiting my parents in the states i started drinking sodas like mad again

ok guys, i work outside 10hrs a day 5days a week and every truck on the job has a 5gallon water cooler on it, all i drink from the time i wake up until i get off work is water but i have about a 45min ride home and i normally stop at a gas station and get something to drink.
i hate to spend money on an over priced bottled water and i usually feel like i'm floating and can't stand one more drop of water.
QUESTION IS what is in the coolers at the store that are suitable to have everyday as a water alternative in the morning and evening.
honestly sometimes i either mentally or physically crave any kind of drink with some sugar in it, i'll even get headaches sometimes and if i drink a soda it helps.
during the summer it's worst with the cravings after being outside in 100+ degree heat for 10hrs a day.
are there any flavored waters, any brand or flavor of fruit juice good to drink daily, AND WHAT ABOUT V-8, i love that stuff but is it any good for you for real?

If you had to get a once in awhile fix, I always go with diet ginger ale, seems to be the lightest out of all of the other ones. CHEERS!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Chrisotpherm

I would to know everyone's take on the above and backing behind their opinion.
Are they harmful?
Do you drink and if you do what?
Reason why you don't? And so forth.


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Chris

Well the chemicals in the artificial sweeteners have been shown to cause cancer in lab rats. Of course to duplicate results from the labs a human would have to eat an estimated 50lbs of the sweeteners per day to get the same result.

...that said, yeah, they probably are harmful in some way we don't know yet.

Oh yeah, almost forgot...diet dew does seem to increase my blood pressure. When cutting my BP stays 106/60...right before cutting, it gets up there around 140/80ish.

I do, diet dew...

Why? Because I like it and water gets old.

Why not? When cutting they do limit results. That's the time to stick with plain water.

Always thanks to you V. Good mentor. I owe all reps for sounding off! I agree, I am in an army school right now and it's pretty intense and I love having a ice cold diet mtn dew after the day is done!


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Chris

Originally Posted by Chrisotpherm

Always thanks to you V. Good mentor. I owe all reps for sounding off! I agree, I am in an army school right now and it's pretty intense and I love having a ice cold diet mtn dew after the day is done!


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Chris

So have one.

Remember the 80/20 rule of fitness... I actually follow it more as a 90/10 rule but that's just me. Eat 100% correctly 80% of the time. Then don't worry about it 20% of the time...just try to keep it pretty good during that 20%.

In the grand scheme of things...if you are getting .66 ounces per pound each day of water... what's a 20 ounce bottle of dew going to hurt? Or coke? Or hell, even a beer...perhaps a margarita?

Unless you are cutting for a contest...most likely nothing.

My BP issues come from drinking .66 or more ounces per pound of diet dew. Not a good idea. Hence my recent switch to green tea...and more recently to more water with a soda only at meal time. Oh yeah, and limiting coffee to mornings and workouts.