I need to get off Diet Coke...

**Bulls Beers** · 01-30-2012, 10:57 PM

I really need to stop drinkin this stuff. I've been reading more and more that diet coke is so bad for you. The aspartame alone is poison, never mind all the other crap in it. I don't drink a ton of it, maybe one to three cans a day. I drink a lot of water and workout almost everyday. It's those few cans a day that gets me. What do you guys drink other than water and Beer?? I need to find something else. I was drinking Gatorade, but too much sugar. I guess if it's not water, it's bad. I need to find something better than diet coke.

As I'm writing this, I'm drinking fresh can of D coke...ahhh!! good. It's like I'm addicted..

KayaBrew · 01-30-2012, 11:13 PM

One to three cans a day sounds like a lot to me. I really like soda (or as we call it, "pop"), but I try to only have one or two cans a week. I know I'm in the minority on that. I work with a guy who has three or four 20 ounce bottles of Mountain Dew a day!

**andysim** · 01-30-2012, 11:24 PM

I drink a 44 oz -50oz diet pepsi/coke a day. I can stop at anytime. I'll stop when I want too. You can't make me stop. Leave me alone.................................... I'm still in denial.

I'll stop......tomorrow.

bierhaus15 · 01-30-2012, 11:24 PM

When I gave up drinking soda, I switched over to seltzer water (cans). No calories or sweeteners and it is just as refreshing. Costs a lot less too. I can't stand regular soda anymore, tastes too sweet.

**Bulls Beers** · 01-30-2012, 11:31 PM

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Originally Posted by KayaBrew

One to three cans a day sounds like a lot to me. I really like soda (or as we call it, "pop"), but I try to only have one or two cans a week. I know I'm in the minority on that. I work with a guy who has three or four 20 ounce bottles of Mountain Dew a day!

Man, I wish I could have only one or two a week. I was reading an article that said, Mountain Dew has brominated vegetable oil—a toxic flame retardant—to keep the artificial flavoring from separating from the rest of the liquid and pretty hazardous stuff. I guess I can stop drinking DC, but I get so sick of water all the time.

KayaBrew · 01-30-2012, 11:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Bulls Beers

Man, I wish I could have only one or two a week. I was reading an article that said, Mountain Dew has brominated vegetable oil—a toxic flame retardant—to keep the artificial flavoring from separating from the rest of the liquid and pretty hazardous stuff. I guess I can stop drinking DC, but I get so sick of water all the time.

I mostly like Cola. And a good root beer here and there...

**neovox** · 01-30-2012, 11:34 PM

I switched from soda to iced tea years ago. I drink iced tea or water in most situations where I would have had pop in the past.

**beowulf** · 01-30-2012, 11:38 PM

I thought the obvious choice would be coffee.....tea too sometimes. Nothing like an assortment of brewed beverages.

**Bulls Beers** · 01-30-2012, 11:42 PM

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Originally Posted by beowulf

I thought the obvious choice would be coffee.....tea too sometimes. Nothing like an assortment of brewed beverages.

I've never tried coffee or tea. I'm a soda drinker. When people like my wife get their coffee in the morning I'd have a D coke.

Firebat138 · 01-30-2012, 11:45 PM

I try and drink lots of water also, but I have two mountains dews a day...other than that, its a glass of tea for dinner or water... beer sometimes during a grill day... no coffee for me.... does my stomach something terrible