sudsmcgee

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Filter some water into a corny keg and carbonate it to 20 PSI. Almost free seltzer water!

Pumbaa

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4 liters (give or take) a day of Diet Coke . . . but it beats the 4-5 pots of coffee a day I was drinking

In the summer I like lemon aide but with the diabetes I cant do sugar and aspartame is the only artificial sweetener that doesnt mess up my guts (laxative properties if ya know what I mean)

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gratus fermentatio

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Diet anything tastes sooooooo NASTY!
Drink more beer. If you can't drink beer (at work for instance) try iced tea with a bit of lemon & no sugar. If you need the fizz, try seltzer water, mineral water, or tonic water.
Regards, GF.

Homercidal

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Switched to diet pop again due to cutting back on sugar and starches. Now I drink about 2-3 cans a week if I'm lucky (or unlucky). Usually if I'm very thirsty at work, or if we go out to fast food and I order a meal.

Usually I drink a large cup of coffee in the morning, then beer when I get home and beer for dinner. Sometimes water in between.

As much soda as I drink now I could probably get off the diet stuff and just drink the regular. I have read articles that claim that the sweetness in diet soda may in itself help keep the body from losing weight. I know several people who only drink diet pop and it hasn't helped them lose weight. And some who are diabetic who drink it all day long.

I'm no scientists, but that sound like a shtload of artificial sweetener!

sudsmcgee

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Yep, simply consuming something sweet causes your body to release insulin due in part to what's called the vagal insulin reponse. What happens next is that your body is confused by the lack of sugar it sees after drinking a diet coke. Hyperinsulinemia soon sets in, which then results in hunger. This hunger typically causes a person to eat more calories than they would have consumed from a normal soda/pop. This is how diet soda can actually cause weight gain.

I know quite a few people who lost weight simply by giving up diet soda.

TyTanium

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Incidentally, this is one reason (of many) why I started homebrewing. I found myself drinking too much soda and couldn't "kick the habit". With a fresh supply of homebrew, I pretty much stick to beer and water and can (mostly) stay away from juice & soda. Occasionally at work I get a craving for something fizzy, so those LaCroix waters are passable.

Sure, a beer may have similar (or more) calories than soda, but at least I know what's in it. +1 for avoiding ingestion of unpronounceable chemicals at all costs.

andysim

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I have been pop free for 10 days. Taking it day by day.

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Trip Queens Brewery
Clayton, NC
Brewing better than average beer since February 2009

Bottled - News Years Day Belgian Barley Wine, Bugs in The Light Milk Stout, Value Place BIAB Belgian Pale Ale, Value Place BIAB Cream Ale
Kegged -Rummy Ruski Imperial Stout

Bernie Brewer

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Years ago I drank at least four 20oz bottles of Coke a day. Not the diet kind, but regular Coca Cola. One day I just stopped. To this day I cannot remember why. But quitting the soda caused me to lose, at the time, 35 pounds. I will drink a soda occasionally, maybe 1 or 2 a week if even that. One thing I have noticed since I quit the soda is that I now have ZERO tolerance for caffeine. If I drink a second soda I am just climbing the walls and am jittery as all hell. I just can't handle it. I will NEVER take an Excedrine. I would rather have a headache. Now I drink mostly water. Sometimes juice or milk.

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I like to squeeze the nickle until the buffalo craps-mt rob

"Why don't we get drunk and screw?" Jimmy Buffett

Beerrific

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Carbonator carp, lemon juice, grated ginger, stevia extract, filtered water, empty 2L soda bottles....
Diet, all natural ginger ale. Simple and cheap.