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Recomend me Diet Sodas and Drinks
Kyougu
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So in an effort to live healthier and lose weight, I gave up cokes and sodas about 3 months ago, among many things. Things have been going great (Almost 30 pounds so far), and I been staying away from lots of stuff I use to eat. The one hitch has been sodas..though I only drink diet now, and definately not as often as I use to.
Problem is, all I been drinking is diet coke and diet dr. pepper, which are the ones I most commonly find. Anyone have any suggestions for good diet drinks? It doesn't even have to be sodas, I just get tired of the plain taste of water sometimes.
Problem is, all I been drinking is diet coke and diet dr. pepper, which are the ones I most commonly find. Anyone have any suggestions for good diet drinks? It doesn't even have to be sodas, I just get tired of the plain taste of water sometimes.
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Mostly I drink flavored mineral water - Crystal Geyser has a berry-flavored mineral water I really like, and both that brand and Calistoga have lime-flavored mineral water that's pretty good.
I also like mint water, but that stuff's expensive (~$2 per bottle). Unsweetened iced tea works, Tejava is my favorite pre-bottled brand. If you're okay with brewing your own iced tea, there's a lot of stuff you can do - I sometimes brew a big pitcher of half and half green and peppermint tea. You can always drink black coffee, too. Or just throw a lemon or a lime wedge in a glass of water.
If you need to get a little bit of sweet, there's the Honest Tea brand of iced tea which is lightly sweetened (around 30 calories per bottle). Not ideal, but much better than the 200-odd calories that come in a bottle of Coke. Also, stevia is a low-calorie sweetener that you can buy at Trader Joes if you want to add a little bit of sweetness to iced tea.
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Used to drink Gatorade Rain but found out it had phosphoric acid (which the other Gatorades don't). That was my favorite type so I stopped drinking all of them.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
Now I just try to cut back.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
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anyways... I heard diet drinks weren't good for you in massive quantities.
yeah, maybe try tea. sweeten your drink however you like, but you're either using artificial sweeteners, which I hear you should limit your intake of anyways, or sugar, which you'll have to stay at moderate levels so you're not back up to drinking the equivalent amount from a soda.
if you don't like the taste of water, try doing different things with it. even just refrigerating it can change the taste. water filter. heck. the tap water does different things at my mom's house just a dozen blocks away. (it turns orange when it dries up in shallow pools. very strange.)
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Tea is nice. The fruity-ass ones can be made hot and then cooled, so its like cordial without all the sugar.
Though, if you can help it, green tea is really better for you.
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or try mixing up a batch of Open Cola, and use less sugar or maybe an all natural sugar substitute like Stevia.
I am a connoisseur of common diet sodas, so I will say this: their use is, like wine, depends greatly on the situation.
Diet coke has a sharper taste than diet pepsi, while diet pepsi tastes sweeter. Before I developed issue with coke as a company, I found myself drinking diet coke before noon, and diet pepsi after, at work, with great success. Diet coke is like the coffee of colas, while pepsi is more like tea.
Diet. Mt Dew products are harder to handle than other diet products, generally, since you have some conflicting chemistry. Diet Code Red, I find, is much easier to drink than Diet Mt. Dew. Whatever you do, avoid drinking it warm, as it tends to mess with you a lot more.
Diet. Dr. Pepper is pretty good, and fits somewhere between coke and pepsi for sweetness/sharpness factor.
Diet Root Beers are usually pretty good, and you're not going to miss the sugar at all. Do note that diet Barq's, while delicious, has no caffeine, unlike regular Barq's.
I can't say much on the Diet Lemon/Lime drinks, except that they feel more like additives than drinks themselves, like seltzer water or something.
I highly recommend the flavored diet colas that are out right now. Some of them taste mildly like soap, but the diet cherry products are good, and the weird new flavor combinations coming out are pretty decent, and worth a try.
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Also: Sodas barely have any sodium anymore.
Ramen has 1320mg per package.
A can of diet soda has 35-40mg
I really love San Pellegrino sparkling mineral water. It has the bite of a soda and the cool refresher of water with *gasp* about 30mg of Sodium per 750 mL bottle. Really nice. I also love letting Earl Grey soak in for a while in a steaming cup and then drinking it straight (no sugars or cream.) Worth a try. Just make sure the water is cold and the tea is hot and you're golden.
Seriously. This stuff is awesome.
I like Diet Coke with Lime. If you can't find it, just put a bit of lime juice in your Diet Coke.
It's the sodium benzoate turning into benzene that'll kill you.
Diet soda helps keep me from being insanely fat. So I'm pretty happy using it.
Anyway, I was wondering: how good are diet sodas in a glass bottle, I.E. Stewart's and brands like that?
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I can't even stand the taste and feel of soda anymore and it makes me sick after it hits my stomach but I think that's a blessing. That being said, I understand fully how much it sucks getting sick of drinking plain water all the time - especially when you see so much tempting and tasty stuff all around you at all times (at least here in fat-ass America). Tea is nice with just a little bit of sugar for sweetness but I love flavored water too though as long as it doesn't have aspartame. Even without that, it's still nice in moderation because of the sweetners they use.
I just think about how much better I feel drinking only water (99% of the time anyway) and that kind of helps cramp the taste for sweetness right away.
So after drinking just water a lot, I got a hankering for a sweet refreshing drink I could have regularly, and it just so happened a massive health food store called Whole Foods opened up by my house. So now I go for bottled smoothie drinks like Naked Juice, Happy Planet, Sambazon etc. Fruit just is good for you if you can find the really good, thick, pulpy stuff made of actual fruit...not just like the sugary fruit cocktail water. Anyway, just my random experience with drinks for what it's worth, if anything
Edit: Oh man Izzes are damn good Geod
I know it's monotonous, but acquiring a taste for large amounts makes life amazingly convenient.
I was going to recommend Stewart's Diet Orange, an amazing drink, diet or no. Stewart's is a little more pricey but it's a good once in a while thing.
There are lots of good teas. Mint herb tea is good.
Maybe I'm a little over paranoid, but i try to stay away from it.
Also some people are known to be allergic to some of the things in diet soda.
As far as Juice goes, yes, Most of it is bad for you (as in, they pack in lots of sugar and/or corn syrup). But, the good news, is that you can find Organic Juices (Veggie, Fruit or otherwise) that are fairly good... just make sure to read the label.
Or, do your own juicing. That stuff is so yummy. It's expensive though... to mass up a bunch of fruit just for one glass... it's so good though.
Tea is suppose to be good for you... both Green Tea and to an extend, Black Tea. I'd suggest you brew your own... some bottled tea is packed full of Corn Syrup, sodium and who knows what else.
Also coffee... again, suggesting you brew your own so that you know what's in it.
In regards to water: Do this trick:
Turn on water to cold.
Wait till the water gets really cold.
Your suppose to do this in older houses to "flush" any built up metals and/or "junk" out of the pipes (since the water was "sitting" in the pipe). I don't know if that's true, but it taster better after that.
also a water filter can help the taste a lot (depending where you live). Make sure to do some research, not all water filter are built the same.
Also Beer. I like a good beer. Or wine. They are Theoretically suppose to be good for you (Red Wine at least) in moderation.
One thing I really like is this:
Boil Hot Water.
Squeeze an ENTIRE lemon into glass.
Pour in Hot Water
Put a teaspoon (or two) of honey into glass.
Drink.
Mmmm.
It good... because it's just lemon (Vitim C FTW) and Honey.
It also (supposedly) helps bile production and bowel movements
It is REALLY tasty, but doesn't have many cals (about 30 I think)
There is something "sciencie" with the reaction of the boil water and cold lemon juice... I don't know what, but they say it helps digestion. After a big meal I can say it makes me feel better.
No; no, you're not. The HFCS in most sodas is basically liquid death. The aspartame in most sodas doesn't do shit to you, unless you're phenylketonuric. If you're not phenylketonuric, your body just turns it into phenylalanine, which is an essential amino acid, i.e. you need it to live. This is one of the stupidest fucking things I've ever seen posted on this board, right up there with "you should try mixing ammonia and bleach to clean shit."
There have been ridiculous numbers of studies done on aspartame, both long-term and short-term effects. None of the valid ones have come up with shit for it being bad for you, unless you're phenylketonuric.
I get it in the 1-liter size, which is the biggest. They're usually around $1 a bottle, but sometimes on sale for 75 cents. It's the best non-caffeinated soft drink I've ever found. I hate drinking plain water except under very specific circumstances, so Clear is the main way I make sure to get enough fluids.
In terms of caffeinated soft drinks, I usually get Diet Mountain Dew, Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi with Lime, or any of Pepsi's "Jazz" line.
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Again, this really wouldn't be everyday drinking..just when the urge hits, to help me from turning to regular coke.