Quit soda altogether, now what? - Diet & Nutrition Message Board

grassroots311 · 01-30-2005, 10:41 AM

I eat healthy for the most part, EXCEPT for the fact that I've always drank a TON of soda. I decided to quit cold turkey, mainly because of the high sugar content. I never really paid attention to the labels on drinks, but I've started to notice that most of the non-soda beverages (juice, punch, icea tea) have almost the same sugar content as soda

Because of that, I started drinking diet soda, but I'm concerned about the effects of aspartame. Anyone have some good suggestions on what to drink out there? It seems like it just comes down to the lesser of two evils

Jogaholic · 01-30-2005, 11:15 AM

I used to drink soda a lot until I started running and gave it up. It's been 3 years and I don't miss it at all! Truthfully the cravings for it do go away and after a while it isn't even worth it when you drink it - it just doesn't taste good anymore. I guess diet soda is a better choice if you have to have any at all, although aspartame doesn't have a good reputation either. You're probably just craving the carbonation - in that case, try carbonated water instead for a while and see how that goes. In response to other drink suggestions, go for the water, your body needs it - flavored water like Propel and Fruit2O are pretty good. And if you get tired of plain water try adding some lemon wedges to it. You're right that juices have a lot of sugar so IMO those should be dranken sparingly, but one of the better choices would be orange juice. Lots of vitamin C and calcium. Good luck!

veggie girl · 01-30-2005, 12:03 PM

I make my own 'soda' by mixing some organic apple concentrate with selzer. Its great!!

Although, I don't really drink it that much coz i got rid of my soda craving.

grassroots311 · 01-30-2005, 05:25 PM

Well the thing is I didn't turn to diet soda because I still crave it. I turned to it because its the only thing that doesn't have sugar. I feel like what's the point of drinking juices if they have just as much sugar as regular soda...

veggie girl · 01-30-2005, 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by grassroots311

Well the thing is I didn't turn to diet soda because I still crave it. I turned to it because its the only thing that doesn't have sugar. I feel like what's the point of drinking juices if they have just as much sugar as regular soda...

But juice doens't have 20 ingredients all of which were created in a lab!