BG Intervention?

[Not Kuno]

Drink Fresca. No sugar, HFCS, caffine, and it tastes pretty good. I used to be addicted to caffine hardcore but one day I went cold turkey, and when I feel like i need caffine I just drink that.

[drwaffles]

Holy fuck this is exactly like me. I am literally addicted to Diet Coke. I can drink upwards of four 2-litre bottles in a single day... if I don't get it for a day or so I become very tired and grouchy and can't be bothered to do anything at all. The reason I let it escalate to this point is simply because it's not "bad for you" in any way, besides acid erosion of your teeth of course. It contains virtually no calories and the chemicals in it haven't (yet) been linked to any forms of cancer. Similar to the OP, I play FFXI for very long periods of time (often well into the morning hours) and Diet Coke is the thing that allows me to keep going. If I don't have it, I usually struggle to make it past like 1-2am.

But damn, shit's expensive when you get through at least two bottles a day... and it's not nice to be so dependant on something that you wind up being virtually unable to function without it. I considered switching to coffee, but 1. it tastes vile, 2. i don't want discoloured teeth, 3. there's calories in the milk (i can hardly keep it down with milk in it, so taking it black is hardly an option) and 4. whenever I've tried it it doesn't give me anywhere near as much of a lift as Coke.

Hlap.

[Mistress Stowastiq]

I guess I did not understand what your motivation is for stopping diet cola so it was hard for me to figure out what goals you might have in quitting vs continuing.

1. Things that make drinking diet cola bad for OP:

2. Things that make drinking diet cola good for OP:

[Tricen]

Diet soda is the bane of existence. It's bad and you should feel bad. Also, tea. Go to y our local grocery store, grab a gallon of sweet tea and then don't buy soda. I used to drink like 4 cans of mt dew a day, idk how I don't have a kidney stone/diabeetus yet, but I'm glad I stopped. I drink Cherry Dr peppers occasionally. Raspberry tea = nomnomnomnomnomnomnomnom

[melbufrauma]

diet soda is worse than regular soda...

[grantlogan]

Don't try Coke Zero, I love that shit.

[Qalbert]

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[Cesaria]

Flavoured sparkling water? I know I quite often crave something sweet and carbonated and it hits the spot rather than diet coke or whatever.
(can't stand plain water when I'm not at work)

[Kiro]

Enjoy your diabetes folks.

[Draylo]

I used to love soda a lot too, drank like 3 cans a day etc it was horrible. I have since switched to water and I regret EVER drinking that disgusting crap, idk what I even saw in it it tastes horrible to me now. After a while of drinking water you get used to it and even enjoy it, I would say make the switch now before you get any health complications down the road.

[Kaludneisucks]

People who knowingly do things that they know will shorten their lifespan are alright with me. Enjoy as much Cola as you wish.
Or

Try new Diet Willpower, Free with each lifetime.

[Talka]

What about sparkling fruit juices? They have bubbles and taste. :D

[Demosthenes]

Tea and Juice are better alternatives.

[isladar]

Carbonated water, sparkling mineral water, etc. will give you the carbonation fix and sort of trick yourself into getting off chugging down sugar (or aspartame or whatever they hell they use in diet soda now).

[Lbelle]

i love diet orange soda

[archibaldcrane]

Drinking multiple 2-liter bottles of soda in a day is disgusting.

Stop being disgusting.

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[Qalbert]

well played

[drwaffles]

Carbonated water, sparkling mineral water, etc. will give you the carbonation fix and sort of trick yourself into getting off chugging down sugar (or aspartame or whatever they hell they use in diet soda now).

It's the caffeine if anything, really, and that brings problems of its own. There's no sugar involved since it's Diet, so like I said the concern isn't the same as with typical binges which cause you to gain weight. Aspartane is the main worry since it's thought to be linked to shit like MS, Alzheimers and so on.

[Qalbert]

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solves your problem