Diet Soda
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- gratefuldeb67
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Hot tea? The herbal ones taste nice without added sweetening. My favorites are the "zinger" varieties.
Seltzer is good too, as Deb suggests.
I will tell you my story about how tastes change, in hopes that it will help. I used to have a serious soda habit, and thought I would NEVER do without. Well, when I was pregnant I had real incentive to stop drinking caffeine - including my beloved Diet Coke. Well, after my son was born, I nearly spewed my first sip of soda across the room. After 9 months off soda, it tasted absolutely VILE to me - like a nasty mess of chemicals. Haven't even wanted it since.
So hang in there. You can learn to prefer other things.
Seltzer is good too, as Deb suggests.
I will tell you my story about how tastes change, in hopes that it will help. I used to have a serious soda habit, and thought I would NEVER do without. Well, when I was pregnant I had real incentive to stop drinking caffeine - including my beloved Diet Coke. Well, after my son was born, I nearly spewed my first sip of soda across the room. After 9 months off soda, it tasted absolutely VILE to me - like a nasty mess of chemicals. Haven't even wanted it since.
So hang in there. You can learn to prefer other things.
I drink a (regular) soda now and again, but both my daughters quit drinking it over a year ago -- for different reasons. Both quit cold-turkey and substituted water.
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do. Not that the nature of the thing itself has changed but our power to do it is increased." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You are what you eat -- so don't be Fast, Easy, Cheap or Fake."
"You are what you eat -- so don't be Fast, Easy, Cheap or Fake."
I have a diet soda on occasion. After a recent LONG summer of touring the US (20000km), we sometimes found ourselves out of water, but with soda on hand. I would drink it to satisfy me need for liquids. However, in the process I discovered that the only way I can *enjoy* any kind of soda is to have it pretty cold--refrigerator cold with ice. I can't stomach soda much warmer than that (car temp soda was disgusting)--I really can taste the chemicals as someone else mentioned.
Along with all the other suggestions on what *to* drink, you might want to try a few warmish sodas to get the *appeal* of the drink out of your head.
HTH,
Along with all the other suggestions on what *to* drink, you might want to try a few warmish sodas to get the *appeal* of the drink out of your head.
HTH,
Vicki in MNE
7! Yrs. with Vanilla NoS, down 55+lb, happily maintaining and still loving it!
7! Yrs. with Vanilla NoS, down 55+lb, happily maintaining and still loving it!