Diet coke, coke or none?

Hi there,
(sorry mods, this is in the wrong spot! I thought it was general chat section pls move it if you can)
Who drinks diet coke/pepsi/fanta etc here? Or do you drink regular soft drink (full sugar)?
I drink diet soft drink but only because I am trying to lose weight and I put on weight easily! I probably have 2 glasses a day. My DF drinks about 5 glasses per day of Pepsi Max (diet)..! He drinks too much and I'd like him to only have 1 or 2 glasses per day if any... especially if TTC soon....
Just interested to hear how many of you drink diet and how many don't touch the stuff?

I know those artificial sweeteners like aspartame are bad news..... :doh: but I don't want to put on weight!
I just wonder what damage i am doing to myself by drinking it.... and if 1-2 glasses per day is OK?

I never drink it. Well, not never.. if there is nothing else available I will drink it, but I choose juices or water over soft drinks.
DH drinks it all the time though. He loves pepsi.

At the moment I am craving coke! So I have a can of coke a day eeek! Although I am starting to think maybe I am just addicted as I wake up at all times of the night thinking 'COKE!
I wont touch diet drinks as I have heard the sugar substitute in them are very very bad for you.

We drink Pepsi max DP drinks it all the time i prefer to just have a glass with dinner, otherwise i prefer juices, water or cordial. DP rathers pepsi max he says it tastes better than normal pepsi so thats y we get it!

DP's brother used to drink about 4 2litre bottles of pepsi max a day if not more until his doctor said that is really bad to drink that much even if it was diet! told him to limit himself!

yeah Blanchie me too.. i just have 1 glass at night with my meal.. i don't like pepsi max as much as my DF does...he just loves it. He drinks it instead of water!!

I would love to drink regular soft drink but i am just too scared i'll put on weight or get diabetes... i guess we just have to weigh up the benefits of each i guess hey....
I do like diet coke though.... there's also a nice diet softdrink at woolies/coles called "diet rite" and it's like $1.60 per bottle and it's in pasito flavour and it doesnt taste like its artificially sweetened at all!!!!

Pepsi Max family here too. Mmmm! Although I try to limit myself these days.

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At the moment I am craving coke! So I have a can of coke a day eeek! Although I am starting to think maybe I am just addicted as I wake up at all times of the night thinking 'COKE!
I wont touch diet drinks as I have heard the sugar substitute in them are very very bad for you.

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Oh my gawd...I've been craving Coke but it has to be drunk out of a glass bottle! Weird hey?

When I drink soft drinks I get regular ones, as most/all of the diet versions contain aspartame which I dont/wont knowingly eat.

Plus it makes your body crave carbs which doesnt help me out :(

When I'm trying to lose weight, like now, I dont drink it at all.

Haha it tastes more special out of a glass bottle doesnt it! I like Vanilla coke but even since falling pregnant it now it tastes flat and strange, so I have been sticking to normal coke. Hmmmmmmmm im off to buy one now :)

Coke Zero drinkers here

I have one, sometimes two cans per day - Jen is a shocker for opening cans and having about half of it, putting it down somewhere and forgetting about it

we do the real coke thing - primarily because neither one of us really likes the taste of the diet ones (but then, i won't even drink pepsi!) - i would prefer water most of the tie - usually have coke at night with dinner - but only after i've had at least 2 L of water during the day - and half the time hubby finishes my can (i don't leave them around Abs - i have a hubby to finish them for me!!)

I drink diet softdrink now, mostly because the chances of developing a health side effect from being obese is much higher than the slim chance of developing a side effect from artificial sweeteners consumed in eeny weeny tiny doses. Having said that I probably only have one or two softies a week!

I've heard that artificial sweeteners stimulate your appitite and so you tend not to reduce your energy intake when drinking diet stuff 'cause you eat more. DH is convienced that Nutrasweet causes MS and various other nasty stuff, but you can find articles saying that & others refuting that claim. All I know is I feel icky if I have anything with artifical sweeteners so I avoid them. IMO you're better off drinking water instead.

I'm an avid Diet Coke drinker... and my DH loves coke. We would drink around 1 litre a day. I've drunk DC for as long as I can remember... and I didn't stop when I was TTC and I only cut down a little when I got pregnant. I am sure it had no effect at all on my ability to conceive. I was 37 when I first conceived and 39 this time.... and the odds should be against me - but I fell pregnant very easily without trying too hard. I don't drink tea or coffee or alcohol though, nor do I smoke. (my DH smokes).

I've also heard that low fat milk could impare conception.... but I only ever drink low fat milk - and have cereal every morning. So again; that was not a hinderence to my conception.

Personally I think losing weight would help conception more then cutting out diet coke. I lost about 8kg before getting pregnant the first time. Mind you.. I was 20kg heavier a year later - and still fell pregnant.

on the teeth front...diet coke is MUCH worse than normal coke, has higher acidity than normal coke

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on the teeth front...diet coke is MUCH worse than normal coke, has higher acidity than normal coke

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you think?? I would have thought both coke and diet coke have the same acidity - if not coke having more. I think that stuff could strip paint :lol:
And coke has the added evil of pure sugar which does not help anybody's teeth.

Again, with comparison to me & my DH... my teeth are as strong as nails... where as my hubby's are in shocking condition - needing 4 root canals recently.

As I said before, I think that weightloss helps conception more than not drinking particular beverages.
And when it comes to weight loss - water is the optimum drink - but I just can't stomach water...
Diet coke is better then coke (for weight loss)... and 1-2 glasses a day is nothing to worry about. Even in the "what to expect..." book they said that 'excessive' coke drinking was MORE THAN 1 litre a day! So I wouldn't panic too much with 1-2 glasses a day.

BTW... do you drink coffee as well??
I wonder if excess caffeine has any effect on conception?

I used to be a big Coke drinker. I avoided the diet stuff as I didn't like the taste.

Now I don't drink much soft drink at all. I tend to crave Coke around period time and will either have that or Lemonade. These days if I have soft drink I avoid the diet stuff because of the aspartame.

I tend to drink a lot of water during the day (2.5 - 3 litres) and so that helps holding my sweet tooth and cravings at bay :)

Jodie, I think too much caffiene can affect the swimmers, but not 100% sure on if it is true or just a wives tale.

Abs, check out Coles for the 12 pack of coke Zero in the little half size cans - I find it hard to get through a whole one too.

I drink coke Zero since they brought that out and hardly drink it in winter cause I don't like cold drinks when it is cold LOL, unless it is milk. When it is hotter weather, I might drink a can every two days and when I am on In-Liven I rarely drink it.

We go for the leaded version here....aka normal Coke.

Although before i was pregnant it was always Diet Coke.

But now there is soemthing about ice cold coke that i cant refuse. Also i love it in Bali, skull it really quickly its very thirst quenching.

Heavy coke drinkers here. The diet stuff (especially zero) makes me feel really unwell and gives me bad headaches. Plus I don't trust artificial sweetners. I have 2 glasses a day, only with meals. DH has a lot more. Funnily, when I was pregnant I went off coke completely. Couldn't stand it, weird huh. You have to be careful with diet drinks as artificial sweeteners can actually increase your appetite (apparently for sweet things) also, diet drinks have huge amounts of sodium compared with regular drinks - not good for fluid retention as well as making you drink more.

If your goal is not to put on weight then switch to water.

Soft drinks that contain artificial sweeteners have been found to actually make you put on weight if you consistently use them over a period of years. The chemicals make you feel hungrier and crave food therefore you will end up eating more which will often in turn end up with you putting on weight. They can also cause headaches and dizziness. These chemicals can have toxic affects on your body causing things like rashes & diarrhea (I'm sure you've seen the fine print on the sugarfree gum).

As for the sugared kind. Drinking 3 glasses of it a day can cause tooth decay (due to the acidic nature of soft drink). They contain no nutritional value and only add up your calorie intake, mostly refined sugars, therefore can over time make you gain weight.

All that caffeine is no good, particularly when TTC or pg.

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I know I sound pretty anti soft drink but I used to drink heaps of diet cola in my younger years (hoping not to put on weight, but I did). I stopped drinking it when I read some pretty nasty facts on it. I switched to regular cola afterwards and didn't stack on the weight so I think in me they have about the same effect.

I now don't drink any cola (due to the m/c risk with the caffeine) and I drink only occasional regular soft drink. I will not touch anything at all that has artificial sweetener in it. I think we get enough chemicals in our daily life without drinking them purposely.

In our household we have switched to drinking water & watered down cordial - the kind that has no artificial flavours or colours. I only have to watch my 4yo step daughter after she has ingested a glass of raspberry soft drink and see how crazy she goes to notice what a bad effect it has on her.... yes her father is silly enough to give it to her on special occasions.

Wow, Satya, i didnt' know that caffeine can cause m/c? or increase the risk of a m/c... geez i'm glad i don't drink coffee! I am a tea drinker (1-2 per day, no more) and I only have 1 glass of diet softdrink per day... sometimes none...
I love cordial and i think i might go back to drinking cordial because at least that way i am drinking heaps of water with it (I find it hard to drink 6-8 glasses water per day) ... what brand cordial do you get that has no artificial colours/flavours in it?... thanks
When we TTC (Sept) i think i'll get DF to stop drinking diet cola/pepsi max or at least cut it down to 1 glass per day... as i'm worried what the caffeine/chemicals in it may do to the feotus when its developing etc....

I drink Dr Pepper.. 1 can a day usually.

Though if you wanna lose weight, cut out the soft drink all together. DH did this as he was getting alot of stomach acid and lost a heap of weight!

Even though it says diet, i dont think its that good for you.

ETA... yep during 1st Trimester i didnt touch any caffeine because its linked to m/c. Though youre allowed to have up to 300mg of caffeine a day. After the 1st tri, i had 1 coffee in the morning.. that was it.

Thanks Kell.... BTW Jesse is such a cutie!! ;) you probably get told that alot!! hehe

Hehe thanks Renstar.. he is a spunky boy i must admit, but then im bias ;)

I hardly touch the stuff :)

I would rather have water or a juice, mainly because i just feel like crap after drinking it. Maybe once every 3 months, i'll get a craving for a sip of coke, so i'll buy a can and not finish it :lol:

I think i just got into the habit of not drinking fizzy drinks because i've had really bad eczema for years, and fizzy drinks are very drying for the skin...

Diet coke fan here. I just prefer the taste. I was addicted when I was pregnant, but as I'm allergic to oranges I mainly drink water - it's easier to come by.

I never drink soft drink. We only have water in the house, saves having to monitor what we drink. I have heard very bad things about diet soft drinks, not good for you at all (infact can cause some horrendous complications. Probably worth googling ). I just think that something with absolutely no nutritional value whatsoever, is not a good thing. xo

my hubby and i used to drink soft drink al the time then he realised that he was nhealthy due to chest pains - from then on its vaery rarely that we have soft dring in the house - his parents have to bring their own as i now feel like vomiting most of the time i even smell it. we now go thru about 6 litres of juice a week.

but i have been having coke craving too but keep it down as if has caffene in it. for sweet cravings i have apple and guava juice its just sweet enough to not be sickly - but if you are a heavy soft drink person - try carbonated water - you still get the fizzy sensation but not the crud thats in it ;)

yes soda water + cordial added is really nice! :) I might start getting onto that instead of diet coke/pepsi etc.... glad i only drink 1-2 per day though, not like 1L or more!