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I drink way too much pop for my own good. Technically it's usually about a can a day, sometimes two or none

Heh. In college, I considered soda to be a "healthy alternative" to everything else I was drinking. :lol

 

Nowadays it is pretty much water and coffee for me.

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Two months ago I quit drinking Coke........as well as any thing with refined sugars in it. Heavans to Betsy, I feel about a trillion times better. I'm fairly certain refined sugars were making me insane.

You may be right -- if not insane, perhaps diabetic. My blood sugar was driven over the edge by sugary soft drinks.

 

Congrats on making such a drastic change. I could never give up the fizzy stuff altogether, so I've been a drinker of diet soda for many years.

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I could never give up the fizzy stuff altogether, so I've been a drinker of diet soda for many years.

I'm trying to go cold turkey on soda--or at least make it only a very occasional drink. My problem is that I habitually seem to be always drinking something, so if I have soda* around, I tend to drink more of it than I should. (* same with beer, but lets not get too crazy about giving that up) Diet soda seems to give me, ummm, "pooping issues" and/or headaches, so for me it is regular or nothing.

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You may be right -- if not insane, perhaps diabetic. My blood sugar was driven over the edge by sugary soft drinks.

 

Congrats on making such a drastic change. I could never give up the fizzy stuff altogether, so I've been a drinker of diet soda for many years.

 

Thanks!

 

I also quit the evil whites........white rice, white bread, white potato, white sugar.....along with any sort of processed foods....and added more fruits, nuts and beans to the diet. I call it the "Caveman Diet". I've lost more than 12 lbs now and wanna lose 12 more........I'm shooting for my age 23 weight.

 

Just call me Mr. Natural.

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Shortly after cutting out soda entirely several years ago, I came to the realization that it was not so much the flavor that I missed, but the carbonation.

 

So, with the exception of the occasional root beer (Maine Root only - http://www.maineroot.com/index.php), the closest I come to soda is Polar

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Yes – this La Croix bubble water you speak of sounds very similar to the seltzer manufactured by the Polar people, only much more hoity toity, pretentious and, dare I say…effeminate?

When you girls finally figure out that your fizzy water doesn't need any kind of namby-pamby flavorings, natural or otherwise, let me know.

 

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Actually, I get it for about $5/12-pk. It's less hoity than that Polar dstuff, I bet. I believe "La Croix" means "street urchin" in French.

 

Polar is one step removed from generic store brand, and, has a fucking polar bear on its label

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I will never understand the entire love fest with diet coke some people have. I get that it is probably WAY better for you than standard cola, but that unique diet cola taste is horrifying to me (though i like moxie...hmmmm) I'm lucky that I don't drink soda too much so when I do I spring for the real stuff ;)

 

Oh, Cream Soda is the king of the roost, though I always forget that it exists so I hardly ever buy it at the grocery store

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I will never understand the entire love fest with diet coke some people have. I get that it is probably WAY better for you than standard cola, but that unique diet cola taste is horrifying to me

This is where Coke Zero comes in: same og Coke taste (really!) with less crap in it.

 

Rule # 5! Reported!

That's not baiting, it's a fact. Pepsi drinkers are oddballs.

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Pepsi drinkers are oddballs.

Agreed.

 

I'm a die-hard Diet Coke fan dating a straight Pepsi shooter. Somedays...it gets rough around here :pirate

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For me, it's Diet Pepsi, iced tea, or coffee for the most part. And anyone that tells me Coke tastes better than Pepsi is just proof that they have been hoodwinked by a masterful marketing campaign over the course of their entire lives. Because it really isn't even close. (Especially the diet versions.)

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