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Is my body allergic to water?

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sounds like caffeen withdrawl

if i go a day without coffee it happens to me

its what happens when you have been drinking 16+ cups a day for the past 9 years 🙁
 
Originally posted by: Luthien
I do that like twice a week and flavor my water with other things as well because like others have said water by itself tastes like crap after a while especially with the smell and after tastes it has being treated etc. Nothing wrong with that water it just hard to drink sometimes.
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Do you have a faucet mount water filter? A pitcher filter?

The taste really changes after you've filtered out the chemicals and metals.
 
hooray...on drinking water. keep it up! like everyone's saying--u're going through soda withdrawals. u'll be fine in a few days! whatever u do, just don't give in to the cravings. 🙂
 
There was something making people sick in NYC's water a couple days ago. At least it was somewhere in the city(probably somewhere like the bronx 😛), I just saw a couple seconds of the report teling people to boil their water. You might of pcked the worst time to start drinking tap.

I was just at Hunt's Point yesterday. Man that water stinks.:disgust:
 
omg, you are a drug user! lay off the drugs. 😛

i stopped drinking soda in spring '05 and stopped taking caffeine last fall. i'm much better now. 🙂
 
You changed your diet and are probably going through caffiene withdrawal to an extent.

The peeing shouldn't be much different unless you are drinking more water.

Drinking water is healthier, get used to it.
 
i gave up diet soda for lent. and for the first two weeks or so i craved it bad. but now i got it out of my system i only drink it on the weekends now.
drinking alot more water or crystal light now or diet ice tea from turkey hill.

youll get over it. its hard. i craved diet cherry coke bad. keep up at it.
 
Originally posted by: aCynic2
Originally posted by: Luthien
I do that like twice a week and flavor my water with other things as well because like others have said water by itself tastes like crap after a while especially with the smell and after tastes it has being treated etc. Nothing wrong with that water it just hard to drink sometimes.
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Do you have a faucet mount water filter? A pitcher filter?

The taste really changes after you've filtered out the chemicals and metals.
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Yup. Tap water by itself is generally safer and better for you than bottled water...filtered tap water...even better.

Diet soda make you fat because they make you crave sugar.

You drink the soda, your body thinks you just ingested 27-30grams of sugars, so it releases insulin to prepare. Then the soda digest and of course, there is no sugar, it was sugar-flavored. So your blood sugar gets messed up, and you get massive sugar cravings. This was in my first year psych book in a section about physiological responses ffs. Should be common knowledge.

Sugar cravings will not help you diet, thats for sure.
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That is absolute nonsense. If your body released insulin in response to diet soda, you wouldnt get fat...you'd pass out.
 
Originally posted by: BD2003
That is absolute nonsense. If your body released insulin in response to diet soda, you wouldnt get fat...you'd pass out.
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I don't know about that. If it causes an insulin spike, then it'll take glycogen from the blood, store in muscle and fat, and use liver glycogen to cover the blood depletion. Certainly, not an ideal state, but I don't think it would cause a black out.

Provided you eat plenty of fruit in the day, the liver is well stocked.
 
Dude, you gotta ween yourself from caffeine.

use drinking a soda as a reward for drinking half your daily allotment.

The excessive peeing will diminish as your body gets used to having the correct amount of water.
 
Originally posted by: amdhunter
Originally posted by: Aikouka
allergic to water... never heard that one before 😛.

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Your water could be unclean (depending on where you get it from).
You could be used to the caffeine. I know when I stopped drinking a lot of Mountain Dew, I used to feel awful at times without the high dosage of caffeine from drinking a lot of it 😛.
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Poland Spring at work, and NYC tap @ home. I literally feel naseous as it goes down...lol. I am sure I can get over it. I could really use the extra money every week for gas money instead.
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Poland Spring water always makes me feel nauseous. I refuse to drink it. Perhaps you have the same issue.
 
Originally posted by: aCynic2
Originally posted by: BD2003
That is absolute nonsense. If your body released insulin in response to diet soda, you wouldnt get fat...you'd pass out.
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I don't know about that. If it causes an insulin spike, then it'll take glycogen from the blood, store in muscle and fat, and use liver glycogen to cover the blood depletion. Certainly, not an ideal state, but I don't think it would cause a black out.

Provided you eat plenty of fruit in the day, the liver is well stocked.
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Insulin spike = glucose in the blood goes down, liver will convert it to glycogen/fat. Glucagon will need to be released to counteract the insulin, causing release of glucose back into blood and lowering insulin levels, which will certainly happen if youre normal. (its a self regulating system)

Which is all besides the point - diet soda isnt going to cause an insulin spike in the first place. Unless perhaps you drink so much *regular* soda, which does require insulin to manage, that you have a pavlovian response at the sight/taste of any soda (even diet) to release insulin...which may occur, but it certainly isnt going to make you fat - you need actual sugar/calories for that to happen, and diet soda just doesnt have it at all.
 
Originally posted by: OVERKILL
Like Nuro said, it's withdrawal.

Your body is so used to being given liquid sugar and caffeine that it's going to take some time for it to get used to water.


Do a search on the benefits of water on google and see how important it really is.



Good luck.
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there is no sugar in diet pepsi. do a search on the benefits of diet pepsi on google and see how important it really is. good luck.

 
Originally posted by: OverVolt
Originally posted by: slag
Originally posted by: DVad3r
It's good for you, keep going. Diet pepsi actually makes you fat, I can't believe you were drinking that all this time. If you want to look/feel better about yourself (and I assume you do from your other gf thread) then cut out all pops all together, or limit it to like once a week when your having a nice meal and want to drink some, but DONT DRINK DIET!!! It has ****** in it that actually makes you fatter.
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Diet pepsi has ZERO calories.

It does not make you fat. People in their mind think that since they are taking zero calories from that soda, they can eat another burger or another slice of pie, or much larger portions, etc. The soda doesnt do it, its their faulty sense of reasoning.
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Diet soda make you fat because they make you crave sugar.

You drink the soda, your body thinks you just ingested 27-30grams of sugars, so it releases insulin to prepare. Then the soda digest and of course, there is no sugar, it was sugar-flavored. So your blood sugar gets messed up, and you get massive sugar cravings. This was in my first year psych book in a section about physiological responses ffs. Should be common knowledge.

Sugar cravings will not help you diet, thats for sure.
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i'm having trouble finding any credible sources to back up your argument... can you please cite them.
 
Originally posted by: BD2003
Which is all besides the point - diet soda isnt going to cause an insulin spike in the first place. Unless perhaps you drink so much *regular* soda, which does require insulin to manage, that you have a pavlovian response at the sight/taste of any soda (even diet) to release insulin...which may occur, but it certainly isnt going to make you fat - you need actual sugar/calories for that to happen, and diet soda just doesnt have it at all.
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I know, but there are some people that believe the body reacts the same to just the idea or the taste of things.

EX: If you drink a diet soda, you're body still reacts the same and produces insulin in response to the sweetness. Sort of paavlovian conditioning at an instinctual level.

Obviously OverVolt is one of those. He probably believes the moon landing was a hollywood mock up as well.
 
Diet Pepsi:

Carbonated Water
Caramel Colour
Phosphoric Acid
Aspartame (124mg per 355mL, contains Phenylalanine)
Sodium Benzoate
Caffeine
Flavour

RDV per 355mL:

Calories: 0
Fat: 0g, 0%
Sodium: 30mg, 1%
Carbohydrate: 0g, 0%
Protein: 0g

Not a significant source of saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, fibre, sugars, vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium or iron.
 
Originally posted by: aCynic2
Originally posted by: BD2003
That is absolute nonsense. If your body released insulin in response to diet soda, you wouldnt get fat...you'd pass out.
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I don't know about that. If it causes an insulin spike, then it'll take glycogen from the blood, store in muscle and fat, and use liver glycogen to cover the blood depletion. Certainly, not an ideal state, but I don't think it would cause a black out.

Provided you eat plenty of fruit in the day, the liver is well stocked.
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Your blood sugar would plummet if that was the case. Which either make you extremely tired, pass out, or kill you.

 
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