Thinking of giving up soda...

[CRXican]

I used to drink it everyday and for a while would have 32oz for breakfast.

Now I only drink it on weekends

 

[PieIsAwesome]

I tried it for a month. Felt no different so continued to drink soda.

 

[ChaoZ]

Nevar!

 

[speg]

I haven't drank soda on a regular basis for 4-5 years now.

Tip: Dry drinking club soda. You get the same fizzyness of a soda with all the benefits of water!

 

[newnameman]

I've never drank soda.

 

[lyssword]

drink tea, less calories and better for teeth

 

[43st]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: 43st

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: rudder
Soda eats away the enamel on your teeth... I limit it to maybe 2-3 cans a week at most. If you are drinking to fully loaded sugar stuff... 6-7 cans a day is the fast track to diabetus.

Yep, best to drink soda, even diet which still is acidic, with a straw and keep it away from your teeth.

How does that work? Do you put the straw down your throat?

Do you put the straw on your teeth? No. The liquid is sucked in beyond your teeth.

Ah, ok. I've always kept the straw tip right at my lips. I guess if you insert in and past the teeth then you can do this well. I don't think I've ever seen anyone insert a straw that far but you might be onto something. What is it like half the length of the top part of a bendy straw?

It would be interesting to do a dye test to actually see. My wife's crazy grandmother drinks coffee with a straw so she doesn't stain her teeth.. but I've always consider her just plain crazy (for other reasons).

 

[ruu]

Originally posted by: 43st

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: 43st

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: rudder
Soda eats away the enamel on your teeth... I limit it to maybe 2-3 cans a week at most. If you are drinking to fully loaded sugar stuff... 6-7 cans a day is the fast track to diabetus.

Yep, best to drink soda, even diet which still is acidic, with a straw and keep it away from your teeth.

How does that work? Do you put the straw down your throat?

Do you put the straw on your teeth? No. The liquid is sucked in beyond your teeth.

Ah, ok. I've always kept the straw tip right at my lips. I guess if you insert in and past the teeth then you can do this well. I don't think I've ever seen anyone insert a straw that far but you might be onto something. What is it like half the length of the top part of a bendy straw?

It would be interesting to do a dye test to actually see. My wife's crazy grandmother drinks coffee with a straw so she doesn't stain her teeth.. but I've always consider her just plain crazy (for other reasons).

Well, you don't have to put the straw all the way past your back molars. Just put the straw past your incisors and then tense your cheeks so that the liquid doesn't flow freely around your mouth but instead goes in a little channel down the middle of your tongue straight to your throat.

Try pressing your lips together pretty firmly---without rolling your lips in---kind of like you're going to blow a raspberry. The shape your cheeks make when you do this is the shape they have to hold if you don't want any liquid to touch your teeth.

I do the straw + pucker thing if I've just brushed my teeth and then feel like drinking something sugary.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Since my sister gave up smoking due to breast cancer, I agreed to give up drinking soda. I figure we'd both suffer. I quite smoking after 8 years, and it was a hell of a lot easier.

 

[SketchMaster]

I gave up soda for my blood sugar last year, it was a more easy for me to do when I knew I was feeling better without it (If I drink soda I get a major crash form all the sugar and feel like crap for an hour before I can function again). Giving up Cocoa was MUCH harder than soda.

The sugar issue is a real mixed blessing with booze, I get sick from the sugar rush (and then crash) if I drink too much so I can never get stupid drunk. I can only have 2-3 weak drinks spread throughout the night when I get ?wild and crazy? so I don't mess up my blood sugar too much. Though my friends don't mind sinc They know I'll quit way before them and can play DD if need be.

 

[Jeff7]

I mostly gave up soda. I don't care to support the corn industry any more than I need to right now, and I don't care for carbonation in drinks. Kool-Aid for me now. It's kind of a lateral move, or maybe a small step up. It's cheaper than soda, uses less packaging, has no carbonation, uses cane sugar instead of corn syrup, and it has a bit of vitamin C.

 

[SlickSnake]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
I mostly gave up soda. I don't care to support the corn industry any more than I need to right now, and I don't care for carbonation in drinks. Kool-Aid for me now. It's kind of a lateral move, or maybe a small step up. It's cheaper than soda, uses less packaging, has no carbonation, uses cane sugar instead of corn syrup, and it has a bit of vitamin C.

(sneaks cyanide in Jeff7's Kool-Aid)

Jim Jones special recipe! Enjoy! :wine:

BTW, you have to use so much sugar in that crap to make it drinkable it can't be any better for you than soda.

 

[BarneyFife]

I drink maybe 2-3 cans a week. Moderation.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: SlickSnake
(sneaks cyanide in Jeff7's Kool-Aid)

Jim Jones special recipe! Enjoy! :wine:

BTW, you have to use so much sugar in that crap to make it drinkable it can't be any better for you than soda.

That's why I said it's more of a lateral move.


1/64 C per ounce

3/16 C per 12 oz
~42 g sugar

vs 40.5 g in Coca-Cola classic.

 

[DaWhim]

just think of the cost, water is free and taste better.

I never got into soda. I didn't have unlimited supply of soda when I was a kid.

 

[BoomerD]

Not totally, but almost. If we go for fast food, I might have a soda, but that's it.

We haven't had canned soda in the house in almost 2 years.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: DaWhim
just think of the cost, water is free and taste better.

I never got into soda. I didn't have unlimited supply of soda when I was a kid.

Water isn't free.

 

[Leafy]

Originally posted by: rudder
Soda eats away the enamel on your teeth... I limit it to maybe 2-3 cans a week at most. If you are drinking to fully loaded sugar stuff... 6-7 cans a day is the fast track to diabetus.

No, it doesn't. It feeds the bacteria in your mouth that produce lactic acid that dissolves your teeth. What's interesting is that you're not born with the bacteria in your mouth - you get it there from other people.

I drink like 2-3 cans of Dew every day. I stopped drinking soda and went to water for like 3 weeks one time, but water doesn't taste that good - even when it tastes like nothing I still prefer soda. As long as you fucking brush your teeth then you're fine.

 

[SlickSnake]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: DaWhim
just think of the cost, water is free and taste better.

I never got into soda. I didn't have unlimited supply of soda when I was a kid.

Water isn't free.

And it tastes like, well, water compared to delicious sweet fizzy soda.

And I need my caffeine and glycerol ester of wood rosin fix, darn it!

 

[amdhunter]

I went from drinking 2-4 liters a day to nothing.

Sucked for a week and I had a huge headache. Dunno why I stopped, just wanted to. I drink maybe 2 cans a month now, and thats usually because I am eating take-out and they gave it to me for free and I am too lazy to get a glass of water and ice.

I don't really enjoy soda at all anymore, it tastes too chemical now.

 

[zeruty]

Walmart generic brand of Crystal Light FTW!
1.79 for enough to make 12 quarts... no need to add sugar, some flavors are delicious...
0 calories...

 

[Tiamat]

I gave it up for about a year, then I remembered that soda tastes really good, so I drink probably about 1x 20oz per week.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: DaWhim
just think of the cost, water is free and taste better.

I never got into soda. I didn't have unlimited supply of soda when I was a kid.

Water isn't free.

Damn close, at least for drinking.
It's less than 0.295 cents per ounce here.

Originally posted by: amdhunter
I went from drinking 2-4 liters a day to nothing.

Sucked for a week and I had a huge headache. Dunno why I stopped, just wanted to. I drink maybe 2 cans a month now, and thats usually because I am eating take-out and they gave it to me for free and I am too lazy to get a glass of water and ice.

I don't really enjoy soda at all anymore, it tastes too chemical now.

Headache was probably from caffeine withdrawal.

 

[Oil]

I only have a soda now when I need caffeine and don't feel like having coffee

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: DaWhim
just think of the cost, water is free and taste better.

I never got into soda. I didn't have unlimited supply of soda when I was a kid.

Water isn't free.

Damn close, at least for drinking.
It's less than 0.295 cents per ounce here.

I was just being nitpicky.

And that is some hella expensive water. Did you mean 0.00295 cents per ounce?

In Oregon, including taxes and fees, water was about $0.003125/gallon, or $0.0000244141/oz.