Diet Coke is the devil. It tempts you with its delicious flavor and fizziness and ZERO CALORIES and NO SUGAR, and then BAM. You gain 5 pounds after going on your craziest Diet Coke kick yet.
The thing that Coca Cola forgets to mention when marketing Diet coke is the ridiculous amount of sodium it contains. I drink several glasses/cans/bottles of Diet Coke each day and in one 12 ounce serving you have 40 mg of sodium. I am at a risk for developing high blood pressure (Darn you genetics!), so I'm supposed to limit my sodium intake to 1500 mg per day. If I drink 7 Diet Cokes in one day (not that uncommon unfortunately) that's almost 19% of my daily recommended value!
I could never COMPLETELY cut out Diet Coke. It has been my favorite drink since I was a wee one, and will probably be my favorite drink until I die. I've tried to drink a caffeinated tea in the morning instead of one can and some decaf tea before bed instead of a decaf Diet Coke. I haven't kicked my DC habit completely though (and like I said... never gonna happen), and still drink 3 or 4 during the day. I'm hoping I can cut back to one with lunch and one with dinner over break and be drinking water and tea the rest of the time.
PS: If you're curious about why I didn't mention Aspartame, it's because I've decided to to not worry about it. I've seriously been drinking Diet Coke as my soda of choice since elementary school, so if the cancer from that is going to kill me it is gonna get me regardless.
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