Zero Sugar soft drinks

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I'm down 20 pounds since switching to the zero sugar drinks. I think the Mountain Dew taste the most like the regular sugar drink. What others rate high with you on flavor?


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When I lost over 100 lbs. I was talking to a professional and they told me that if I did nothing else I should cut out non-nutritional calories.
By this she meant anything that had no nutritional value yet still had calories. One of the biggest non-nutritional items is soft drinks. At that time I worked delivering pizzas and probably drank 3 to 5 Mtn Dews each evening. Switched to water and diet coke.

Now days, I mostly drink water because I hate what coke did with plastic bottles and recycling. But if I drink a soda, it's a coke zero or Mtn Dew Zero, in a can.
 
UNCatTech said:
When I lost over 100 lbs. I was talking to a professional and they told me that if I did nothing else I should cut out non-nutritional calories.
By this she meant anything that had no nutritional value yet still had calories. One of the biggest non-nutritional items is soft drinks. At that time I worked delivering pizzas and probably drank 3 to 5 Mtn Dews each evening. Switched to water and diet coke.

Now days, I mostly drink water because I hate what coke did with plastic bottles and recycling. But if I drink a soda, it's a coke zero or Mtn Dew Zero, in a can.
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Where does the professional stand on the nutritional value of alcohol?
 
I drink Coke Zero basically every day. It doesn't taste all that similar to Coke, but I've gotten used to it.
 
Cherry coke zero is the best.

I also try to drink a lot of sparkling water now. Which technically isn't zero sugar; things like Spindrift technically have very small amounts of fruit juice in them. Miniscule amounts of sugar.

Now, if someone could invent a (good) zero-sugar version of Haribo Gold Bears, we'd really be in business.
 
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ZenMode said:
I drink Coke Zero basically every day. It doesn't taste all that similar to Coke, but I've gotten used to it.
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True, they do not taste the same.

Once you are used to come zero, drinking a coke becomes different.
 
UNCatTech said:
True, they do not taste the same.

Once you are used to come zero, drinking a coke becomes different.
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True. The gas station I go to for my fountain drink, was out of Coke Zero, so I got Coke for the first time in months. It tasted too sweet for me!
 
ZenMode said:
True. The gas station I go to for my fountain drink, was out of Coke Zero, so I got Coke for the first time in months. It tasted too sweet for me!
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For me there is a slight spiciness. A definitive taste that sorry if goes away or becomes less prevalent with high volume consumption.
 
I use the ninja thirsti drink maker. It breaks even at about 300 drinks assuming a 12 oz drink costs you $.75. Probably not a great investment if your family drinks one or two drinks a day or drinks most of those in an office but if you're drinking 5 to 10 drinks a day between your entire family, it pays off pretty quick.

They have a number of flavors in Coke zero, regular Coke, sprite zero, fruit drinks like Hi-C, dr pepper. I can't really tell much difference between theirs and the brand name.
 
I think cherry Pepsi zero tastes good - otherwise I like diet coke - I mainly try to limit my soda consumption to one a day and I'll have a cup of coffee with sugar and half and half - outside that I stick mainly with water
 
The first time I lost 100 pounds, it took an entire week and I was on my back in a hospital bed. When I expressed surprise at this development and told the doctor had had not gotten on a scale in the past week, he gave me "the look" and said, "There's a scale built into the bed." I was on an intervenous diuretic.

The second time I lost 100 pounds--it was actually 160 pounds and I have gained back 20 in the following 5 years--I kept a log of every single thing I ate for three years along with a calorie-in count on what I ate. I also kept a calorie-out count on my daily exercise. The weight loss and calorie deficit were not an exact match, but they were pretty close.

The whole calories in minus calories out calculation was a refreshingly brisk slap of my face by Reality as to why I had gained so much weight. It wasn't genetics. It wasn't the food companies sabotaging their foods with sugar and fat. It was just me eating too much and not exercising enough. Pretty banal simplicity.
 
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05C40 said:
The first time I lost 100 pounds, it took an entire week and I was on my back in a hospital bed. When I expressed surprise at this development and told the doctor had had not gotten on a scale in the past week, he gave me "the look" and said, "There's a scale built into the bed." I was on an intervenous diuretic.

The second time I lost 100 pounds--it was actually 160 pounds and I have gained back 20 in the following 5 years--I kept a log of every single thing I ate for three years along with a calorie-in count on what I ate. I also kept a calorie-out count on my daily exercise. The weight loss and calorie deficit were not an extra match, but they were pretty close.

The whole calories in minus calories out calculation was a refreshingky brisk slap of my face by Reality as to why I had gained so much weight. It wasn't genetics. It wasn't the food companies sabotaging their foods with sugar and fat. It was just me eating too much and not exercising enough. Pretty banal simplicity.
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100 lb in a week? Is that a mistake? Did you get body parts cut off?
 
gtyellowjacket said:
100 lb in a week? Is that a mistake? Did you get body parts cut off?
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Yeah, must have. Right? That level of diuresis would shutdown the kidneys of just about anyone. I've seen 14L of ascites removed from an abdomen, at near 40lbs, and that nearly killed the man due to blood pressure dysregulation.
 
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Coke Zero. I haven't had a regular soda in decades, but it hasn't helped me to lose any weight.
 
uncmba said:
What’s the difference between Diet Coke and Coke zero?
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I had my first Coke Zero recently. It tastes exactly like Diet Coke to me. I don't get the appeal. There was a period of time that I drank Diet Coke everyday, but I just don't like the taste of artificial sweetners. I'm back to drinking one of the mini regular coke cans every couple of days. Give me the real thing (corn syrup that is)...
 
bassydude77 said:
I had my first Coke Zero recently. It tastes exactly like Diet Coke to me. I don't get the appeal. There was a period of time that I drank Diet Coke everyday, but I just don't like the taste of artificial sweetners. I'm back to drinking one of the mini regular coke cans every couple of days. Give me the real thing (corn syrup that is)...
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Coke Zero and Diet Coke are totally different tastes.
 
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