21 Ways to Make Your Diet 100% Easier

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I Like this post. I might post it on the fridge. Soem great info and some good info in the reply posts.
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Yea the diet soda thing has been a hot debate.

I've grown up with Diet Pepsi as a comfort food and I find it keeps my hunger down too. I simply don't buy it for the home. If I have a 2 liter at home I'll drink the whole thing in 2 days but if I just buy a can 2-3 times a week at the store I find that helps me keep portion control in check. It's also more of a treat that way :)
 
I'm all about my diet soda. I would say if you drink a soda a day and if adding or taking the diet soda away doesn't really make a difference then I wouldn't sweat it. As I always say weight loss is 50% science, 50% art and 100% real life. If it doesn't make much difference in your life then who cares what a study says?

I don't put all of my faith in studies, I just put it into what has worked for me in real life.
 
Diet Drinks

I have 2 kids 4 and 6 when I was trying to lose weight after the birth of my son my doctor told me to start drinking diet soda When I came home from the hospital I was 138 I went from 138 to 131 from switching from diet to regular. One of the reasons I started on diet soda because my doctor told me to drink diet instead of regular. Now all I drink is diet So it might not be healthy but it helps keep me in a size 3. I am 5'4 and although I was not big 138 pounds to me was a little to much because I was always around 105 to 110 pounds even after my first son . When it comes to overeating alot of times its emotional or stress for me I eat a little more during that time of the month because of hormones. We are all different and what works for one person might not work for someone else ex. My husband eat around 11:00 at night but he never goes over 175 and he is 5'10 he wears a size 32 but it might be different for someone else and they might pick up weight So find what works for you.
 
iamfire said:
Morning,

I adore my diet sodas; they haven't yet caused any food desire increase in me. I'll often mix half and half with water (cold water) to increase the liquid (but the taste is still more or less the same).

Data points,

Barbara
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This is not a bad idea! good thinking.
 
Isn’t it great that there are so many theories about weight loss. Some miracle fruit or some miracle tea. I believe why people claim that they lose weight because of these is because of the anti oxidants. “The role of antioxidants play in weight loss is that they provide the body with the nutritional support it needs to keep it strong and energized during the fat burning process.” LINK REMOVED this doesn’t mean that it burns fat. There is no miracle pill or miracle fruit or miracle tea.
 
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Some of the details in these tips are really interesting, I loved reading them (i.e. really thinking about our craving vs. stuffing our faces until we find it). I agree with some comments that were made concerning studies vs. "real life." What we have to remember is that scientific research studies are conducted in very rigorous ways, trying to remove as many variables as possible and limiting the effects of 'external' factors.

Sooo many things can make these tips true or false for different people: not being in a research study (hurray placebo effect!), environmental stressors, genetics, history of dieting (too much dieting apparently slows down your metabolism), neurotransmitters (lack of serotonin, often associated with depression, can make some people feel more hungry)...

As far as diet soda is concerned, I have heard that when you ingest sugar substitutes such as aspartame, your body is expecting to receive sugar energy, and when it doesn't, you crave sugar. Personally, I find that having a diet soda when I already crave sugar is actually helpful, and I don't crave sugar afterwards. I also have some after what I feel to be a 'normal' portion of food, and it helps me stop eating when I know I should stop but that I keep going anyway... so it helps me not to overeat!

However, for others, tasting something sweet might make them want more sweet, so they reach for sugary foods? Either way, I think it's a trial-and-error thing.
 
After moving out of my mum's house and starting to shop and cook for myself I realised one of the biggest issues with me and food is that I'm always the most tired in the early evening (I tend to pick up later, no matter how long I've been awake, which is pretty annoying) and I just feel really lazy and want quick, bad food and loads of sugar. So now I do as much as possible to make cooking in the evening easy for me. I cut up all my vegetables and put them in tupperware boxes in the fridge because that's always something I really can't be bothered to do when I'm tired. I always make an extra portion of a meal and put it in the fridge or freezer for another day. It really has made a big difference to the number of times a week I bother to cook. Before I'd always be so tempted to go buy something bad.

Diet coke really helps with me too because I get mega cravings for bad food during 'deadline week' and exam times. Now instead thinking 'it's only a week or 2, I can let go a bit' (then going crazy and eating loads of junk!) I stock up on diet coke and other diet fizzy drinks and have them instead.
 
People are always hating on diet sodas; talking about how bad it is, how hungry it makes you, and speaking of it almost as if it's worse than normal soda. Saying things like "if you're going to drink it, you should just drink the real deal". I gotta ask, though.. :confused: When you say diet soda is bad, do you mean it's bad to drink it every day (as a replacement for water), or do you mean it should be avoided all the time?

Cause I totally understand that it shouldn't be a replacement for water or other healthy drinks. Personally, I never drink soda during the week. But when Saturday comes, and my friends want me to come over and watch a movie... Can't I drink a few glasses of diet coke then? Is it really that bad? Diet coke has 0 calories. I understand that it has certain things in it that isn't exactly healthy, and that it's still bad for your teeth etc.. It's not like I think it's some sort of miracle drink. But really - when you're trying to lose weight, isn't diet soda a good option to normal soda? Tell me exactly WHY I should then drink normal coke instead, when I think diet coke tastes exactly the same?

Just seems like every article, every statement I find about diet soda is negative... Everywhere "experts" are trying to make me throw it out of my fridge, but I'm going to keep buying it, because it's good. And I'm NOT sipping water on a Saturday evening with my friends, there goes my limit :)
 
krakefjes said:
Cause I totally understand that it shouldn't be a replacement for water or other healthy drinks. Personally, I never drink soda during the week. But when Saturday comes, and my friends want me to come over and watch a movie... Can't I drink a few glasses of diet coke then? Is it really that bad? Diet coke has 0 calories. I understand that it has certain things in it that isn't exactly healthy, and that it's still bad for your teeth etc.. It's not like I think it's some sort of miracle drink. But really - when you're trying to lose weight, isn't diet soda a good option to normal soda? Tell me exactly WHY I should then drink normal coke instead, when I think diet coke tastes exactly the same?
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This is the dilemma. No one can give you the best answer, the fact is, diet sodas can and do damage teeth, the more you drink per day, the more they cause damage. Full sugar coke also damages teeth.
Diet drinks also trick your body into thinking its getting sugar, it doesn't get sugar so it sends out more cravings, you drink more diet coke- see the cycle? for some its better not to have any at all.
Fizzy drinks also have whats called phosphoric acid which leeches calcium from your bones. You wont notice till its too late and your in chronic unbearable pain and needing a new hip/spine/leg as the bones which naturally decline with age have gotten far worse due to you damaging the calcium that was in them when you were young.

No one is going to give you an answer, its your choice, you need to make that choice no one else, but at least arm yourself with all the right data first so you know what the dangers are.

And for what its worth, I drink diet lemonade but also make sure I drink water. Night = diet sodas, day time = plain water. And I had a blood test, I have low calcium, my bones are already affected. Like I say, your choice.
 
There are many good tips amongst them....like eating more veg food and leaving colas!
this needs to be done on a priority basis.
 
Thanks for the reply summer, I didn't know that thing about calcium. I know that it's my choice, I just wanted to know the reason why diet sodas are so often criticised. I've never experienced the extra craving for sweets that everybody is talking about, but I only drink small amounts when I first decide to drink it. I'm pretty sure I'm getting enough calcium through my diet, though, I drink skimmed milk and eat lots of vegetables :)
 
The diet soda thing is pretty individual - some people do much better with zero diet soda, some people are perfectly fine drinking a couple cans a day.

I've cut out the majority of diet sodas myself and switched to unsweetened ice tea, but really I didn't feel like I 'had' to. I got a free bone density scan some time ago and despite drinking several cans of soda a day when I got it done, I had higher than normal bone density. (Of course, I'm also addicted to cheese so I'm sure I get a good amount of calcium there). I also don't feel any hungrier from fake sugar.

There are potentially risks from any 'low calorie' sweetener, which is another reason people shy away from diet sodas. My decision to go primarily with tea was more about avoiding the more processed ingredients and less about being afraid that aspartame would eat my brain from the inside.

Here's a Popular Science article on the bone healthy - from what I've seen from this and a couple other articles, having diet sodas once a week isn't all that likely to wreak havoc on your bones.
 
I hope that diet soda thing is as BS as some people here are noting that it is.
I drink very little outside of water, diet pop, and beer.
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I read all these tips and these are very useful and having great information on the Diet. These 21 tips can help many people because they are very simple and easy to adopt. If you are trying to lose weight then dieting is very important. Thanks to share these useful resources.
 
I then pack a tomato and some lettuce with my work lunch, along with at least 3 pieces of fresh produce and 1/2 cup of quinoa or rice, and the sandwich thaws as the day goes on. We have a toaster oven at work, so I toast my half sandwich in it and put the other toppings on. Very satisfying and makes lunch packing very easy.
 
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