Originally Posted by
Dust Devil
I never drank sodas for pleasure because they generally taste like crap, but I drank them with every meal because I liked the sweet contrast to whatever I was eating. I never drank diet because those tasted worse. In an effort to reduce caffeine, though, I quit all sodas and started carrying around little bottles of lemon flavoring to squirt into a cup of water. These are artificially sweetened, but I don't notice the off-flavor like I did with diet sodas. I lost a few pounds, but nothing major. I guess I ended up removing from my diet the equivalent of 2 cans of coke and maybe the equivalent of sweet tea. My blood sugar fell, though, so that was bonus. I'd really like to give up the two cups of coffee I drink per day, because I use loads of sugar, but I really like coffee.