Diet Coke!

After reading in the papers about how Diet Coke doesn't actually help people to lose weight. I thought I'd ask the people on the Weight Watchers Mens Board what their views were. The general concensus seems to be that Diet Coke probably doesn't really help, some people found that they still felt hungry after drinking it with a meal (as I often do).

Now, I don't drink tea or coffee, so I've been drinking about 6 cans of Diet Code a day for as many years as I can remember, so the stories about the harm that the Aspartame (artificial sweetener), that it contains, can do are quite worrying. I've also been having trouble sleeping recently, which I have put down to an excess of caffiene. Because of my sleep worries, I recently switched to the caffiene free variety, but 2 days later (after no caffiene  at all) I sufered from a terrible headache that lasted all day! After reading up on caffiene, I came to the conclusion that this was caused by the withdrawal symptoms! following this I've embarked on a gradual switch to caffiene free DC by alternating the 2 varieties (making sure that I don't have any caffiene after 18:00).

After all of the above, I've decided that I really should stop drinking Diet Coke altogether, so I now plan to complete the switch to caffiene free as soon as I can and then find alternative refreshing drinks, such as freshly squeezed orange juice (0 ProPoints apparently), water, various cordials etc.

The other thing people have said is that, if there really is no alternative to a fizzy drink, I'm probably better of having a normal coke and accounting for the points! Obviously it wouldn't be good to have 6 cans of normal coke a day as that would be 24 ProPoints, or breakfast AND lunch!

Incidentally, I do seem to be sleeping a little better since reducing my caffiene intake. I woke up at 05:45 this morning, which is really quite late for me!