On Sep 10, 2:23 pm, Jay Honeck wrote:
A single can of regular soda (AKA: Liquid Candy) per day will cause
you to gain several pounds per year. Most people consume far more
than one pop per day, and I could easily weigh 50 to 60 pounds more
than I do now (as, sadly, many acquaintances do) if I had not swore
off the stuff in the 1980s.

It's a healthier alternative to sugared soda, IMHO.

I'd agree with you. If you're going to be drinking a couple of liters
of carbonated beverages a day, then make it the diet kind.

I drink a couple of liters a day. If I wasn't a Type 1 diabetic I
probably would be drinking a couple liters of the real stuff a day,
and well on the way to being an obese Type 2 (on the other hand, maybe
not, because I'd be a commercial pilot instead of sitting infront of a
monitor damn near 24/7, but that's another whinge for another day).
Sure, it'll probably give me cancer or something, but at least I'm not
a humungous tub-o-lard who can only vaguely remember seeing his feet
some decades ago.

I quit every couple of years. After a couple of weeks the withdrawl
subsides. But a month or two down the track I'm so freaking sick of
plain water, I go back to diet coke (or coke zero). As a Type 1
Diabetic, I figure I'm entitled to this one small vice to make up for
all the other crap.