Topic: Assuming one softdrink can is equal to 1.5 glasses, how much soda do you consume

[Pugnate]

For the past six months, I've been drinking at least four glasses a day. I probably need to stop.

[scottws]

I'm pretty good with regular pop/soda, but I am a sucker for those green Monsters.  Those are way worse.

[idolminds]

I'm more of a water/tea/milk kind of guy. I don't avoid pop, but I don't drink much of it. Guess I should have done the "Not more than three glasses a week." option, but its more like "Not more than three glasses a month."

[ren]

I put I avoid drinking soft drinks but I'm more of a once a month kind of guy. They're just so unhealthy. After you stop drinking them for a while they'll taste way too sweet to go back to regularly.

[Quemaqua]

Yeah, I don't avoid them exclusively, but I don't drink more than a couple a month.

[angrykeebler]

i drink around 4 cans a day as well but it's diet soda.

[beo]

I pretty much live on diet cola.

[ScaryTooth]

I think I've had one can of soda in the last year.

I pretty much just drink water, milk, or tea. Sometimes juice.

[Pugnate]

Wow... most of you are on the right track.

I assumed since you guys ate out so much, you had your sodas with your meals.

I need to control my addiction though.

[idolminds]

I actually don't eat out all that much.

[ren]

I assumed since you guys ate out so much, you had your sodas with your meals.

Where's all this coming from?

[Pugnate]

Well, I meant fast food.

[ren]

I go cheap with fast food and never get the meal. No fast food place can make good fries and I don't want a fizzy drink. Plus they all give you a cup of water for free if you ask for it.

But in China and now India, it's so cheap to eat out and easy to get healthy fast food that I actually haven't cooked a meal since February.

[idolminds]

I usually don't get a drink at fast food places since drinking carbonated beverages through a straw gives me the hiccups nearly every time.

[ren]

What if you drank non-carbonated beverages through a straw? What if you drank a carbonated beverage without a straw?

[idolminds]

Those work fine.

[ren]

oh

[Cobra951]

8 ounces of Coke at dinner when I'm at my mother's.  They're those little cans.  I don't do diet drinks, ever.  Don't want those lab chemicals they have the gall to call "natural" sweeteners.

I voted "not more than 3 glasses a week".  That's about right.

[iPPi]

I don't drink soda anymore.  I think I had one can of soda in the last 6 months.

[K-man]

I don't do diet drinks, ever.  Don't want those lab chemicals they have the gall to call "natural" sweeteners.

I can guarantee you voluntarily put worse things into your body.

[Cobra951]

Absolute-ly.

[ScaryTooth]

Yeah. I always avoid those artificial sweeteners. Aspartame and such, not good for you at all.

Water quenches the thirst perfectly. 

[idolminds]

"Quench" is a great word. Sounds almost pornographic.

[Quemaqua]

Speaking from past experience, it can be.

[scottws]

You know what is not an awesome word?   "Decadent".  I hate that word.

It's like a girl word they use when they are freaking out about chocolate.

[Pugnate]

haha Scottws I love that word. It is so weird. For some reason it always sounds like some word used in a western.

[Cobra951]

"Bonding" is another girl word, though they usually apply it to males.

[idolminds]

"Bonding" is only good when talking about epoxy.

[Xessive]

"Moist" just sounds positively disgusting. I like it.

[Pugnate]

This thread has resulted in me swearing off softdrinks... at least for a while. Will switch to juice.

I have another question. I know a lot of alcohol is probably worse for you.

Are you guys as careful about your drinking?

[Quemaqua]

Not right now...

[K-man]

I was on vacation last week and by rough estimate i put away over 100 coors lights during that time.  I gained like 8 pounds, haha

[ren]

Kind of. I don't worry about the health aspects of drinking because it's always a social thing but if I drink a lot in a week then I'll try and make up for it the next week by cooking at home. That way I'm only eating healthy food and I make up the money I spent drinking.

[Cobra951]

Absolute-ly.

Maybe that was too subtle.  My poison of choice these days is Vodka.  I have a few shots with tonic and lime just about every day at Sandy's.  Now I have a bottle here too, and it's being put to good use.

[ren]

I thought you were just weirdly agreeing with K-man

[Cobra951]

Absolut - ly.   

[scottws]

"Moist" just sounds positively disgusting. I like it.

Yeah, I knew a girl that hated that word because of a certain visual association with it.

[PyroMenace]

It's mostly milk and tea now but I'll have one every once in a while. I used to drink way too much.

[Ghandi]

I don't usually drink soda, but when I do I like to drink Cheerwine out of a bottle - it's delicious. I'm guessing most people here haven't even heard of it since it's only available around NC.

[Pugnate]

I was drinking 4 cans of coke a day. I think part of the reason is that I live in a REALLY miserably hot climate, so that's partially what creates the temptation.

Also, I gained about 8 pounds over the past few months.

So yea, I tried to ditch the coke, but Coke Light (Diet Coke) tasted like crap to me.

That's when I discovered Coke Zero, which tastes so amazing. It has all the taste of coke without the sugar.

Anyway, I've lost 4 pounds in the past few weeks since switching. Yay.