@Nightweaver20xx  
Is that just the ones with aspartame?
 
Kidding, of course.

@Nightweaver20xx  
Sucks for my step mom. :P

@Nightweaver20xx  
Kiss the butt cancer.

@Dirty Bit  
Not to mention diet sodas give you butt cancer.  
And nobody wants butt cancer.

@Nightweaver20xx
 
Amen. Diet sodas are the worst.

I will never fool myself like this. Full-sugar cola all the way.

@Silent Wing  
I am supposed to be taking a multivitamin, D3 and citrical but you just reminded me that I actually haven’t in quite a while. Whoops.

@Keith Mowz  
Oh, I see! Do you take supplements for Vitamin C and such?

@Silent Wing  
While true, there’s sugar in so much stuff (Like there’s fat in so much stuff) that trying to avoid obvious sources of it like fruit juice is hardly going to make me hypoglycemic. Especially since fruit (obviously most especially avocados, so much fat) is one of those specific things I’m supposed to avoid on a liver reduction diet.

Don’t mind me, I’ll be over here in the corner with my popcorn, right after I cover for it with my insulin pen because I’m a Type 1 diabetic. ;)

@Keith Mowz  
Well, true. I’m not going to argue with that. Generally speaking though, you need sugar for certain actions to take place in your body. There’s a lot of people that’re trying to push sugar completely out of their diet. It’s a little odd.
 
Whatever the case, moderation is the answer.

@Silent Wing  
Because being overweight also puts you at increased risk for diabetes, so you are also encouraged to reduce your sugar intake. (Especially when there’s family history of the disease.)
 
I do sometimes flavor it up with some crystal light but water’s perfectly fine by itself unless you’re drinking shitty tapwater.

The healthiest thing to drink is plain, room-temperature water. But it’s not very good. The science behind “soda is bad for you” is very poor. There’s a problem: health science funding agencies only pay for studies about 3 years long. And that includes finding people to study, as well as studying them. So studies wind up telling you “what happens after a year,” not “what happens.” And they involve people, which it’s been illegal to keep as slaves for about 150 years. And their budgets are small. A quarter of a million dollars a year sounds like a lot of money, but it’s not a lot to employ thousands of research subjects, and the nurses and scientists to look after them. So studies that use humans rather than chemicals take shortcuts. Like looking at “what happened in the past” rather than “what happens when I change this.” Because you can’t lock up 2,000 people, preferably all identical twins, and give them identical everything, except one twin in each pair has only diet soda to drink and the other twin has only regular soda, and see what happens to them from birth to death. You can’t even afford to give both groups a year’s supply of soda without locking them up. So you pick two groups of people who self-identify as drinking diet soda or regular soda, and watch them for a year or two, usually paying them a little token gratuity for coming in to be weighed a few times a year. And to keep things “the same” you tell both groups not to try to diet or anything.
 
People who self-select as drinking diet soda tend to get fatter over the course of a study because they’re fatter people, and if they’re drinking diet soda they were trying to change that. That’s why they were drinking diet soda in the first place. Which means they’re likely below the weight they naturally gravitate towards. Like all diets, it tends to fail over time for most people, and so most people in that group gain back weight they previously lost, or were trying not to gain. People who are drinking regular soda were never losing weight, so they were already the weight their bodies naturally gravitate towards. So the diet soda group gains weight and the regular soda group does not. Over the span of one year, that’s all you can see. So it looks like they got fatter because they drank diet soda.
 
That’s not to say they didn’t get fatter because they drank diet soda. Absence of proof is not proof of absence. Drinking diet soda might be bad for you, or it might be good for you, but we don’t know. But most likely, if you told both groups to diet if they wanted to lose weight, you’d see no difference. The regular soda group won’t diet because they weren’t drinking diet soda in the first place and so show no inclination to diet to lose weight. And the diet soda group will diet in other ways besides just diet soda, and not gain weight, or even lose weight.

@Silent Wing  
You know what I mean. ^^
 
@Background Pony #A1D4  
We have good filters in my country. :-)

@Keith Mowz  
While that’s an amazing practice, why not switch to flavored water with no added sugar, but only naturally occuring sugar?
 
Commonly known as juice.

I attribute like 40% of my weightloss to eliminating soda pretty much entirely (only allowing myself a glass if we go out to eat, and only once in a while even then.)

@Hebbocake  

 
But fish CRAP in that! Eeeeeewwwww!

@Hebbocake  
But when you drink any type of drink, you’re still drinking H2O.

Im just trying to learn myself to drink water.

@Alkie  
Then she just needs shearing instead? X3

Me, except with hot wings and beer

She doesn’t get fatter, it’s extra fluff!

@gato  
Hmmmm….  
Can I find these alongside the Black Currant Soda?
 
Also, is it more refreshing than a Sprite? I still can’t find anything more refreshing than a Sprite.

I don’t know if they exist where you guys live but Pepsi has a line of non sugar sodas called H2OH here and they are all freaking amazing.
 

 
… Wait, what was this thread about again?

I’m just gonna leave this link right here
 
Low-Fat Foods Are Making You Fatter