Probably not, but that's because diet 7up is awful. Most of the lemon-lime beverages don't translate all that well into diet, in my experience, except for Sierra Mist, and Diet Sierra Mist is almost never available via the fountain, although I do buy several when it goes on sale at the grocery store.

There's no question caffeine is part of it, but I think the effervescence is the biggest part of it. I can get a similar pleasure from sparkling water with a twist of lime.

I don't want to imply that it's all I drink. I drink about 32 oz a day on average, except when I'm extra broke and then I don't waste money on it. I drink a quart of water before breakfast and another couple of quarts throughout the day, and I always have cold iced tea in the fridge. And every few months I indulge in a little wine, beer or hard cider, which I have to limit due to the meds I take.

I admit diet soda is not the healthiest thing out there but the pleasure to unhealthy ratio is so favorable that it provides a lot of happiness for me with no guilt. It's even good for my depression, as long as I consume it early enough in the day that it doesn't interfere with my sleep.

There's no research that I'm aware of that links diet soda to weight gain in any sort of causative way, although I think you could argue that consuming a gallon of it a day would probably be correlated with other diet choices that are probably not optimal for maintaining an appropriate body composition. For obvious reasons, though, the latter is difficult to conclusively prove.

Time to get a different doctor.

MLYLT,

Accidentally forgot to answer my questions.

VR,

I highly recommend SodaStream!

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck.

Glad to be back. Just ramping up.

No, they don't. It just might appear that way to a depressed overweight person.

What questions? I answered some, not sure what you are talking about.

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I don't think that's how science works...

(which was El D's point as well)

I'll look tomorrow and see what month it was that I lost 13lbs and you can see my logs itt if I put them all in that month. I might not have been logging here or revealing my weight because of the bet with 27.

I had all of my data on Spark People (4years worth), and they have implemented this stupid feature that if you change your goal weight it wipes your data and you can't get it back.

Sprite Zero is pretty good.

I do like Sprite Zero, but it's not 96oz a day good.

It's obviously the caffeine that's driving the high consumption. I probably average 30+oz of diet energy drinks a day. Exactly about the same caffeine as 96oz of Diet Coke.

I've just watched "What the Health", and I'm almost convinced that I need to switch to a vegan diet.

When my groceries run out next week, I'm going to try eating only veggies, fruits, rice, oats, and fish for a week and see how I feel.

I'm really low on calories today. After breakfast this morning I just didn't want anything to eat.
I have been manic high this week. Last night I slept from 10:00pm-1:00am, was wide awake till 4:30am and slept till 6:30. Monday was only 3.5hrs of sleep, and Tues and Wed were about 3hrs at a time and then waking up for a while each night.
I've been so hyper focused at work as well. This sucks because when I eventually come down, it will seem like I'm slacking off.

Oh, I also presented the agenda, report, data, etc for a week long conference I'm leading in a couple of weeks (which my bosses boss ask me to lead)today to the plant manager, engineering manager, and her boss. Everyone was impressed and excitement and good jobs all round for another project and idea thats going to save the company a **** ton of money. What does my ***** ass boss do, congratulate me, say "good job"? No! She comes to my office to tell me how I'm unapproachable and how people are complaining to her.

She came to my office and said she had 4 people complain to her the last two weeks that I am unapproachable. I'm just starting to not believe this **** anymore.

Two of the people are the same people that ***** about her and whom I get along with very well and work with and communicate well with all day everyday in my plant completely separate from where she offices. It's just not believable that these people that ***** about her would make the trip up to complain about me not being approachable when they talk to me every single day throughout the day. She now wants me to spend a full hour everyday going to different people and talking to them interpersonally about their lives. The ***** doesn't realize that maybe some people want to be left alone and don't want people prying into their personal lives and I could spend that hour doing actual work. And, she wants me to work a few hours on night shift on Thursdays and Saturdays when I don't have my daughter. The ***** questioned me over and over when about when my daughter goes to her dad, not because she is interested in my life, but so she could tell me to work when I don't have her. I told her that I go to Dallas and OK on the weekends when I don't have my daughter to play poker. Her response, "That will have to change" I told her that Thursdays is when I do my shopping, cleaning, laundry. Her response, "Come in an hour later on Thursday and get all that done in the morning before you come". Like what in the ****? I already go in a few hours a month on night shift to train people and have meetings, and I have to bring my daughter with me.
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Lol What the Health, they argue that sugar doesn't cause diabetes and that carbs don't make you fat.

I would recommend watching Fed Up

I've gotta say, I always feel very sympathetic to your boss when you write about her and frequently suspect that you're giving a skewed version of reality about her, but the quoted is absolutely horrifying and I now like your boss less.

(None of this is to say that I endorse any insubordination as a result, obviously.)

What's with the dominoes for breakfast?
Btw explaining to your boss that you're not available on the weekend is fine. Leave details out though and if pressed, stress responsibilities. Keep your weekend poker habit to yourself.

So you take your child to a factory/work plant with you on night shifts and your boss has the gall to ask which days you don't have her? What a *****!

Don't tell your superiors about your gambling habit, especially as an excuse why you can't work.

Vegan is probably a good idea to lose weight, but it's not like the previoua diets you've tried have been any worse, just your ability to stick to them. Vegan might be even worse as none of your current go to meals look anything like it and you'll have to give up on a lot of food.

You could always try eating vegan one day week which should be easily doable.

Carbs don't make you fat.

I'm pretty sure a vegan diet doesn't include fish

There are certainly arguments for going vegetarian (lol vegans), but What The Health definitely isn't one of them. Are you at all critical of the things you watch/read MLYLT?

That would be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pescetarianism, which is pretty far from veganism.