Snack or Diet Soda?

[Crankin]

Diet soda just makes me ravenously hungry. I would bring more/bigger snacks.

[aeiea]

I weened myself off all sodas five years ago, which was tough since I grew up in Coca-Cola country with Diet Coke parents. It went from sodas mixed with sparkling water... then to sparkling water... then to water. I haven't missed it since.

However, I recently fell in love with Kombucha as a fun snack drink. There are some theories (I think japanese?) that encourage eating all the different tastes at a meal -- savory, sweet, sour, etc -- as separate entities, not mixed. The theory was more complicated than this, but my simplified version helps when I'm snacking -- if one "taste" doesn't satiate me, I'll try another. Kombucha tends to fulfill the sour... and the bubbly makes it fun to drink.

Very interesting thread, and I had no idea aspartame affected the brain. A similar accident happened to a friend of mine, and we've noticed the personality changes in him. But we're happy he pulled through. I'm hoping the doctors also told him about aspartame (or whatever it is in the diet sodas).

[szsz]

Kombucha rocks! I won't touch soda, I drink a ton of water and I gave up coffee six months ago. So, while it is expensive, I find it a reasonable indulgence especially since it is also a vegan probiotic, of which there are few.

Also, since it's best to drink kombucha on an empty stomach, that adds in some additional discipline.

[snapdragen]

I keep a jar of raw almonds at my desk to snack on. Just a few seem to help that mid afternoon snack attack.

[OakLeaf]

I wish I knew someone local who had a kombucha growing. My sister has one, and it was "spawning" when I visited her last year, but I don't think TSA would've let me take it on the plane...

[smilingcat]

no GMO food,
No high corn fructose
No artificial sweetner. Mind as well use real sugar.

I sometime worry about all those sports drink, recovery, during workout...

I'm also one of those who finds sweet and low to be very bitter and not sweet. And some of the other artificial sweetner to have a bizzaro taste that I can't stand. I know what sugar tastes. I know the sweet taste of onion when cooked, carmelized carrots. Carmelized onion and carrots develop sweetness that's just plain yummy.

[OakLeaf]

Caramelized onion and carrots develop sweetness that's just plain yummy.

That's very true, but I don't know how well I'd do with a caramelized onion smoothie during a 10-mile training run...

Not to mention trying to clean out my gel flask!

[limewave]

I keep a jar of raw almonds at my desk to snack on. Just a few seem to help that mid afternoon snack attack.

DH has just started doing the grocery shopping for us as I've "had-it" with the grocery store.

He came home with a 3lb bag of almonds . . . "they were on sale!"
So, I think I'll do what you do. Bring a big jar to work