Ok so occasionally I like to drink a diet coke when I have a liquor drink or 2. I don’t do it real often but for some reason the day after I drink a diet soda I get this crazy empty feeling in my stomach. Its like I’m constantly hungry. No matter how much I eat I can’t be satisfied. I can be uncomfortably full and feel my belly be tight with food but still feel hungry.
Anyone else have that issue??
I would use soda water as a mixer. Lots of studies say diet soda is just as bad or worse than regular. I think of it literally as poison that causes diabetes.
I gave up soda, and artificial sweeteners pretty much altogether, for THAT EXACT reason. I found they fucked with my satiety signals. There are a lot of people that seem to handle them just fine, but I’ve also noticed many that say their satiety signals don’t work, also say they consume quite a bit of artificial sweeteners.
Like @grinch734 said, I just use plain soda water now, and have found a new appreciation for quality liquor because I actually taste it.
“Sugar is poison”
Hey, that’s one of my mantras!
(Including artificial sweeteners.)
Seems different people are real hit or miss with those. I can drink them all day without problems but know others that react same way you do. Most of the time these days I drink Zevia, much better than it was a couple years ago and actually has flavor to it. It’s mild compared to a diet coke but when that’s your main soda it’s pretty good and still fills that soda void. Not sure how their “soda” would hold up with some Jack in it, probably wouldn’t but worth a shot. Their Ginger Root Beer is pretty good otherwise!
Mostly gin. Gin and tonic used to be my drink of choice when we found ourselves at a place without beer. There was always a little off putting taste that I ASSUMED was the gin, and thats why you needed the tonic.
Turns out that off taste WAS the tonic and gin is delicious. My top two at the moment are Bombay Sapphire and Hendricks.
I think I know what you mean, Chad - for me it’s a “hollowed out” feeling. My best guess is that it’s related to hormones and perhaps blood sugar levels.
Drinking heavily can do it for me, too - it goes either of two ways. One is that I feel nasty enough the next day that I don’t want any food at all. The other is like nutrients have been leached right out of my cells, and that I GOTTA EAT.
TJ, Hendrick’s was a real eye-opener for me. The ‘cucumber’ aspect of it, and the floral nature surrounding it are like nothing else.
Yeah that’s the quinine in it - anti-malarial but very bitter… eh, don’t actually trust that it’s real quinine any more anyway. I love 
gin but like it neat, maybe with ice.
I’m loving Bulldog imported from the UK right now. But St George or Boodles work for me otherwise.
High Intensity Health on thier YT channel said once that diet soda’s aspartame still causes an insulin response. I’ve noticed the same effect (makes me crave the next day) and I just don’t drink it.
I’m slowly progressing towards that. If for no other reason, I’m tired of sending drinks back when they make them with tonic instead of soda out of force of habit