Opinions on diet drinks

@OneOfMany Thanks for the honest answer. There must be that artificial sweetener that causes the laxative effect- like the so called sugar free candy. Gut bombs!

@sallypup I don't need any laxatives from my food now that I am lactose intolerant. It seems like everything has a bit of dairy in it! I learned from my aunt that the breath savers are dangerous to take in volume. Must be those sweeteners again!

@sallypup Many of them do indeed.

@kareng I agree. The fake sweeteners have an awful after taste.

@rebelann Whoa. You sure dredge up the oldies but goodies. And those drinks are still out there.

The best foods and drinks to put in your body are those without the word diet on them @sallypup Whole milk is much healthier than skim or low fat due to the process by which they remove the fat. The key is moderation and exercise and age is also a contributing factor. My friend had one of those belly operations so that she can't eat so much and her doctor told her to make sure to eat small meals and exercise to keep the fat off, she is 5'2" and weighed 300 lbs when she did this. After she lost weight she had the excess skin surgically removed and now she's gaining it back again. I was a healthy 200 lbs and after rehab I went down to 190 lbs, I do lose weight with the way I've been eating but it's slow going mostly due to my age, I'm 70, but for me it would be a disaster if I lost weight fast because it would cause sagging skin and that is hard to get rid of. Maybe by next year I'll be down to 188 lbs. I've got big bones so too skinny wouldn't look good anyway.

@Rohvannyn That's a tough juggling act. You want to be healthy and need to be up and about cause you mostly sit all day and yet of course you get hungry.

@norcal I am sure drinking stuff would not educate me in making better food choices.

@Elizaby I wonder if even a natural juice diet would do the same thing? Too much liquid overload for the body to handle.