I used to drink a lot of club mate. I loved it, but I had to stop drinking it because there is much more sugar in it than you would think and I developed dental health issues.
Club soda got me off them (this is before fizzy water became a trendy drink). Turns out my craving was mostly for the carbonation bite, not the sugar.
Seltzer water didn't work. The missing minerals make it taste super weird to my palate. Had to be club soda (or sparkling mineral water, but that was too expensive for me to have often at the time).
Try some of the new Virgil's drinks, they are truly low carb( sweetened with erythritol) and the canned versions taste really good. They have a cola version as well.
I've gone through a few cases of the premade drinks. My first bottle or two did the same to me but never since. Pretty sure it was the high amount of fat (~50% of calories) coupled with an empty stomach. I keep them at my desk and in my car for occasional usage.
Honestly the only two things I'm missing on low carb are ice cream (that's okay though) and coke (which is why I'm searching for a pure stevia alternative). I had way less problems then I would have expected.
edit: a) I'm in Germany, not that many products available here. b) I always steered clear of Coca Cola, Pepsi and so on, those were too sweet for me and the caffeine level was rather low anyway.
This is my vice. I eat pretty healthy and do a high fat low carb diet and am in pretty good shape, but this is my one cheat item. And I consume it regularly. It's basically the only bad carbs I still eat, generally speaking. I've always had a thing for sugary drinks in any form - juice, soda, etc. Maybe one day I'll shake it.
This is the problem. I am an endurance athlete and I tried Rockstar but the sugar content just means spike, then crash, then crucially, you are more dehydrated after drinking it than you were before! So you either realize this was a mistake and switch to water (and stick to Powerade in future which has the ideal sugar content for fast absorbing without the aforementioned problems) or chug another Rockstar... you can easily get through several 500ml cans that way.
The MilFit/CrossFit group I train with now frequently issues warnings about no energy drinks before big workouts.
Same boat. I stopped diet drinks entirely when Nutrasweet came out; drinking a few ounces of a drink with that in it would give me a rapid and severe headache. It made me suspicious of the whole business of artificial sweeteners. Besides, they all taste horrible.
This is a great idea. In addition, consider flavouring to your taste by just mixing with soda.
I had an obsession with sprite/7-up one summer. The diet variety tasted awful and the regular not only was so high in calories, it was too sweet for me. I ended up with a 60/40 mix of club soda/sprite. It gives it a wonderful lightness while maintaining that great fizziness. It became my summer patio reading drink.
When Coca Cola released their Stevia sweetened "Coca Cola Life", I thought this was a great compromise between taste and calories. I drank quite a lot of that stuff, and suddenly, from one day to the other, the taste absolutely disgusted me. It just felt horribly artifical, and until today it sends a shiver down my spline just seeing those bottles in the supermarket. No idea what made my brain switch.
I still consume energy drinks, right now I am drinking a rip it sugar free zero carb/calorie energy drink with 120% vitamin C, 100% vitamin B6 and 170% vitamin B12. Sure I can probably skip this and slug through the day, but I find it's a good balance for me, other than this all I drink is water and I only have a single serving a day.
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