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Re: caffeine and AD's..Subtopic: Sodas and Weight

Posted by afatchic on June 19, 2000, at 13:58:26

In reply to Re: caffeine and AD's..Subtopic: Sodas and Weight, posted by Johnturner77 on June 19, 2000, at 11:35:56

I think many people would be surprised to know how many calories they drink a day. After 15 years in military medicine, one the most important lessons I learned was that your body needs water. It's a message that we hear so often, it's easy to ignore. The consquences of not drinking enough is difficulty losing weight, head aches, nausea, and a strain on pretty much all your organs.

I've finally won my battle with my Diet Coke addiction and my drink of choice now is iced green tea that I brew myself.

> > > >My brother, who was up to about 240, which is 40 or 50 lbs too heavy, switched from sodas to water toward the end of last summer. In addition to the reduction of calories(he always refused to drink diet sodas) he was a lot less hungry. He has lost 15 to 20 lbs without dieting. He would never admit to depression, but he claims to feel much better now. My wife finds that it is much easier to stay on a diet if she cuts out sugar and white flour(anything with a high glycemic index). She has a lot of will power but finds it almost impossible to diet if she includes glucose type sugar sources. You might try switching to unsweetened tea to determine whether its the caffeine, sugar, or both.
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> Tonight, in talking with my s.o. about how I've been unable to lose weight, we calculated that I not only consume at least 800-l000 calories per day drinking soft drinks, but also a heck of a lot of caffeine that way too. I don't drink coffee. But lately I've had at least four Mountain Dews per day, and 4 or 5 glasses per day of Pepsi or Coke, on top of the Effexor-XR 375 mg/day. Does anybody have any information about how caffeine interacts with AD's? (BTW, I feel pretty good! except for being unable to take off about 20-30 lbs. I don't need.)
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> > > This post got "archived" before I got any replies. Any suggestions about an interaction? Thanks!
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> > Cindy -
> > Since caffiene is a stimulant and stimulants are used, as you know, with AD's to augment them or deal with attentional issues, I would imagine that that's simply what you're doing with the Mountain Dew. I do it with coffee or diet coke, but now I take ritalin so I cut back on those things.
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> > The soft drinks are probably why you can't take off that weight. Drinking water, 8 - 10 glasses per day helps with weight loss.
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> > Sara T.


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