Looking for a TRULY Zero Calorie drink....

When I out I drink diet soda--when I'm home though we drink crystal light iced tea. BUT, I'm a big drinker--I can easily go though a tub's and a half of tea a day (enough for 12 glasses, 5 calories each).

Those calories add up: 60 x 365 days a year = 21,900 extra calories. Thats an extra....6 lbs of year. Crazy right?

So I'm looking for a substitute aside from water or seltzer. Does anyone know of a drink mix that REALLY zero calories? Not one of those legally zero because they're under 5 calories. THANKS!!

Why not  make up fruit teas from teabags and allow the liquid to cool before drinking?

I drink Fresca which the label says 0 calories & 0 caffeine, however if you go to Coke's website it will show that it really has 2 calories. You can also check out all the other Coke products. I drink about 4 glasses of Fresca a day so at the end of the year it will be 3.65 lbs. But, my burn rate is 2100-2400/ day & my intake is 1300-1500/day & since 1/17 I've lost 11lbs. The point is that I've substituted Fresca for Mountain Dew! Good Luck!

I suggest the teas as well.  I am a big fan of iced teas in general.  And if you need to add sweetener, a little Splenda does the trick.

Original Post by gi-jane:

Why not make up fruit teas from teabags and allow the liquid to cool before drinking?

 this is my suggestion also. 

I appreciate the suggestions--but honestly I can't stomach the taste of "real" tea. I was thinking maybe another commercial product that truly has no calories? Maybe?

But doesn't green tea have 0 calories? Try carbonated water! I loooooove it!

Original Post by jakshops:

I appreciate the suggestions--but honestly I can't stomach the taste of "real" tea. I was thinking maybe another commercial product that truly has no calories? Maybe?

 have you tried the fruit ones?  

 

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure none of the artificial sweetners are truly 0 calorie so it seems unlikely that there is an artificially sweetened drink product on the market that is truly 0 calorie.  

Water ! : )

Unfortunately, there really isn't any such drink besides water!  What I'm wondering is if all that tea/sugar/etc that you are drinking is dehydrating you?  Also, studies have shown that diet sweetners result in people consuming more food and drink in the end.  Maybe you wouldn't feel the need to drink so much if you chose something more natural and hydrating? 

Personally, I love water or sparkling water with a small splash of cranberry juice and a squeeze of lime.  Very delicious and naturally low-cal, though it may take some getting used to if your tastebuds are accustomed to the dense flavor of those iced tea mixes.

that's a really good way to look at things and I do that.  One day X one week X a year.  Things add up quicker than most ppl realize.

When I get tired of water, which isn't often, I put a squirt of lemon juice in.  I'm ususally so full from my 8 gl of water a day that I don't think about other drinks.

Diet Lipton Green Tea or White Tea has 0 calories. It has aspertame... some people are sensitive to that. But its delicious. It comes in those HUGE bottles and they sell for $1.20 or so. I drink it everyday and its packed with anti-oxidents which are SOOO good for you :)

 

For everyone suggestiong diet sodas & other diet drinks - you do realize they aren't TRULY 0 calories right?

Your math doesnt appy because of the logic behind it.
If it did, then eating the bare minimum of 1200 calories daily would result in a yearly weight gain of 125 lbs. 

Now if you were absolutely at the max calories allowed for maintenance and then always another 60 tea calories over then it would.

You can switch to water, unsweetened drinks (straight coffee or tea) or allow your 60 calorie daily tea allowance to be incorporated into your total daily to lose weight. 

Most likely, those 60 calories daily of tea are preventing you from consuming much more calories through items that are more then 5 calories a serving. 

The catch is that if a commercial beverage is sweetened even with low cal sweetner at some quantity it will have calories.  If you only want a zero calorie allowance at any quantity for your drinks, youll be hard pressed finding a commercial product that sells without any sweetner outside bottled water, tea bags and ground coffee. 

I hoped but figured that nothing in life is free--even zero calorie drinks.

The only TRULY zero cal drink is water... unfortunately.

water.

i wouldn't worry about 60 calories a day.  i'm sure you can squeeze them in.  :D  water really is better for you though, i guess.

i'd worry more about the actual food you are eating.  that's what will really show at the end of the year.

1. I am now hooked on Dasani Grape Flavored water. I never could drink plain water. But now after drinking it for 5 weeks, I get a stomach ache if I drink even a Diet Pepsi. I have now lost 11lbs from cutting out soda or tea. Plus I walk a treadmill every other day. But hey it works! Good Luck!

Frankly, the extra 60 calories a day doesn't concern me - but I'd be VERY concerned about the amount of chemicals (artificial sweeteners, flavours, colours, preservatives etc) that you're consuming drinking that much diet drink every single day! You say you hate tea - have you ever tried any of the herbal/fruit teas? I don't like 'real' iced tea either - I hate tannin. But I love the apple/cinnamon, orange, berry etc teas. and they're much less artificial than a tub of crystal light. 

 

I agree with the Diet Lipton Green tea suggestion. It has no calories and it's great for your fingernails and metabolism.

 The trick I have found with drinking this product is to drink it cold, straight out of the fridge because as it gets closer to room temperature I have to force myself to finish it..but COLD... It's much more bearable! Good luck!