[Howard-33]

Baatar - Regardless of whether drinking diet soda has any scare harmful effects it's about an unwillingness to give up the idea of having soda.

Diet soda is just a way of trying to cheat the understanding that soda are bad for people and everyone should simply be drinking more water. Till you mentally are willing to leave soda's and the idea of soda's behind then it really doesn't matter what anyone tells you because you gonna keep looking for a reason to allow yourself atleast a diet pop of some sort as way of getting out sticking strictly to water.

For those unused to mainly drinking water as their main source of liquid, it takes time just like learning to eat certain vegetables. Eventually you will learn to simply appreciate water and your desire for anything else, except for the occasional beer, will fade away.

Use of a water filter or filtered pitcher will greatly increased the likelihood that you will have that glass of water instead of diet soda if you don't have a budget that includes bottled water.

I use a Brita water pitcher and squeeze a half a lemon into the pitcher. Sometimes I even shave some of the zest of the lemon into the pitcher as well. Not only does this help to mask generally unpleasant tasting water, but I have found cuts through the film dry mouth leaves amazingly well.