'I'm not accepting that Diet Coke is in any way bad for you and if I want to go back to it at any point, even if I have to abandon this experiment, then I will'. That was my statement to my wife at the start of my four-week trial without my favourite liquid refreshment. I'm not very good with external pressure when it comes to setting myself challenges you see.
I hate advice, tips and anything else people offer, usually with the best of intentions (on their part). I just want to get on with it, quietly, in my own way, and stop if and when I want to. People had been going on at me for years that I drank too much Diet Coke.
My response would be that it's zero calories, zero sugar, and that there's no conclusive evidence it's any worse for you than any other processed drink or food. I pointed out I didn't drink tea or coffee, my alcohol intake was usually just two drinks on each of a Friday and Saturday night, and, being a pescatarian, I didn't eat any meat. For the latest health and Covid news, sign up to our newsletter here READ MORE: I followed Michael Mosley's 5:2 fast diet plan - this is the one food I now can't live without READ MORE: Doctors say Pioppi Diet will see you lose weight and boost heart health I was aware that Diet Coke has the artificial sweetener aspartame in it, but then so do tonnes of drinks, even many fruit squashes and flavoured waters.
People also told me what happened if you left a penny in a glass of coke and how it must be doing the same to my inside.
