I think this is a bad habit...

I really like diet soda! Do I have to give it up? I think I should, but its hard.
What else should I "give up" to try and make TTC more "successful".
TIA

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no artifical sweetners during PG...Splenda is the only one that I've read is ok to have, but I still avoid it

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I am a big diet soda drinker myself. My sister in law was told a can of diet soda a day is fine. Moderation. I plan on drinking one can a day (and will totally enjoy it). It will be much better then my 3 to 4 i have now!

My Mom said she lived on Diet Rite and Tab when pregnant with me.....

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My doc told me I can have one can of diet coke per day.

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Ok, I can do that! This is while your TTCing OR when your already PG. If I am PG (Im in my 2WW right now ), I plan on giving it up cold turkey...or at least try! I want everything to be good with me and my baby (when the time comes).

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I drink coffee with sweet n low and asked my Dr about it, she said two regualr 8 0z cups with my sweet n low was fine, since I do not drink soda hardly at all if ever...

Talk to your dr...every dr is different and I trust me so I went with what she said.

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I read that you can have 300mg of caffeine a day. My dr told me I could have a cup or 2 of coffee. I only have 1 cup a day with 1 sweet-n-low in it..and I dont drink soda or each chocolate...I will cut out iced-tea entirely though. Trying to avoid caffine PLUS its a diuretic and that isnt good for you. Ive been drinking a TON of water and I'm going to buy some flavored water becuase I'm already tired of regular water.

But just FYI I didnt change the way I ate, drank, etc when I was in the 2ww. I let myself enjoy it. It was too hard when I used to force myself not to have things I enjoyed and then have AF show up. SO I just took prenatals and kept everything else the way it was.

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I don't ovulate regularly and have very long cycles so just to be on the safe side I already gave up all alcohol and caffeine.

I rarely drank soda even before TTC.

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I already mostly drink seltzer with lemon, and when I first started TTC'ing I went to De-Caf Iced tea and I only have 1 cup a coffee a day. I am a chocoholic and dont want to give that up.

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i drink crystal light and milk and water lately i only drink soda's if i go out to dinner or on special occasions. i have sodas in my fridge diet vanilla pepsi but i drink it once in a while.