Drink diet cola if you can stand it. There are a number of low-or-no- calorie juice mixes that I find delicious if you can't.
Drink more water instead, I'd say. Aside from some of them being mild carcinogens (and saccharine being made by basically boiling up plastics) sweeteners can make your system intolerant to, er, sweeteners, and I know a couple of people who get headaches or flushes off aspartame. Promise yourself whatever it was you were going to eat, if you have a pint of water first.
Aside from the fact that the volume of water will make you less likely to eat (one of the sneaky premises of the GI diet, I think: eat something low-GI and stodgy first, then eat what you were going to eat anyway, only you don't have room), the water itself might make you feel less tired. Frequently I find myself weary unto death, and I'm actually dehydrated. It always surprises me how my spirits lift when I just drink some sodding water. My mother was right all along.
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Drink more water instead, I'd say. Aside from some of them being mild carcinogens (and saccharine being made by basically boiling up plastics) sweeteners can make your system intolerant to, er, sweeteners, and I know a couple of people who get headaches or flushes off aspartame. Promise yourself whatever it was you were going to eat, if you have a pint of water first.
Aside from the fact that the volume of water will make you less likely to eat (one of the sneaky premises of the GI diet, I think: eat something low-GI and stodgy first, then eat what you were going to eat anyway, only you don't have room), the water itself might make you feel less tired. Frequently I find myself weary unto death, and I'm actually dehydrated. It always surprises me how my spirits lift when I just drink some sodding water. My mother was right all along.