Diet pop - is it really bad for you?

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  • GaleHawkins
    GaleHawkins Posts: 8,159 Member
    Ross36 wrote: »
    Soda is mainly bad for your bones whether it is diet or regular. It has high levels of phosphates which decrease the Calcium levels in your plasma, so your body responds by releasing parathyroid hormone. This works at the bones to release calcium. The hormone also inhibits your kidney's ability to reabsorb the calcium in the plasma, so basically you are peeing out your bones.

    Always choose water!

    That story works for me. :)

    Seriously it was the phosphate thing that helped me ditch them about four months ago. Tasted one with sugar last weekend and it was like so bad tasting. I guess it was my sugar craving that led me to drink the stuff for 50 years. Tab was the first diet drink I remember.

    I now by phosphate by the gallon and spray it on rusty things to create a hard protective coating. :)

  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    BRaye325 wrote: »
    One of the changes I've been advised to make is to cut back or eliminate my diet pop. I don't have any real evidence that it is bad for me...

    That's because there isn't any.
  • bswith22
    bswith22 Posts: 13 Member
    You can drink diet pop, but NOT as a replacement for water
  • Laurend224
    Laurend224 Posts: 1,748 Member
    It's bad for me. Artificial sweeteners trigger my migraines, and fizzy drinks make me bloaty. But if it doesn't bother you, go for it!
  • CarrieCans
    CarrieCans Posts: 381 Member
    There's nothing wrong with it. Diet soda is just water, color, flavor, sweetener, sodium and citric acid. If you're worried about it, you can get one of those machines to make it yourself.

    I have lost weight drinking nothing but coffee with artificial sweetener in my coffee and diet sodas and i have also lost weight switching the diet soda to water. The only difference is my sodium intake. Diet soda sometimes has more sodium to help offset the bitter aftertaste of the sweetener. Sodium enhances sweet flavors.

    I also noticed no difference in cravings for sweets. I want them all of the time no matter what. Now that i am not getting the sweet soda i find it easier to want other sweets and also easier to fit them into my day because i am not getting all of the soda calories. No real difference in the end, just replacing one thing with another.

    @laurend224 Still waiting to see if artificial sweeteners trigger my migraines like you. I cut them out a while ago and have recently added them back in. 3 weeks and no change. I am happy because i like sweeteners but at the same time disappointed because i have yet to find a trigger.
  • CarrieCans
    CarrieCans Posts: 381 Member
    bswith22 wrote: »
    You can drink diet pop, but NOT as a replacement for water

    Why not?
  • Alessa71
    Alessa71 Posts: 21
    It's unsettled, but in terms of "pairings" (earlier in the thread), I must say diet coke with a chocolate or PB Quest bar is my favorite afternoon treat (or if I'm really throwing caution to te wind, Pure Protein Double Chocolate). Reminds me of soda and candy at the occasional movie as a kid.
  • fitmama0914
    fitmama0914 Posts: 83
    I used to drink 5 or 6 cans of regular pop a day, at least, and then coffee in between. When I logged back into mfp, I completely stopped drinking pop and aimed to drink 64 ozs of water, with a cup of coffee in the morning and evening. It could be coincidence, but I lost a lot of bloat. Then, for a few reasons, I stopped drinking water, and ended up drinking nothing but coffee all day again. And then I added about 8 to 10 ozs of diet pop a day, and now I feel bloated again. So it could be the pop, or it could be the coffee, but either one probably isn't great outside of moderation.
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