Diet Coke & Weight Loss
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Diet Coke has sodium in it (though not much else!) and tends to make your body retain fluids. That's why you can't count it in your daily liquids. So yes, I could see it slowing down weight loss if you drink a lot of it (like daily) and you weren't prior to that.0
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mylittlerainbow wrote: »Diet Coke has sodium in it (though not much else!) and tends to make your body retain fluids. That's why you can't count it in your daily liquids. So yes, I could see it slowing down weight loss if you drink a lot of it (like daily) and you weren't prior to that.
Diet Coke has sodium, yes, but very little. It is considered to be a "very low sodium food," which is printed right on the bottle. So while you are technically correct, in that the sodium can cause your body to retain fluids, she would have to be drinking it by the gallons for the sodium to have any effect.
Also, it's not the sodium content that is why you "can't count it in your daily liquids" it's the diuretic effect of the caffeine (which is a bogus claim anyway, at least according to Mayo Clinic, which says there is not enough caffeine in the drink, even coffee, to erase the benefit of the fluid content)0 -
I drink diet Pepsi every day and it hasn't affected my weight loss at all.0
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mylittlerainbow wrote: »Diet Coke has sodium in it (though not much else!) and tends to make your body retain fluids. That's why you can't count it in your daily liquids. So yes, I could see it slowing down weight loss if you drink a lot of it (like daily) and you weren't prior to that.
Diet Coke has 14mg sodium in a can
an egg has 62mg sodium
I think your contention is incorrect
and of course you can count diet soda as liquid0 -
mylittlerainbow wrote: »Diet Coke has sodium in it (though not much else!) and tends to make your body retain fluids. That's why you can't count it in your daily liquids. So yes, I could see it slowing down weight loss if you drink a lot of it (like daily) and you weren't prior to that.
drinking coke zero as I type this...30mg of sodium per 355ml - 1% your daily value - hardly something to worry about!
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I drink roughly 50oz od diet mt. dew a day (and 120 to 150oz of water). It will not make weight loss stop. I will say, as you become more lean, your weight loss will slow down. Also, when you are more lean you tend to have less ro for error (that is why the last 10 tend to be the hardest).
How accurate is your logging and how consistent are generally the bigger variables.0 -
christinev297 wrote: »The only way to know for sure is to stop drinking it and see what happens. This is providing your logging is on point.
I don't drink regular or diet soda, so can't speak of it's effects on the body.
Diet coke has no calories, therefore it is not part of any weight management equation.
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Can diet coke cause weight loss to slow down or even stop? I do @ 45 minutes of cardio a day - 6 days /week plus @ 20- 30 minutes of strength training 3 days a week. I eat between 1200 - 1500 calories a day. My weight loss has all but stopped & the only thing I can think of that may be causing it would be the diet cokes (@ 4/day).
Any ideas?
no it can't because diet coke has zero calories.
the only thing that is stoping your weight loss is eating over maintenance level.0 -
mylittlerainbow wrote: »Diet Coke has sodium in it (though not much else!) and tends to make your body retain fluids. That's why you can't count it in your daily liquids. So yes, I could see it slowing down weight loss if you drink a lot of it (like daily) and you weren't prior to that.
Not enough sodium to worry about. Even if it did contain a lot of sodium, it would be temporary water retention and not weight gain.0 -
mylittlerainbow wrote: »Diet Coke has sodium in it (though not much else!) and tends to make your body retain fluids. That's why you can't count it in your daily liquids. So yes, I could see it slowing down weight loss if you drink a lot of it (like daily) and you weren't prior to that.
even if that were true it is just a temporary thing and would not permanently slow down weight loss.0 -
Why would a zero calorie beverage be the cause for your weight loss to stall?
I've been drinking Diet Coke for about 25 years. I drank it when I was gaining, losing, and maintaining my weight. Diet Coke does nothing to impact the CICO energy balance.0 -
Soda=no benefit to your body. Stop.0
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I love Coke Zero. I mean LOVE it! But never more than 12 oz in a day. And not every day of the week. I treat it with a healthy respect, like I would beer or wine, despite its having no calories. Metabolic studies show it still has an impact digestively. What would be the harm in swapping out 3 of your 4 cokes with water & watching what happens???0
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Diet Coke doesn't prevent you from losing weight, but studies have shown that it could cause you to overeat. This is because the artificial sweeteners in diet soda could disrupt appetite control which can result in cravings and eating more food.0
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If zero calorie drinks mess up a diet I am in fact screwed, or... Does this pot of coffee make my *kitten* look fat?0
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I think you are going to have to find another culprit. Diet coke is not going to slow your weight loss.0
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Diet Coke doesn't prevent you from losing weight, but studies have shown that it could cause you to overeat. This is because the artificial sweeteners in diet soda could disrupt appetite control which can result in cravings and eating more food.
I have heard this many times but for me it is simply not the case. As I said above, I drank Diet Coke when losing, gaining, and maintaining. It did not induce cravings and dos not disrupt appetite control. In fact, I can only see that potentially being a factor if someone recently started drinking Diet Coke, if this has been part of their diet for quite some time I'm not sure why suddenly it would cause a disruption in appetite control and lead to a weight loss stall...0
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