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simlovgin960831 wrote: »Are you drinking pop or diet pop? If you are, quit now. I drank that stuff all my life and never lost an ounce. The minute I quit drinking it, (diet pop), the weight just started melting off. I lost over 50 lbs. drinking water and no other drinks.
Diet soda has no calories and therefore does not effect weight loss.
As I understand it, diet soda has sodium. The more sodium you take in, the more water you retain. So quitting diet soda can help you lose weight depending on how much of it you were drinking. It's just not in the way we normally think of losing weight.
water retention and weight is different than the objective of fat loss and diet pop does not hinder it in since it has no calories.
The poster I quoted said it has no effect on weight loss. I disagreed. I never said that it was fat that you lose. In fact, I was specifically talking about water weight.0 -
If you're building muscle and replacing fat you won't see results on your scale. Muscle weighs more than fat. You'll start to feel the difference first...looser jeans, etc.0
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Mapalicious wrote: »queenliz99 wrote: »Well, there are stuff some people don't want to tell in public and have it easier time to ask about it from someone in private messages. I don't see anything wrong with offering advices and support with friend request as long as it won't go bashing or anything like that.
Open communication is better.
I prefer messaging, myself.
I trust this young woman to make her own decisions about messaging someone or not. Don't you?
What's it to you!0 -
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Especially for a woman.0 -
UHhhhhhWHAaaTmf wrote: »simlovgin960831 wrote: »Are you drinking pop or diet pop? If you are, quit now. I drank that stuff all my life and never lost an ounce. The minute I quit drinking it, (diet pop), the weight just started melting off. I lost over 50 lbs. drinking water and no other drinks.
Diet soda has no calories and therefore does not effect weight loss.
Its true about the calories, but its the Artificial sweeteners that are bad. Artificial sweeteners are hundreds to thousands of times sweeter than regular sugar, activating our genetically-programmed preference for sweet taste more than any other substance.
*They trick your metabolism into thinking sugar is on its way. This causes your body to pump out insulin, the fat storage hormone, which lays down more belly fat.
It also confuses and slows your metabolism down, so you burn fewer calories every day.
It makes you hungrier and crave even more sugar and starchy carbs like bread and pasta.
For everyone it is different with how your body will react. A.S. also can cause type 2 diabetes.
All broscience, no real science.
Really? There are many studies and significant resources out there to support the claim of artificial sweeteners. Have done lots of research throughout my years of school. Currently a Registered Dietician so please don't bring any bro science bs in here thanks.0 -
If you're building muscle and replacing fat you won't see results on your scale. Muscle weighs more than fat. You'll start to feel the difference first...looser jeans, etc.
Muscle doesn't weigh more than fat. 1lb of fat weighs the same as 1lb of muscle.
*Muscle occupies less space*0 -
UHhhhhhWHAaaTmf wrote: »UHhhhhhWHAaaTmf wrote: »simlovgin960831 wrote: »Are you drinking pop or diet pop? If you are, quit now. I drank that stuff all my life and never lost an ounce. The minute I quit drinking it, (diet pop), the weight just started melting off. I lost over 50 lbs. drinking water and no other drinks.
Diet soda has no calories and therefore does not effect weight loss.
Its true about the calories, but its the Artificial sweeteners that are bad. Artificial sweeteners are hundreds to thousands of times sweeter than regular sugar, activating our genetically-programmed preference for sweet taste more than any other substance.
*They trick your metabolism into thinking sugar is on its way. This causes your body to pump out insulin, the fat storage hormone, which lays down more belly fat.
It also confuses and slows your metabolism down, so you burn fewer calories every day.
It makes you hungrier and crave even more sugar and starchy carbs like bread and pasta.
For everyone it is different with how your body will react. A.S. also can cause type 2 diabetes.
All broscience, no real science.
Really? There are many studies and significant resources out there to support the claim of artificial sweeteners. Have done lots of research throughout my years of school. Currently a Registered Dietician so please don't bring any bro science bs in here thanks.
Really? Can you link me to these peer reviewed scientific journals that have this research in them? I would love to read them for myself.0 -
UHhhhhhWHAaaTmf wrote: »UHhhhhhWHAaaTmf wrote: »simlovgin960831 wrote: »Are you drinking pop or diet pop? If you are, quit now. I drank that stuff all my life and never lost an ounce. The minute I quit drinking it, (diet pop), the weight just started melting off. I lost over 50 lbs. drinking water and no other drinks.
Diet soda has no calories and therefore does not effect weight loss.
Its true about the calories, but its the Artificial sweeteners that are bad. Artificial sweeteners are hundreds to thousands of times sweeter than regular sugar, activating our genetically-programmed preference for sweet taste more than any other substance.
*They trick your metabolism into thinking sugar is on its way. This causes your body to pump out insulin, the fat storage hormone, which lays down more belly fat.
It also confuses and slows your metabolism down, so you burn fewer calories every day.
It makes you hungrier and crave even more sugar and starchy carbs like bread and pasta.
For everyone it is different with how your body will react. A.S. also can cause type 2 diabetes.
All broscience, no real science.
Really? There are many studies and significant resources out there to support the claim of artificial sweeteners. Have done lots of research throughout my years of school. Currently a Registered Dietician so please don't bring any bro science bs in here thanks.
Really? Can you link me to these peer reviewed scientific journals that have this research in them? I would love to read them for myself.
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For the last 3 weeks ive been trying to lose weight and so far ive lost some water weight but in the past week or so i havent lost a pound.. I know that weight loss doesnt happen overnight but how is it that i havent even lost a pound? Its been kinda upsetting me. Ive been eating healthy and exercising so im not sure what the problem is. Can someone give me some tips or suggestions on what to do.
You will not lose weight every single week for several possible reasons. A higher sodium meal will lead to water retention, increased or new exercise routine will lead to water retention, and TOM will also cause water retention. What you've been doing has been working, so stay with it for now and have some patience. If, after a few more weeks, the scale isn't moving, then you need to reduce the calories you are consuming. The best way to do this is by tightening up your logging by using a food scale. Read a lot of the stickied threads at the top of the getting started and general diet forums here. They have some great information. The weight that you have lost will be some water weight, but also some fat will be going with it. Are you weighing yourself daily or weekly? I recommend using a program that tracks trends, such as trendweight or happy scale or libra. These programs will show you that even when you have a stall or even a slight increase, your overall trend is likely still going down.
I weigh daily, this is what it's looked like since October:
Notice all the ups and downs, but the overall trend is down. Have some patience.
Same time period but with trendweight, mostly a downward line :laugh:
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UHhhhhhWHAaaTmf wrote: »simlovgin960831 wrote: »Are you drinking pop or diet pop? If you are, quit now. I drank that stuff all my life and never lost an ounce. The minute I quit drinking it, (diet pop), the weight just started melting off. I lost over 50 lbs. drinking water and no other drinks.
Diet soda has no calories and therefore does not effect weight loss.
Its true about the calories, but its the Artificial sweeteners that are bad. Artificial sweeteners are hundreds to thousands of times sweeter than regular sugar, activating our genetically-programmed preference for sweet taste more than any other substance.
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Diet stuff has no calories or very few calories. My diet drink of choice is sugar-free Red Bull which has 7 cals per can but they also do a Red Bull Zero which is calorie free. But yes, no calories = no weight gain.
Artificial sweeteners may be sweeter (do you have a source for this?) but that means they use less so the drink is equally sweet compared to its non-diet counterpart. Being a thousand times sweeter means they use WAY less or it would be undrinkable.
Do you have sources for anything you said, some of your claims are nonsense.0 -
emmaling142 wrote: »UHhhhhhWHAaaTmf wrote: »simlovgin960831 wrote: »Are you drinking pop or diet pop? If you are, quit now. I drank that stuff all my life and never lost an ounce. The minute I quit drinking it, (diet pop), the weight just started melting off. I lost over 50 lbs. drinking water and no other drinks.
Diet soda has no calories and therefore does not effect weight loss.
Its true about the calories, but its the Artificial sweeteners that are bad. Artificial sweeteners are hundreds to thousands of times sweeter than regular sugar, activating our genetically-programmed preference for sweet taste more than any other substance.
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Diet stuff has no calories or very few calories. My diet drink of choice is sugar-free Red Bull which has 7 cals per can but they also do a Red Bull Zero which is calorie free. But yes, no calories = no weight gain.
Artificial sweeteners may be sweeter (do you have a source for this?) but that means they use less so the drink is equally sweet compared to its non-diet counterpart. Being a thousand times sweeter means they use WAY less or it would be undrinkable.
Do you have sources for anything you said, some of your claims are nonsense.
Aaaah, the complex neuro-biology of food reward!!! http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892765/
This is a review article on the concept that artificial sweeteners are correlated with weight gain. PLEASE NOTE: it's not a direct causal pathway at all. BUT...human brains are complicated. In a regular social setting (not some magical ideal place where everyone works as an ultimately rational actor) people are more likely to gain weight when they switch to artificial sweeteners due to our neuro-biological reward systems. So this means if you switch from regular to diet soda, and you count your calories like a good happy MFP-er, you're not going to gain weight because of it (duh). But on the whole, most of our society doesn't know how to regulate their intake...hence obesity epidemic...so artificial sweeteners are super problematic.
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queenliz99 wrote: »Mapalicious wrote: »queenliz99 wrote: »Well, there are stuff some people don't want to tell in public and have it easier time to ask about it from someone in private messages. I don't see anything wrong with offering advices and support with friend request as long as it won't go bashing or anything like that.
Open communication is better.
I prefer messaging, myself.
I trust this young woman to make her own decisions about messaging someone or not. Don't you?
What's it to you!
Exactly my question! You took the words out of my mouth
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