No Calorie Sodas and Weight

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  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    rmgnow wrote: »
    You can testify that you've drank a million diet cokes, every day and you became a fitness model, it doesn't mean much to the lay-person.
    Fact is, if you are obese and you drink diet soda, you usually don't lose weight.
    Diet soda are not directly involved in gaining weight.
    But they are involved non the less.

    http://www.businessinsider.com/how-artificial-sweeteners-affect-weight-loss-and-gain-2017-7

    I'm not saying anyone should stop eating what they love, but there are no real benefits from diet soda except a temporary good mouth feel.

    That's exactly the point. They're neutral.

    You could say the same for water.

    Right.

    So then it comes down to:

    would you rather drink non diet soda and have to sacrifice the calories from something else?

    would you rather not ever drink any soda at all?

    or would you rather keep some soda in your diet but not waste calories on it.

    I don't care that much about soda, but if you enjoy it (and I occasionally do), being able to enjoy diet versions makes it a lot easier for those of us who count calories (who are not who the studies address) to have some soda.
  • ellie7187
    ellie7187 Posts: 83 Member
    Rob_in_MI wrote: »

    You're missing sarcasm Elle....

    Picture ginormous person with a 2k value meal, and the diet Coke

    No, I got it. Unfortunately my winking emoji did not post. I guess these forums don't like emojis!
  • cam1184
    cam1184 Posts: 1 Member
    I lost a lot of weight a couple years ago using MFP, pretty quickly too. And I LIVED off Diet Dr. Pepper the whole time. My healthiest habit? Probably not. But did it hinder my weight loss at all? Not even a little bit.