Sodium in drinks

cerferchick

I was noticing that the weeks I drank a soda (diet of course) I was maintaining weight even though I stayed under my calorie goal. My guess is the sodium is causing me to retain water. Does this make sense? I haven't researched it yet, just throwing it out there.

Enigmatica

It is possible. From what I've read there are other chemicals in the diet sodas that can cause inflammation and other health problems too. (Inflammation can affect the number you see on the scale.)

Not necessarly weight-retention related, but worth noting: guy I worked with ended up in the hospital with heart palpitations the doctors believe were caused by the sweetener in the Diet Coke he had been constantly drinking.

Valtishia

I just looked at the regular PC cola pop my husband drinks and it is 20mg of sodium and regular diet pepsi is 35mg. While there is a difference, you would have to drink alot of it to make a water retaining difference. Unless maybe you are having things like diet cream soda from crush which is 80mg according to the site. I would have checked, but I don't have any in the house right now.

If you aren't logging the pop, then do so and you'll see if its enough of a difference to cause that.

adjones_21

Yes diet drinks usually contain nothing but sodium. I use to drink Coke Zero it had nothing BUT 70 mg of sodium in a 20 oz bottle. In a 20 oz bottle there is usually 2-2 1/2 servings. I have since then stuck to drinking mainly water. Every once in a while I will throw in a Coke Zero so I wont crave sodas all the time.