Are diet fizzy drinks bad for you? help please :(

Onesnap

I'm strongly against all fake sugars so I'm really not the best person to ask.

I will say that I recently read an article on the habits of thin people. Thin people do not eat diet foods and 100 calorie packs!

There's a lot of controversy on MFP about diet drinks so this is where I politely duck out of this forum before getting myself in trouble.

I hate "informative" articles like that! What the heck are they basising that info on?? I am thin and I eat diet stuff and 100 calorie packs..they should have asked me lol.

To each their own. If it works for you keep doing what you are doing! I don't want to go on and on here about fake sugars versus the various natural sweeteners out there. If you are comfortable eating a bunch of chemicals made in a lab each and every day that is your own personal decision.

As for the informative article you are criticizing, I only pay attention to valid articles from trusted sources (Scientific American etc.)

One last thing is if fake sugar is not SAFE for pregnant women, how is it safe for the rest of us?

avsingleton

yes, diet fizzy drinks are bad, bad, bad for u. in fact, all fizzy drinks aNd diet stuff period, is bad for u, especially cokes. u should stick with natural, natural, natural...that would be juice, water and food u make in the kitchen urself from natural wholesome ingredients. if ur caloric intake can't afford a juice bc u've consumed all u need for the day, drink water, ur bod will love u for it!

ste73

ste73 Everyone goes on about aspartame causing cancer and migraines. It's certainly not beneficial for you, but on the other hand the amount they put in a bottle I wouldn't go worrying yourself over . I think diet sprite doesn't have any in it

springtrio

My rule of thumb has been this - if you eat out as little as I do, drink it then (we usually eat out about 1-2x a month)...it's not going to hurt. I believe in moderation. I drink a gallon of water EVERY single day, sometimes more if I run more than 10 miles and do weight lifting in that day. I believe it's not going to hurt me having 20oz. of it every 30 days. I managed to lose 100lbs. having the "moderation" rule.

Thats a good rule about the pop! I like that. i have tried to instill that one in the DH about dessert....but the jerk keeps bringing snacks into the house LMAO!!

I am not going to preach (cuz I just did it) but you might be drinking a tad bit too much water!

Nah. I'm good on the water. a gallon is actually a very good amount for a distance runner like myself. You get very easily dehydrated running long distances.

Good luck on the dessert. How do you guys manage to fit in dessert? I always feel SOOO stuffed after eating out most anywhere. I think I ate it once or twice before I lost the weight.

noexcuses1218

i stopped drinking standard coke, pepsi, sprite etc...and i switched to all diets and lights. even though they are very low on calories, is there any negative impacts?

Disclaimer: I used to drink seven or eight 20-ounce bottles of diet cola per day. I still have one on occasion, particularly if I'm eating out.

Let me share with you what my urologist told me. It made some sense to me. He said that artificial sweeteners are physiologically many times "sweeter" than actual sugar, even. He said that when you drink one, your body thinks it's just had a lot of sugar, and consequently dumps a lot of insulin into the bloodstream. Then, when there isn't nearly enough actual blood sugar for the insulin to "eat," it eats whatever blood sugar it encounters, with the result being that your blood sugar bottoms out. When your blood sugar goes low, that makes you feel hungry, so you eat ... a lot, maybe. His bottom line: diet soda makes it harder to eat reasonably and thus lose weight; he also said that frequently dumping a lot of insulin into the system when it doesn't have a commensurate amount of sugar to dispose of promotes insulin resistance, which is the diabetes gateway.

Anyway, I thought his theory was plausible, at least with respect to drinking massive amounts of diet soda, as I was doing. So I made friends with plain old water. Your mileage, as they say, may vary.

Wow, James, that makes a LOT of sense, which might explain why dropping the lunchtime diet soda has helped with my afternoon/evening sugar cravings. Now if I could just drink black coffee at night... *shudder*

Rae6503

Some day I'll give up diet soda and sodium.





But not today.

Huskeryogi

Some day I'll give up diet soda and sodium.





But not today.

LOL - Me too

I have gotten myself down to 1 diet soda/day (caffeine free). I just love carbonation!

LivLovLrn

I love diet pepsi...often call it my favorite food because if I could I would drink it all day long, but it makes me tired and cranky (probably the aspartame). So I have found other sodas that are made of natural ingredients to help curb my cravings a little bit anyway....Juice squeeze has a lot of good flavors and that I can get my carbonation fix from and not have quite as much bad stuff going into my system. I do allow myself my favorite food about once a month, though

HMonsterX

you need to drink water to stay hydrated.

Simply not true. Any fluid will hydrate you, although some less that others.

Once again, the bottom line is this. You can find research to show that pretty much anything is bad for you in some ways. Other research says the same thing has health benefits.

It's not WHAT you have, its HOW MUCH you have.

whateverfloats

I don't know whether artificial sweaters are bad for you or not. However, they train your pallate to prefer really sweet things and I don't think that's condusive to long-term health.

I love fizzy water. It's 0 calories, filling, tasty, and satisfying. If you find it too bitter you can add in a little juice to get a spritzer effect. Delicious!

James_1954

Some day I'll give up diet soda and sodium.





But not today.

Ain't that the truth! One damn thing at a time, as my old mother used to say. (An earthy woman, my old mother was. Given to colorful turns of speech. I miss her.)