Diet Coke and Loosing Weight
44rkyle
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Who has had success in additional weight loss after you stopped drinking diet coke or any other diet drink?
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Drinking diet soda has had no impact on my weight loss or gain. For me, it does not trigger sugar attacks nor does it make me hungrier. I think each person must have a different reaction to this, but personally I DID NOT lose any additional weight by not drinking it.0
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Im not a pop drinker anyway but i've had several friends stop drinking diet drinks and weight practically melts off of them. I am sure it does depend on the person0
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The first time I ever lost any significant weight it was switching to diet drinks. I lost about 10 lbs, down to around 210 within 6 weeks. I didn't change anything else. It's about the calories when you are trying to take weight off and diet drinks have zero.0
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I've been ripped and still drank diet sodas...0
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If you enjoy diet Coke, then drink it. Don't let the food police scare you or make you feel guilty.0
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Diet soda has had zero impact on my weight loss. I pretty religiously hit a 500-550 calorie deficit, and average 1 lb/week weight loss. That's with drinking tons of diet soda.
Can't imagine cutting out the diet soda would change my weight loss.0 -
Im not a pop drinker anyway but i've had several friends stop drinking diet drinks and weight practically melts off of them. I am sure it does depend on the person
Correlation, not causation. When those people cut out diet sodas, they no doubt also paid more attention to the other things that they consumed. This leads to eating less and therefore weight loss.0 -
I used to drink a LOT of diet coke and spent 7 years trying to figure out why I was gaining so much weight, and why my stomach was always hurting. After about 23 doctors, all sorts of probing and testing, my mom suggested giving up the diet coke. I did and nothing changed. Then I realized I was still eating a lot of artificially sweetened stuff, like WW products. I gave those up and within 3 weeks all of my stomach problems were GONE. The weight did not fall off, but my body felt so much better.0
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I cut all soda/fast food out of my life in Jan 2011, I dropped 30 pounds and about 6 inches.
This is with no other lifestyle change other than cutting soda/fast food0 -
I drink diet pop every day. It has had no negative effects on my weight loss.0
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I gave them up for Lent.....and hopefully forever....I will let you know if it has any impact on weight loss...0
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Im not a pop drinker anyway but i've had several friends stop drinking diet drinks and weight practically melts off of them. I am sure it does depend on the person
Correlation, not causation. When those people cut out diet sodas, they no doubt also paid more attention to the other things that they consumed. This leads to eating less and therefore weight loss.
This!
Diet pop or other diet drinks will not cause you to gain weight. They are zero calories. Gaining weight comes from consuming more calories than you use.
Cutting out diet pop or other diet drinks will not make you lose weight any faster if you changed nothing else. It may make you lose an inch or two around your waist if you get cloated due to carbination.
I drink diet pop almost daily.. I always have some in my fridge. They work for me because they give me something sweet and stop me from snacking.0 -
I cut all soda/fast food out of my life in Jan 2011, I dropped 30 pounds and about 6 inches.
This is with no other lifestyle change other than cutting soda/fast food
The weight loss would be due to cutting out fast food if you were drinking diet pops... if you were drinking regular that can cause weight loss though.0 -
You'll hear about a lot of studies linking diet soda with problems like diabetes. They almost always are a case of correlation and not causation. Diabetics are more likely to drink diet soda because they have to be careful with sugar intake. This example and others are perpetuated by lazy journalists on slow news days.
Here's a news article from this week. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/20/health-dietdrinks-idUSL4N0BK0GG20130220
However, with any news article about science, ignore it and read the actual publication instead: http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/97/3/6040 -
I find diet coke harder to give up than food I know I should drink less x0
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I gave them up for Lent.....and hopefully forever....I will let you know if it has any impact on weight loss...
Me too!0 -
You'll hear about a lot of studies linking diet soda with problems like diabetes. They almost always are a case of correlation and not causation. Diabetics are more likely to drink diet soda because they have to be careful with sugar intake. This example and others are perpetuated by lazy journalists on slow news days.
Here's a news article from this week. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/20/health-dietdrinks-idUSL4N0BK0GG20130220
However, with any news article about science, ignore it and read the actual publication instead: http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/97/3/604
Also, people think if I drink diet coke it will balance out this birthday cake I am about to eat.0 -
I used to be a big soda drinker. I preferred diet dr. pepper over Diet Coke. I sometimes would drink a whole six pack a day. If I didn't drink for a day, I would get really bad headaches from caffeine withdrawal. I then switched to caffeine free and then about a year ago I stopped drinking soda entirely. Now, I mostly just drink water (and lots of it) and nonfat milk. I feel tons better and no more caffeine withdrawal headaches. I made a decision to live healthier while losing weight and exercising. In the past year, I have lost 160 pounds from 405 pounds to 245 pounds (6-0 male, age 38). Abstaining from soda is just one of the many things that I have done to try to live healthier. I feel so much better.0
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I think its about moderation. If you a person is drinking 48 oz of diet anything they are most likely drinking little plain water. Water is essential to weight loss right?0
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I find diet coke harder to give up than food I know I should drink less x
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