Losing Weight and Drinking Pop?

petitegreek

Does anyone on here drink pop and are successful losing weight? I drink diet pop and usually drink one can per day. I've heard different things about this.

_noob_

I drink more than that, I've lost 70 lbs in the last 13 months.

stephgas

i drink between 16-32oz of diet soda a day and am steadily losing weight. i also drink 80+ ounces of water a day, in addition to coffee or tea. i think as long as your water intake is sufficient it's okay. one of the last times i lost weight (53 pounds) i was drinking almost a two liter a day.

petitegreek

Both of your posts are refreshing to hear. I am pretty good about drinking water every day, and I also drink coffee and tea.

CyberEd312

I drink 2 or 3 Diet Pepsi a day and have lost a few pounds..... :drinker:

JamieG8991

Absolutely!! I drink coffee, diet coke and tea and I've kept losing weight, but I also make sure to drink my water too!!

babyangelica2010

If it's diet pop, sure you will still lose weight...but that much aspartame scares the crap out of me.

Brenda4105

I drink any where from 36oz to 60oz a day of diet soda. I have lost 26lbs so far. I know the sodium in it is bad and I would pri lose quicker if I didn't drink it but I am addicted. I do drink about 100oz of water a day also.

jonnythan

Does anyone on here drink pop and are successful losing weight? I drink diet pop and usually drink one can per day. I've heard different things about this.

Diet soda won't affect your weight loss if you control your calories.

I drink 2-3 cans a day. Zero calorie is zero calorie.

jonnythan

I drink 2 or 3 Diet Pepsi a day and have lost a few pounds..... :drinker:

A few!!

carts1179

If it's diet pop, sure you will still lose weight...but that much aspartame scares the crap out of me.

this! Thhat much cancer chemicals scare me too

RiversideBabe

I avoid diet soda at all costs. I highly suggest researching aspartame, the sweetener used in diet beverages. I will occasionally have a mixed drink with pop on the weekends, but other than that, no pop for me.

stephgas

re: aspartame, taken from the mayo clinic website:

"...according to the National Cancer Institute and other health agencies, there's no sound scientific evidence that any of the artificial sweeteners approved for use in the U.S. cause cancer or other serious health problems. And numerous research studies confirm that artificial sweeteners are generally safe in limited quantities, even for pregnant women. As a result of the newer studies, the warning label for saccharin was dropped.

Artificial sweeteners are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as food additives. They must be reviewed and approved by the FDA before being made available for sale. In some cases, the FDA declares a substance "generally recognized as safe" (GRAS). These GRAS substances, including highly refined stevia preparations, are deemed by qualified professionals based on scientific data as being safe for their intended use, or they have such a lengthy history of common use in food that they're considered generally safe and don't require FDA approval before sale."

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/artificial-sweeteners/MY00073

the amount of diet soda you'd have to consume on a daily basis to get the cancers that lab rats were getting from saccharine in the 70s and 80s is like 60 cans a day. i get it that people want to be all natural and eat less processed foods - i'm doing that too. but the scare tactics that people try to use regarding aspartame and many other sweeteners are generally unfounded. remember when eggs were good for us? and then they were really bad for us? and now they're good for us again? things come in and out of fashion. my dad is an insulin dependent type II diabetic and has been drinking diet soda since 1987. although he still has the diabetes, he is cancer free. and he drinks A LOT of diet soda. his day includes about two pots of coffee and a two liter of diet whatever. i figure if he can put away that kind of aspartame/saccharine over the last 25+ years and still have all of his limbs and no cancer, i'm pretty comfortable drinking my diet coke.

chellebublz

I think it is different for every individual if they can lose with diet soda or not. Me personally, I can't, not sure why. I can drink Crystal Light all day long and be fine, but the second I consume a diet Pepsi or something, I am bloated and it takes me a week to get back to where I was. Not sure if it's the carbonation or the sodium or what, but I just avoid it most of the time.

lsjd2000

I drink prob 3-4 - 20oz mountain dews (regular, diet soda gives me migraines) a week - usually on the days I am working (up at 4:30a and not in bed till around 11p if lucky so I need the caffeine) I have been losing an average of 2 pounds a week for the last month or so. I just fit it into my calories for the day -

RiversideBabe

re: aspartame, taken from the mayo clinic website:

"...according to the National Cancer Institute and other health agencies, there's no sound scientific evidence that any of the artificial sweeteners approved for use in the U.S. cause cancer or other serious health problems. And numerous research studies confirm that artificial sweeteners are generally safe in limited quantities, even for pregnant women. As a result of the newer studies, the warning label for saccharin was dropped.

Artificial sweeteners are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as food additives. They must be reviewed and approved by the FDA before being made available for sale. In some cases, the FDA declares a substance "generally recognized as safe" (GRAS). These GRAS substances, including highly refined stevia preparations, are deemed by qualified professionals based on scientific data as being safe for their intended use, or they have such a lengthy history of common use in food that they're considered generally safe and don't require FDA approval before sale."

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/artificial-sweeteners/MY00073


the amount of diet soda you'd have to consume on a daily basis to get the cancers that lab rats were getting from saccharine in the 70s and 80s is like 60 cans a day. i get it that people want to be all natural and eat less processed foods - i'm doing that too. but the scare tactics that people try to use regarding aspartame and many other sweeteners are generally unfounded. remember when eggs were good for us? and then they were really bad for us? and now they're good for us again? things come in and out of fashion. my dad is an insulin dependent type II diabetic and has been drinking diet soda since 1987. although he still has the diabetes, he is cancer free. and he drinks A LOT of diet soda. his day includes about two pots of coffee and a two liter of diet whatever. i figure if he can put away that kind of aspartame/saccharine over the last 25+ years and still have all of his limbs and no cancer, i'm pretty comfortable drinking my diet coke.

The FDA doesn't care about your well being as much as you think it does and maybe the research shows it doesn't cause cancer, but there are a lot of awful other things it causes including rotting teeth, makes you have larger cravings for sugar and then this story:

"In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick She had stomach spasms and she was having a hard time getting around. Walking was a major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed; she was in so much pain.

By March 2002, she had undergone several tissue and muscle biopsies and was on 24 various prescription medications. The doctors could not determine what was wrong with her. She was in so much pain, and so sick she just knew she was dying.

She put her house, bank accounts, life insurance, etc., in her oldest daughter's name, and made sure that her younger children were to be taken care of.

She also wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to Florida (basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd.

On March 19, I called her to ask how her most recent tests went, and she said they didn't find anything on the test, but they believe she had MS.

I recalled an article a friend of mine e-mailed to me and I asked my sister if she drank diet soda? She told me that she did. As a matter of fact, she was getting ready to crack one open that moment.

I told her not to open it, and to stop drinking the diet soda! I e-mailed her an article my friend, a lawyer, had sent. My sister called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation and told me she had stopped drinking the diet soda AND she could walk! The muscle spasms went away. She said she didn't feel 100% but, she sure felt a lot better.

She told me she was going to her doctor with this article and would call me when she got home.

Well, she called me, and said her doctor was amazed! He is going to call all of his MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial sweeteners of any kind. In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the Aspartame in the diet soda.. and literally dying a slow and miserable death

When she got to Florida March 22, all she had to take was one pill, and that was a pill for the Aspartame poisoning! She is well on her way to a complete recovery. And she is walking! No wheelchair! This article saved her life.If it says 'SUGAR FREE' on the label; DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE on 'ASPARTAME,' marketed as'Nutra Sweet,' 'Equal,' and 'Spoonful.'In the keynote address by the EPA, it was announced that in the United States in 2001 there is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus. It was difficult to determine exactly what toxin was causing this to be rampant. I stood up and said that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject.

I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous: When the temperature of this sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants. The methanol toxicity mimics, among other conditions, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus.

Many people were being diagnosed in error. Although multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, Methanol toxicity is!

Systemic lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers.The victim usually does not know that the Aspartame is the culprit. He or she continues its use; irritating the lupus to such a degree that it may become a life-threatening condition. We have seen patients with systemic lupus become asymptotic, once taken off diet sodas.

In cases of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, most of the symptoms disappear. We've seen many cases where vision loss returned and hearing loss improved markedly.

This also applies to cases of tinnitus and fibromyalgia. During a lecture, I said, 'If you are using ASPARTAME (Nutra Sweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting, pains, numbness in your legs,
Cramps,
Vertigo,
Dizziness,
Headaches,
Tinnitus,
Joint pain,
Unexplainable depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss you probably have ASPARTAME poisoning!' People were jumping up during the lecture saying,'I have some of these symptoms. Is it reversible?'

Yes!
Yes!
Yes!
STOP drinking diet sodas and be alert for Aspartame on food labels! Many products are fortified with it! This is a serious problem. Dr. Espart (one of my speakers) remarked that so many people seem to be symptomatic for MS and during his recent visit to a hospice; a nurse stated that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence!

Diet soda is NOT a diet product! It is a chemically altered, multiple SODIUM (salt) and ASPARTAME containing product that actually makes you crave carbohydrates.

It is far more likely to make you GAIN weight!

These products also contain formaldehyde, which stores in the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. Formaldehyde is an absolute toxin and is used primarily to preserve 'tissue specimens.'

Many products we use every day contain this chemical but we SHOULD NOT store it IN our body!

Dr. H. J. Roberts stated in his lectures that once free of the 'diet products' and with no significant increase in exercise; his patients lost an average of 19 pounds over a trial period.Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that some physicians, who believed that they had a patient with retinopathy, in fact, had symptoms caused by Aspartame. The Aspartame drives the blood sugar out of control. Thus diabetics may suffer acute memory loss due to the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are NEUROTOXIC when taken without the other amino acids necessary for a good balance.

Treating diabetes is all about BALANCE.. Especially with diabetics, the Aspartame passes the blood/brain barrier and it then deteriorates the neurons of the brain; causing various levels of brain damage, Seizures, Depression, Manic depression, Panic attacks, Uncontrollable anger and rage.Consumption of Aspartame causes these same symptoms in non-diabetics as well. Documentation and observation also reveal that thousands of children diagnosed with ADD and ADHD have had complete turnarounds in their behavior when these chemicals have been removed from their diet.

So called 'behavior modification prescription drugs' (Ritalin and others) are no longer needed.Truth be told, they were never NEEDED in the first place!Most of these children were being 'poisoned' on a daily basis with the very foods that were 'better for them than sugar.'It is also suspected that the Aspartame in thousands of pallets of diet Coke and diet Pepsi consumed by men and women fighting in the Gulf War, may be partially to blame for the well-known Gulf War Syndrome.

Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause birth defects, i.e. mental retardation, if taken at the time of conception and during early pregnancy. Children are especially at risk for neurological disorders and should NEVER be given artificial sweeteners.

There are many different case histories to relate of children suffering grand mal seizures and other neurological disturbances talking about a plague of neurological diseases directly caused by the use of this deadly poison.'

Herein lies the problem: There were Congressional Hearings when Aspartame was included in 100 different products and strong objection was made concerning its use. Since this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings, and still nothing has been done. The drug and chemical lobbies have very deep pockets.

Sadly, MONSANTO'S patent on Aspartame has EXPIRED! There are now over 5,000 products on the market that contain this deadly chemical and there will be thousands more introduced. Everybody wants a 'piece of the Aspartame pie.'I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of Aspartame, knows how deadly it is.

And isn't it ironic that MONSANTO funds, among others, the American Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic Association and the Conference of the American College of Physicians?

This has been recently exposed in the New York Times. These [organizations] cannot criticize any additives or convey their link to MONSANTO because they take money from the food industry and are required to endorse their products.Senator Howard Metzenbaum wrote and presented a bill that would require label warnings on products containing Aspartame, especially regarding pregnant women, children and infants.

The bill would also institute independent studies on the known dangers and the problems existing in the general population regarding seizures, changes in brain chemistry, neurological changes and behavioural symptoms.
The bill was killed.It is known that the powerful drug and chemical lobbies are responsible for this, letting loose the hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting and uninformed public. Well, you're informed now!"

petitegreek

Thanks everyone!

I don't drink THAT much pop where I think the aspartame can give me cancer. Like someone else said, you have to drink like 50 cans per day in order for that to happen.

stephgas

stellularj, source please. that seems like a personal story and is therefore inherently biased. i have friends who have told me that aspartame causes arthritis and that as soon as it gets out of my system, my arthritis will go away. i once cut all artificial sweeteners out of my diet for 3 weeks and nothing changed (except i missed my diet coke and low fat yogurt). i didn't lose any weight, my arthritis did not improve in the least, nothing. changed. at. all.

i'm not arguing that aspartame is perfectly safe for everyone - people have sensitivities to things. i know people who get migraines if they eat things with aspartame... or from the nitrates in bacon or hot dogs... i have a friend who has a sensitivity to gluten, but can drink imported beers and eat imported pasta (apparently US gluten is different... i don't know). aspartame may well cause issues for some people but, for the majority of people, it does not.

kellehbeans

I have recently cut down my consumption of diet Coke, mainly because of the aspartame and all the health risks around it (I suffer from extreme migraines, but these are never triggered by diet Coke or any other aspartame product). The only time when I drink loads of it at a time is at a pub, and I drink about 3 pints over the course of the night. Sounds extremely unhealthy, but it beats the alcohol (which, I don't like very much by the way). Other than that, over the past 6 months of my lifestyle change, I was drinking 1 can a day, maybe a bottle or two a day and I have lost 44lbs.

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