Diet Sodas- Is It Affecting My Weight Loss?

Everybody is different. I gave up diet pepis and lost 6 pounds that week. I'm pretty sure it was water, I believe for ME the soda was making me retain water.. Give it a try, what have you got to lose, but weight!

I'm a big water drinker but I do like to occasionally have a Diet 7UP or Diet A&W Rootbeer - and it hasn't affected my weight loss - I think everything in moderation is key here to.

I too was a diet soda lover!! What I realized, though, is that even though it is diet it still greatly affected my cravings for sweet and sugary things. I only learned this by completely eliminating sugar (real and artifical) from my diet for 30 days. Diet soda plays with my mood, my cravings, and my body's natural metabolism. Don't get me wrong - I LOVE SODA - but to me, I feel so much better without it, I gave it up. Now that I don't drink it - I don't crave it - at all. I do continue to drink coffee - a little more than I should.

Indeed; and having watched a good few, I find it incredibly rare that unbiased information is presented in such a way.
Which makes it irksome to watch as I KNOW they are trying to manipulate me through an easy medium.

Watch the documentary on Netflix "Hungry for Change"

Google this "aspartame converts to formaldehyde"

Methanol is a digestive byproduct of aspartame and methanol converts to formaldehyde due to a liver enzyme. Formaldehyde converts to formic acid which the body disposes of just fine.

Formaldehyde is produced by the body without aspartame already, in quantities much larger than you'd get from drinking a diet soda, and it's not anything to be concerned about despite it sounding scary.

^^^ This. Go with science, not bro or ho science.

Diet sodas aren't goo I am afraid and as soon as you stop them you should see and feel a difference. It's gonna be hard at first but you ll get use to water I did !!

But do you have any evidence behind that.
I did see a difference when I stopped drinking them - I found I was hungrier more of the time.

So I went back to drinking a drink that was 99% water - namely a diet soda .

As for the 'high sodium'. If we're talking 40 mg - that's MILI grams. That means forty THOUSANDTHS of a gram.
Really not a lot.

That's 40 miligrams per 8 ounces, not per bottle. So in a 20 oz bottle, that's actually 100 miligrams. The MAXIMUM recommended sodium for an adult is only 2,300 miligrams. Almost everything we eat naturally has sodium in it - let's not even get into processed food! - so, personally, I tend to avoid getting it through foods or beverages that have zero nutritional value. Who want's to retain water, lol?

I lost 19lbs when I made no change except stopped drinking Diet sodas. I was actually less active because of some arthritis issues and eating may have been the worst I had been in years. The loss just from cutting out the sodas gave me the jump start I needed to make some changes in my diet. Everyone is right that people are different but I have seen many people make a lot of progress by cutting out the carbonated beverages. Give it a try. What have you got to lose except weight!:happy:

I lost 19lbs when I made no change except stopped drinking Diet sodas. I was actually less active because of some arthritis issues and eating may have been the worst I had been in years. The loss just from cutting out the sodas gave me the jump start I needed to make some changes in my diet. Everyone is right that people are different but I have seen many people make a lot of progress by cutting out the carbonated beverages. Give it a try. What have you got to lose except weight!:happy:

Really no change in diet? Just cut out diet soda and 19lbs went away? :laugh:

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That's 40 miligrams per 8 ounces, not per bottle. So in a 20 oz bottle, that's actually 100 miligrams. The MAXIMUM recommended sodium for an adult is only 2,300 miligrams. Almost everything we eat naturally has sodium in it - let's not even get into processed food! - so, personally, I tend to avoid getting it through foods or beverages that have zero nutritional value. Who want's to retain water, lol?

Water retention is needed for muscle repair. I want to retain water.

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IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness industry for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition