Can't stop the Diet Soda!

Just try to ween yourself off the diet as well as the SI. Like you noted it has chemicals (artificial sweetner) and they alter how your body's systems work and not in a good way. It's hard I know, my biggest obstacle is coffee/w flavored creamer. You can do it. Also remember water is your friend. I use True lemon in my water or Crystal Light (Pure) made with stevia.

You can loose weight with it. But i dont think any soda is good for you everyday. Just try to get your self down to one a day if u can if you are worried about it:)

I drink about 20 oz per day of diet coke. I've lost almost 100

I drink about 20 oz per day of diet coke. I've lost almost 100

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When I don't drink diet soda I have fewer sugar/carb cravings. I got a SodaStream machine and am trying to drink bubbly water with maybe a little lemon extract in it. Surprisingly, the bubbles really hit the thirst-quenching spot for me.

Try sparkling water. Or the lemonade packs with 5 calories works for me with 2 pinch of flavor

When I don't drink diet soda I have fewer sugar/carb cravings. I got a SodaStream machine and am trying to drink bubbly water with maybe a little lemon extract in it. Surprisingly, the bubbles really hit the thirst-quenching spot for me.

This. I found my need for diet soda was really about the carbonation. Got a SodaStream and haven't looked back. 9 times out of 10 I don't even add anything to it. If I *need* that flavor, SodaStream's non-diet versions are made with true sugar, not HFCS, and have about 1/4 the calories of traditional sodas and taste as good IMO. Their diet versions are Splenda-based.
The research (real research, not quoting Bodybuilding websites) is wishy-washy on artificial sweeteners so I'm not panicked about them but I do try to ingest mostly real food when i can. The research on a link to obesity seems to be the most solid, but if you're actual tracking your daily calories and stay within your goal, shouldn't be an issue.

apparently if you pump a a rat with three times its body weight in aspartame everyday for a month it gets pretty unhealthy, strange ... anyway ive been drinking it everyday since i started losing weight and well look at the ticker i personally think if it helps you adhere to your diet then even it is a bit unhealthy for you its still the less of two evils so im just gonna kick back with my diet pepsi and watch everyone tell you how unhealthy it is:) ...also watch out for metabolic syndrome that stuffs a killer

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amen to that^^

Diet soda is worst for you than regular soda. You really should do some research on it and maybe that will help kick your habit!!!

Sounds like you're the one that needs to do some research (and I mean peer-reviewed, not some Google search).

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

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/007492.htm

There are studies linking everything to cancer and general lack of wellbeing. Who pays scientists to do studies? Most are paid from large industries. Health and supplement industries are a huge backer. Why? Health sells. Be careful not to be lured into bad studies with negligble results.

The link above is the National Library of Medicine/ National Institutes of Health. This is their official word on sweeteners.

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/artificial-sweeteners

Aspartame

Aspartame, distributed under several trade names (e.g., NutraSweet® and Equal®), was approved in 1981 by the FDA after numerous tests showed that it did not cause cancer or other adverse effects in laboratory animals. Questions regarding the safety of aspartame were renewed by a 1996 report suggesting that an increase in the number of people with brain tumors between 1975 and 1992 might be associated with the introduction and use of this sweetener in the United States. However, an analysis of then-current NCI statistics showed that the overall incidence of brain and central nervous system cancers began to rise in 1973, 8 years prior to the approval of aspartame, and continued to rise until 1985. Moreover, increases in overall brain cancer incidence occurred primarily in people age 70 and older, a group that was not exposed to the highest doses of aspartame since its introduction. These data do not establish a clear link between the consumption of aspartame and the development of brain tumors.

In 2005, a laboratory study found more lymphomas and leukemias in rats fed very high doses of aspartame (equivalent to drinking 8 to 2,083 cans of diet soda daily) (1). However, there were some inconsistencies in the findings. For example, the number of cancer cases did not rise with increasing amounts of aspartame as would be expected. An FDA statement on this study can be found at http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/2006/ucm108650.htm on the Internet.

Subsequently, NCI examined human data from the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study of over half a million retirees. Increasing consumption of aspartame-containing beverages was not associated with the development of lymphoma, leukemia, or brain cancer (2).
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OP, you're fine....drink the diet soda if you want it. Just don't drink 8 to 2,083 cans of soda every day Especially if you are a lab rat

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/007492.htm

There are studies linking everything to cancer and general lack of wellbeing. Who pays scientists to do studies? Most are paid from large industries. Health and supplement industries are a huge backer. Why? Health sells. Be careful not to be lured into bad studies with negligble results.

The link above is the National Library of Medicine/ National Institutes of Health. This is their official word on sweeteners.

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/artificial-sweeteners

Aspartame

Aspartame, distributed under several trade names (e.g., NutraSweet® and Equal®), was approved in 1981 by the FDA after numerous tests showed that it did not cause cancer or other adverse effects in laboratory animals. Questions regarding the safety of aspartame were renewed by a 1996 report suggesting that an increase in the number of people with brain tumors between 1975 and 1992 might be associated with the introduction and use of this sweetener in the United States. However, an analysis of then-current NCI statistics showed that the overall incidence of brain and central nervous system cancers began to rise in 1973, 8 years prior to the approval of aspartame, and continued to rise until 1985. Moreover, increases in overall brain cancer incidence occurred primarily in people age 70 and older, a group that was not exposed to the highest doses of aspartame since its introduction. These data do not establish a clear link between the consumption of aspartame and the development of brain tumors.

In 2005, a laboratory study found more lymphomas and leukemias in rats fed very high doses of aspartame (equivalent to drinking 8 to 2,083 cans of diet soda daily) (1). However, there were some inconsistencies in the findings. For example, the number of cancer cases did not rise with increasing amounts of aspartame as would be expected. An FDA statement on this study can be found at http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/2006/ucm108650.htm on the Internet.

Subsequently, NCI examined human data from the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study of over half a million retirees. Increasing consumption of aspartame-containing beverages was not associated with the development of lymphoma, leukemia, or brain cancer (2).
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OP, you're fine....drink the diet soda if you want it. Just don't drink 8 to 2,083 cans of soda every day Especially if you are a lab rat

What if you're a hood rat?:laugh:

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You would have to drink quite a bit of aspartame to get methanol or formaldehyde poisoning,. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp

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

Just a few.