Diet Coke?

For m it is. My belly gets super bloated after a can of diet soda. I have problems to digest anything that I eat after the soda. I blame the artificial sweeteners. Stuff from hell!

Does it make you retain water? Gain weight? Will one glass a week really cause me harm?

In order: No. No. No.

I drink about 3-5 cans' worth every day. I seem to be doing OK.

People who are saying No are crazy.

Let's not go blatantly insulting people in your first 20 posts.

Wasn't meant to be an insult, more like "What?!! How can you not think it is bad for you?" Sorry if anyone is "offended by the word crazy."

Obviously there are a million things you could consume that could be "bad" for you, but I really think pop/soda is one of the worst. I feel a lot better NOT drinking it every day. Maybe it depends on the person....but it made me bloat & feel sluggish.

You can't cut out all the bad things, but for me pop was the first to go. Will I ever have it again? Oh, I'm sure. But as the poster asked, I think it is one of the most unhealthy things you can put into your body by choice.

Everything in moderation. I usually indulge in 1 or 2 glasses a week. I believe I had an addiction to it and lived on diet coke. I never equated it to my constant annoying mild headaches. However, once I gave up diet coke on a regular basis, the headaches went away. I was probably sensitive to the artificial sweetener.

Now when I indulge, it is from a fountain source and I mix half coke and half coke zero and enjoy it.

There is some science/concern that the phospates (fizzies) has been shown to leach calcium which is a concern for woman but I believe everything in moderation.

If coke, diet coke or whatever controls you, then it is bad for you and that needs to be addressed.

For ME - personally - yes, it's a bad thing. For others, probably not.

At one point in my life, I was drinking a case - yes, a CASE, 24 cans - of Diet Coke a day. That is overkill. That would be overkill for ANYONE. Why did I drink it so much? I'm not sure I can really give a good reason other than that it was zero calories and it had a "taste" factor (unlike water, which at the time, I wouldn't drink because it was "tasteless", "no flavor", etc.). I've since learned that you can put lemon slices, orange slices, etc., in water and now that's all I drink.

It even got to the point where I could tell whether the Diet Coke was 'sweeter' than usual, or more 'carbonated' than usual, etc. That's definitely a sign that you just plain drink too much of it!

I've been dC-free since January 1. I don't have an objection to others drinking it (or anything else, it's an individual thing) - if you can handle it, you like the taste of it, if you don't drink a case a day like I did - bottoms up. But I do think that there might be SOMETHING to the "addictive" principle - after a while, you crave it to the point where you get headaches if you DON'T have one. (This happened to me.)

So, no, I don't necessarily think it's bad in general. For ME, however? Never touching one again.

ETA: I also HATED the taste of regular soda. Couldn't tolerate it, I preferred the diet drinks. I'm now sticking to water, unsweetened tea, and milk. No juice, though (I'm diabetic).

What are people's opinion on Diet Coke with Splenda vs. regular Diet Coke? I have about 3 Diet Cokes with Splenda per day currently. I like the taste better than the Aspartame version and I don't get the headaches I would sometimes get with regular Diet Coke.

I'm sure it's maybe not the healthiest thing but I don't find that it makes me crave more sugar.