Diet Coke?

I usually have about 20 oz of diet coke per day and I haven't had problems losing weight. And I've maintained my weight for over a year.

About a year ago, I switched to drinking more herbal teas (healthy, right?) Now my dental hygenist is complaining that I'm getting too much staining caused by the tea.

You can't win.

Meh. I've found it actually HELPS me not crave sweet stuff. If I'm craving sweets, I just take a swig of diet coke, and bam...I'm good to go. I just make sure I'm drinking equal amounts of water too :] IT does make me a little puffy...so I do keep it down to like one can (12oz) a day.

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!

Which artificial sweeteners do that? All of them?

Pretty much all artificial sweetener.

Seems legit.

I used to drink at least one diet soda a day. I cut it out from my diet completely and immediately dropped (and maintained a loss of) an additional 5 pounds. Now I'm used to drinking water or tea instead of soda and it doesn't taste good at all to me anymore.

Moderation. Think about it though - if it has less sugar, then what the hell do they have to put in it to make it so sweet?

I've read that using artificial sweeteners can have the same impact on your insulin levels as if you had sugar, and I've had a few people tell me they lost weight just by stopping diet soda, so I don't know (it never seemed to impact my weight that I was aware of).

I do know if you have a thyroid condition (as I do), caffeine can interfere with your body's absorption of your thyroid meds (I think that's the prob, anyway). Which didn't stop me from drinking loads of diet soda for years, but it probably wasn't a good idea. A couple of weeks ago I went cold turkey in favor of water and don't really miss the soda. I did add in, a few times a week, a cup of coffee with cream and 1 packet of Stevia (I've never been a coffee drinker in my life, but I can enjoy the coffee if there's cream without craving another cup anytime soon, as I would with diet soda). It gives me a little shot of caffeine that I need once in awhile. Other days, I have one cup of earl grey tea, no sweetener, to give me the boost of caffeine. I think I'm still doing a lot better than the caf I would get from several sodas a day (though I sometimes switched it up to caffeeine-free diet in the past, but for me that just leads me back to the kind with caffeine). I also try not to have the caffeine until several hours after taking my morning thyroid meds, and I used to have to grab a Coke Zero or Diet Dr. Pepper first thing in the morning to wake up.

I guess go with what you feel works for you, really. You could try stopping it for awhile and see what happens if you're curious.

tastes horrible though, if one glass every now and then is all you are going to have, you may aswell treat yourself to a proper glass of coke

~responding simply because I see said a lot~

Not everyone drinks diet coke as a no-cal substitute for regular Coke. I've always found regular Coke sickly sweet, took to Diet Coke when it came out because I preferred the taste to all the other sodas out there.

This. I really like the taste of Diet Dr. Pepper -- like, significantly more than Dr. Pepper.

I don't touch any soft drinks or caffeinated drinks, in a year I may consume 10 soft drinks, if that. Do I think it's that terrible for you? No, there are far more other things in your day to day life that are more dangerous or terrible for you than Diet Coke.

To me, it's just a matter of, I don't like it. I don't like wasting calories on it, so it's really just a personal preference. But your intake of it currently, is nothing to be concerned about.

I don't think it will hinder your diet as it has basically no calories, but personally i find that whenever I drink fizzy, caffeinated drinks, diet or otherwise, it messes up my skin. I would never say diet coke is healthy. If you drink it, just make sure you're still getting 6-9 glasses of water. Just because it's liquid doesn't mean it's hydrating

I don't think it will hinder your diet as it has basically no calories, but personally i find that whenever I drink fizzy, caffeinated drinks, diet or otherwise, it messes up my skin. I would never say diet coke is healthy. If you drink it, just make sure you're still getting 6-9 glasses of water. Just because it's liquid doesn't mean it's hydrating

It's hydrating.

I don't think it will hinder your diet as it has basically no calories, but personally i find that whenever I drink fizzy, caffeinated drinks, diet or otherwise, it messes up my skin. I would never say diet coke is healthy. If you drink it, just make sure you're still getting 6-9 glasses of water. Just because it's liquid doesn't mean it's hydrating

Coke is 90% water...where does the "hydration" go when you drink it?

Ever read "Water water everywhere and though the boards may shrink/
water water everywhere and not a drop to drink"? Solutions tend not to be hydrating bc osmosis. Soda is not a substitute for water

I'm shocked by all of the acceptance of diet sodas on this post. A quick google search will return thousands of results why your shouldn't be drinking soda. Didn't find any (that weren't ads from the company) saying you should. Here is a great article about the 7 worst effects.
http://healthyliving.msn.com/health-wellness/7-side-effects-of-drinking-diet-soda

If you don't care about your health and only dropping those pounds, here is why Diet Soda also causes obesity.
"Diet soda doesn't help you lose weight after all. A University of Texas Health Science Center study found that the more diet sodas a person drank, the greater their risk of becoming overweight. Downing just two or more cans a day increased waistlines by 500%. Why? Artificial sweeteners can disrupt the body's natural ability to regulate calorie intake based on the sweetness of foods, suggested an animal study from Purdue University. That means people who consume diet foods might be more likely to overeat, because your body is being tricked into thinking it's eating sugar, and you crave more."

Bottom line, if you can tolerate it and want to be truely healthy, avoid anything that didn't exist 500 years ago. Learn to love water!

I don't think it will hinder your diet as it has basically no calories, but personally i find that whenever I drink fizzy, caffeinated drinks, diet or otherwise, it messes up my skin. I would never say diet coke is healthy. If you drink it, just make sure you're still getting 6-9 glasses of water. Just because it's liquid doesn't mean it's hydrating

Coke is 90% water...where does the "hydration" go when you drink it?

Ever read "Water water everywhere and though the boards may shrink/
water water everywhere and not a drop to drink"? Solutions tend not to be hydrating bc osmosis. Soda is not a substitute for water

I know it's not a substitute for water. That wasn't what you said. You basically said that soda wasn't hydrating. There's a difference.

I'm shocked by all of the acceptance of diet sodas on this post. A quick google search will return thousands of results why your shouldn't be drinking soda. Didn't find any (that weren't ads from the company) saying you should. Here is a great article about the 7 worst effects.
http://healthyliving.msn.com/health-wellness/7-side-effects-of-drinking-diet-soda

If you don't care about your health and only dropping those pounds, here is why Diet Soda also causes obesity.
"Diet soda doesn't help you lose weight after all. A University of Texas Health Science Center study found that the more diet sodas a person drank, the greater their risk of becoming overweight. Downing just two or more cans a day increased waistlines by 500%. Why? Artificial sweeteners can disrupt the body's natural ability to regulate calorie intake based on the sweetness of foods, suggested an animal study from Purdue University. That means people who consume diet foods might be more likely to overeat, because your body is being tricked into thinking it's eating sugar, and you crave more."

Bottom line, if you can tolerate it and want to be truely healthy, avoid anything that didn't exist 500 years ago. Learn to love water!

Nectarines and pluots didnt exsist 500 years ago, I refuse to give those up