Diet Soda's and Metabolic rate

I am a big diet cola fan. I never drink soda, but when I do it's a coke zero. I only recently started getting on this kick of craving it (Because it's free at work). I was wondering if drinking too much diet soda's (well artificial sweeteners in general) will hinder my weight loss? I heard many mixed things about it, and I have well over 5 packets of equal a day for my 2-3 coffee's and 1-2 coke zeros.

Aspartame should be illegal. Aspartame is turned into a compound that is used to help preserve bodies for the funneral. And when you drink aspartame your body converts aspartame into the compound. You're drinking poison when it comes to aspartame. I stopped getting these awful migraines when I stopped drinking anything with aspartame in it.

your call but personally for me, I wouldn't be caught dead drinking the stuff

Keep on trolling

It's giving my opinion it's not considered trolling

I'm allergic to it, it does make me sick and I pass out for fourteen hours. I simply stopped consuming anything with aspatame in it

Aspartame is turned into a compound that is used to help preserve bodies for the funneral. And when you drink aspartame your body converts aspartame into the compound.
your call but personally for me, I wouldn't be caught dead drinking the stuff

But according to your logic your very last drink will be lots of "the stuff"

Doesn't affect me, I say go for it...

Enjoy!

Food cravings? Really? A drink that does that...

Don't believe that hype, I drink coke zero constantly and I can bet in one week I eat far far less than what most of you guys have in 2 days...

If it increased my appetite, then why am I not hungry? Why am I going to a psychiatric ward for treatment because of the non eating and a few other issues?

Just drink it, be happy, and enjoy life, it's not worth this... It's not worth the obsessive calorie counts and training etc...

If it works for you, then do it. Enjoy ^_^


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Also to note, everyone dies of something, it's the journey that counts.

What's better? Living happy and doing what you want? Or doing as others tell you and living life miserably and dying miserable because you couldn't have or do what you wanted... Just because of some overreacting idiots...

I am a big diet cola fan. I never drink soda, but when I do it's a coke zero. I only recently started getting on this kick of craving it (Because it's free at work). I was wondering if drinking too much diet soda's (well artificial sweeteners in general) will hinder my weight loss? I heard many mixed things about it, and I have well over 5 packets of equal a day for my 2-3 coffee's and 1-2 coke zeros.

Aspartame should be illegal. Aspartame is turned into a compound that is used to help preserve bodies for the funneral. And when you drink aspartame your body converts aspartame into the compound. You're drinking poison when it comes to aspartame. I stopped getting these awful migraines when I stopped drinking anything with aspartame in it.

your call but personally for me, I wouldn't be caught dead drinking the stuff

Keep on trolling

It's giving my opinion it's not considered trolling

I'm allergic to it, it does make me sick and I pass out for fourteen hours. I simply stopped consuming anything with aspatame in it

You say you are allergic to it therefore it should be illegal and is poison and that isn't trolling? Riiiiight...

There are conflicting studies about the safety of aspartame and other artificial sweeteners. Personally, I found that drinking diet sodas with or without food made my blood sugar drop REALLY low. Caffeine can spike your blood sugar as well, and in this case I think the combination of caffeine and aspartame messed my body up. That said, I would get huge diet soda cravings for days after drinking one, even though I knew I didn't want it. Don't know what that was about.

Of course, this was before I started eating more consciously and exercising regularly, and I was having some debilitating blood sugar problems. I'd say I'd be interested to see what would happen now, but I know I'm still very sensitive to caffeine. Even a cup of green tea makes me jittery. That said, I don't necessarily trust food studies sponsored by large food corporations. I'll keep my consumption of artificial sweeteners down to a minimum.

do you even know the definition of trolling means?

Yup. Posting outlandish bull**** in order elicit a response. Your post hit the mark dead on. Also, if you "opinion" is that aspartame is poison you are wrong, It isn't.

I'm entitled to my opinion and beliefs and you're entitled to yours,

My 2 cents

If your opinions that it is poison you are wrong regardless of what you believe and the last thing people need on this site is misinformation.

people have a choice to believe it or not.

Yes and they and you would still be wrong and you would still be spreading disinformation. If you have any evidence to backup your claims by all means present it otherwise offering an uninformed misleading opinion is just bad form. Following your logic believing something = fact. Ummm.... no

Diet Soda will not affect your metabolic rate in any way shape or form. There are PEER-REVIEWED STUDIES in my post history you can go get if you want to see exactly what affects your metabolic rate.

Hold on brb, checking post history.

Oh wait........no one can check your post history if your page is set to private.

"PEER REVIEWED STUDIES"

Your memory serves you well MrM :drinker:

Many , way too many times in the past, I drank a 12 pack of canned diet colas in a day. I always thought it helped..but def not good for you otherwise. Diet Rite Cola... ... has NO sodium..so won't cause water gain.

but all sodas, diet or regular, don't contain more sodium than most foods.

Examples
Pepsi max - 14 mg per 100ml
Unsweetened blackcurrant juice - 10 mg per 100 ml
Low fat milk - 47 mg per 100 ml
Thousand island dressing - 950 mg per 100 ml
Honey - 15 mg per 100 ml

Now I realize these amounts will differ between brands but that is just random selection - the brands that happened to be in my house tonight.
But you can see sodium in diet soda is not huge, compared to other common liquids - for ease of comparison I used all liquids as all are per 100 ml.

If you don't want to drink soda - don't. But the sodium content is really not an issue.

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I am a big diet cola fan. I never drink soda, but when I do it's a coke zero. I only recently started getting on this kick of craving it (Because it's free at work). I was wondering if drinking too much diet soda's (well artificial sweeteners in general) will hinder my weight loss? I heard many mixed things about it, and I have well over 5 packets of equal a day for my 2-3 coffee's and 1-2 coke zeros.

I'm going to tell you the truth.

Everyone is different. Everyone responds differently to different chemicals. There may be absolutely no impact on you drinking a dozen cans of Coke Zero while for someone else there may be a big impact. The important thing to do is test it out and determine for yourself whether or not Coke Zero is having an impact on you. Not necessarily your metabolic rate, but the whole you.

I, personally, cannot have aspartame or sucralose or AceK as there is a chemical reaction in my body that gives me headaches. The severity of the headache is an indication of how much of the artificial sweetener I have consumed. Other people can drink it with no side effects. For every (what did that one commenter call it?) "peer reviewed" article saying that there is no impact I can find a corresponding article that says artificial sweeteners do have an impact. It depends on what you are trying to measure and the people in the experiment.

If you have a concern do a controlled experiment, try it yourself and make the right decision for you.

Basic biochemistry is the same for all humans within a narrow range unless they have a medical issue which causes a different biochemical reaction. Our bodies do not work differently except for outliers with abnormalities.

Marry me.

I already have the most amazing and awesome boyfriend in the world, and plan to marry the everliving f*** out of him when the time is right.We'll be serving diet soda at our wedding reception. But I'm sure you're nice too!

I'm entitled to my opinion and beliefs and you're entitled to yours,

My 2 cents

You're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.

Many , way too many times in the past, I drank a 12 pack of canned diet colas in a day. I always thought it helped..but def not good for you otherwise. Diet Rite Cola... ... has NO sodium..so won't cause water gain.

but all sodas, diet or regular, don't contain more sodium than most foods.

Examples
Pepsi max - 14 mg per 100ml
Unsweetened blackcurrant juice - 10 mg per 100 ml
Low fat milk - 47 mg per 100 ml
Thousand island dressing - 950 mg per 100 ml
Honey - 15 mg per 100 ml

Now I realize these amounts will differ between brands but that is just random selection - the brands that happened to be in my house tonight.
But you can see sodium in diet soda is not huge, compared to other common liquids - for ease of comparison I used all liquids as all are per 100 ml.

If you don't want to drink soda - don't. But the sodium content is really not an issue.

I will add one more to your list.

Tap water - 9mg per 100ml

Yeah, soda has about as much sodium in it as tap water. This is probably because they use tap water.

I am a big diet cola fan. I never drink soda, but when I do it's a coke zero. I only recently started getting on this kick of craving it (Because it's free at work). I was wondering if drinking too much diet soda's (well artificial sweeteners in general) will hinder my weight loss? I heard many mixed things about it, and I have well over 5 packets of equal a day for my 2-3 coffee's and 1-2 coke zeros.

Aspartame should be illegal. Aspartame is turned into a compound that is used to help preserve bodies for the funneral. And when you drink aspartame your body converts aspartame into the compound. You're drinking poison when it comes to aspartame. I stopped getting these awful migraines when I stopped drinking anything with aspartame in it.

your call but personally for me, I wouldn't be caught dead drinking the stuff

Hi Falcon.

To address your concerns related to "the compound that is used to help preserve bodies for the funeral" you are refering to formaldyhyde.

Aspartame is a methylated dipeptide and its structure is as follows:



Metabolic breakdown forms two amino acids (same as you would get from any protein source) and methanol. Methanol is further metabolized within the body by catalytic oxidation to form formaldyhyde (alternative name is methanal) which is the compound to which you refer.

At this point this is further converted into internet-angst and furor about the presense of formaldyhyde which is scary sounding and present in bad stuff. This reaction however is unwarranted and lacks two critical questions which need to be answered, ie "how much formaldyhyde" and "is that amount found in any other foods".

So the answer is as follows. The metabolic breakdown of methanol is 10% by weight methanol and given a can of soda has 180mg of aspartame that means a can has 18mg of methanol. This is far far FAR below the LD50 of methanol (meaning its non-toxic). In addition any fermentable food (which included fruit) has methanol in it and actually considerably more methanol. That means an apple or an orange has more methanol than a can of soda (and therefore more formadyhyde) and if you do something like drink orange juice then you get far FAR more than a can of soda. In addition any fruit in the process of fermenting (like raisins) has even more and if you go as far as to eat an actual fermented product (like cheese or yogurt or alcohol) the dose is huge relative to a can of soda. Now that comes with the caveat that all of these doses are tiny and insignificant and not harmful by any measure. If, however, you claim that the reason diet soda is "poison" is because of formaldyhyde then you are also saying that fruit is poison. If the presence of formaldhyde concerns you what do you think about the presence of arsenic in apples and the presence of cyanide in almonds? Would that make you immediately refer to apples and almonds as poison or would you take the next logical step and ask "how much arsenic?" and "how much cyanide?"

In terms of your allergic reaction for the sake of discussion I will just accept your anecdote that aspartame makes you pass out. This doesn't make it a poison. This doesn't mean it should be illegal. As has been pointed out many many people have an allergic reaction to peanuts so severe that it results in death unless immediately treated. Yet we don't consider peanuts a poison and they are not illegal. Why is that? That would be your answer there.

Your statement is logically flawed, hyperbolic and completely ignores what the OP was actually asking. The OP is a young woman who "enjoys" diet soda. If she enjoys it chances are she doesn't have a negative reaction to it so we can ignore that. The formaldyhyde thing is irrelevant as you get much more of that from many other foods including fruits which I assume you would not be passionately telling her to avoid. You rather irresponsibly put out misinformation and fear mongering in order to try to persuade the OP that it was vital for her to avoid something. If you want to avoid it fine, if it makes you sick then yeah don't drink it. That doesn't excuse this reaction or this behavior. When someone asks if something is safe and you say that it is poison when it isn't then yeah that is wrong and you should probably either apologize or substantiate your claim that it is poison.