Soda. Diet or regular??

i have 2-3 diet cokes a day along with 1-2 cups of coffee,4-6 glasses of water and 2-3 glasses of tea....wow i drink a lot!

If you want it, have it! You can't expect to be successful if you deprive yourself of what you like. That being said, if you notice that it is causing your weight loss to slow down or stall, you might want to rethink how many times a week you allow yourself to indulge.

I was able to lose 88 lbs in 2008 and I drank a regular soda almost every day. It's not the best choice for you but it can be done.

I used to drink about 6 sodas a day. I switched to diet soda and still drink about 4 a day, but that alone has helped me lose a ton of weight. my theory, as long as you workout and exercise daily.. Eat, Drink, and be Merry!

I had heard that diet drinks and artificial sweeteners are actually worse. There all chemically! Last week I stopped drinking soda all together. I have seltzer with fresh fruit slices now....I lost 6 lbs! I imagine it was water retention...you could also try to sek out all natural sodas and look for things with stevia or agave based sweeteners like stevia and truvia.

If you want it, have it! You can't expect to be successful if you deprive yourself of what you like. That being said, if you notice that it is causing your weight loss to slow down or stall, you might want to rethink how many times a week you allow yourself to indulge.

I was able to lose 88 lbs in 2008 and I drank a regular soda almost every day. It's not the best choice for you but it can be done.

I have to disagree, Maybe a cheat day or something but I don't think people can make a lifestyle change if they do change. If nothing changes then nothing changes.

I could never give up soda. Do what works for you. I drink about 3 cans of diet soda a day and I'm still going strong!

Sorry this is a long one. But when I was in school for Massage therapy I was told about the Aspartame that is in Diet soda and it isn't good for you. Here is a thing I found on it when I googled it.
Good luck.

Is Diet Coke bad for you? »
Oct 26, 2002 - 14:08 UTC » Health and Medicine
Gosuke sent me this interesting link. It is about the dangers of Aspartame. Nutrasweet in the US and "Pal Sweet Diet" in Japan are Aspartame. Aspartame is an active ingredient in Diet Coke which I drink A LOT of. I am going to definitely take dive into the links on this page. If what this page says is true, I probably should stop drinking Diet Coke today...

I have attached some of the highlights from the page below, but I would go to their page which has a lot of links if you currently drink a lot of diet soda products.

Continue reading Is Diet Coke bad for you?.
Here are some highlights from the page:

Aspartame is poison!
Aspartame/Nutrasweet is not very sweet in itself, that may be why Equal puts Dextrose (sugar) and maltodextrin as the first ingredients, so that it tastes sweet.

Aspartame/Nutrasweet is a brain drug that stimulates your brain so you think that the food you're eating tastes sweet. If you pay attention you'll notice that when using Aspartame/Nutrasweet, everything you eat at the same time also tastes sweet! This may be why Aspartame/Nutrasweet causes you to crave carbohydrates. Hence, you won't lose weight using it.
BTW, cyclamates got pulled off the market in the 70's in the US (but not Canada or the rest of the world) because the sugar industry saw too much of their market disappear.

Aspartame/Nutrasweet (aspartylphenylalanine-methyl-ester) breaks down to its poison constituents at 86 degrees (Aspartic Acid 40%, Phenylalanine 50%, and Methanol 10%). Remember your stomach is at 98.6 degrees! Therefore you should never use Aspartame/Nutrasweet in hot beverages or cooked foods such as Jello. How the FDA allows this remains a mystery. There is mounting evidence that the "Burning Mouth Syndrome" experienced by the Desert Storm troops was actually Methanol poisoning from the Diet Coke they drank lots of, after being exposed to desert temperatures.

Aspartame/Nutrasweet's 10% Methanol appears in the body quickly and is the same alcohol (wood alcohol also in lacquer thinner), that your mother correctly warned you could make you blind. Many skid-row alcoholics had major problems with this cheap but deadly form of alcohol.

Aspartame/Nutrasweet's 40% Aspartic Acid is an "excitotoxin" in the brain and excites neurons to death, i.e. it kills brain cells and causes other nerve damage.

Aspartame/Nutrasweet triggers Migraine Headaches This even happened to me!. The Usenet is filled with posts by people who have pinned their migraines down to aspartame/Nutrasweet consumption.

Aspartame/Nutrasweet's breakdown products attack the bodies tissues and create Formaldehyde which builds up in the tissues forever. Remember the smelly, eye watering fumes from the frogs you dissected in school? They were preserved with Formaldehyde! Formaldehyde is thought to cause cancer.
The American Bottlers Association did not want the FDA to approve Aspartame/Nutrasweet because of what the test report showed. But the FDA approved it anyway!

Airline pilots stay away from Aspartame/Nutrasweet because they are well aware of the documented dangers.
Aspartame/Nutrasweet also breaks down to diketopiperazine [DKP] which is proven to cause Brain Tumors! Brain Tumors used to be rare. Several of the rats in the original study formed brain tumors during their Aspartame/Nutrasweet exposure. The researchers surgically removed the tumors and returned the rats to the study and discounted the tumors.

I drink regular Dr. Pepper. I have found that if i completely cut it out i feel very deprived and usually make up the calories in food that is not good for me. I have decided to allow myself 1 12oz can a day if i want it. I am still struggling because all i used to drink was soda, my friends told me i need a dr. pepper iv. lol. I think it is just what ever works for you. good luck.

I used to drink 2L a day (a big bottle) of regular pop. I gave it up for 40 days last year cold turkey and I immediately dropped 25 lbs with little effort. I don't drink it every day, usually only when we eat out although I'm moving more and more just asking for water with my meals. I feel less sluggish and actually don't crave it in any form anymore. When I do get pop, I do get Coke Zero only because I'm IR and sugar sends my insulin into overdrive and it doesn't turn off. I'm reading more and more though that intake of the sugar substitutes are registered by our bodies as toxins, which causes the metabolism to slow down. One of the functions of body fat is to store toxins away from the organs where they could cause damage. By continuing to consume them, we're actually encouraging the body to store the toxins into new fat cells......that sounds like the opposite of what I'm trying to do.....

Some of the sites I've been reading:
http://www.sbbiomechanics.com/nl_sugar substitutes.htm

You could also buy or make the fruit juice and add sparkling water Just make sure to check the sugars if that's the reason that you went off regular pop in the first place

I was totally addicted to diet soda (probably at least 3 cans a day).... and completely cut them out. Now I drink water with a wedge of lemon in it. I feel SO much better .... less bloated, fewer to NO cravings for sweets etc. I vote for cutting all sodas out. If I can do it, you can too!!

Buy a bottle of seltzer water and mix 2-3oz of (unsweetened, natural) juice into it. It'll kill your body's sugar cravings, provide way more nutrients, and be way lower on the calorie scale. A 12oz glass of seltzer water with half a lemon squeezed into it is a whopping 30-or-so calories and tastes WAY better than Sprite or 7up.