Does Diet Soda keep you from losing weight?

I'm a diet soda drinker as well. I have a hard time loosing weight, but I don't think it has anything to do with the diet soda. I wouldn't give it up, even if it did, though. I would just workout a little more. Diet soda to me is like booze to an alcoholic! LOL!

I heard that the aspartame can cause weight gain...I love diet coke so I am in the same boat...I have been trying to drink more water though...maybe just for health sake, try to cut down on your soda? Maybe just 1 a day or every other day? Nestle pure life flavored water is pretty good if you dilute it in half....maybe try to replace some soda with this water and cut out a little of the flavor each week or something?

My main issue is that i know if i deprive myself of something im not going to stick with it. so since my diet drinks have 0h of carbs, calories, and sugar i still have them a few times a week. im not talking every meal though. maybe one every two days or so. but ALWAYS either diet and/or sugar free,

well i know on the news that the fake sugar that they use is linked to heart attacks, that scared the crap outta me when i heard it like a month ago....but todays world, everything is pretty much linked to heart attacks.....i would say try to stop drinkin for a week and see how u feel n if the scale says anything different n then the next week drink the diet soda and see what happens, like ur own lil experiment

It can, but I wouldn't say it's definite. Depends on how much you ingest, adequate water intake, and a lot of other things.
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There are so many reports on both sides. Personally, I place the most "weight" in how the stuff makes me feel over time (and how my smart pharmacist friend scientifically explains it). I feel better and have no cravings or low blood sugar days when I stay away from diet sodas and artificial sweetener in coffee or tea, or anything else. The body reacts to the sweetness, and signals the brain to release insulin, whether the sugar is real or not....which then leads to lower blood sugar and cravings, because the sugar wasn't real. I stay away from it because it makes me crave stuff...and because the chemicals keep your liver busy getting rid of them, rather than doing it's real job of processing nutrients and fats. "If it can not process the nutrients and fats that your body needs, this will cause you to gain weight, or will prevent you from losing weight." The body does very well in processing NATURAL sugars, like in real fruit--so that is a much better choice.

Plain coffee, by the way, contains oils that your body cannot digest, and is also responsible for triggering insulin release in the body...and other hormonal effects. I cut way down on the coffee, cut out the sweeteners in the one cup I may or may not have, and feel better...and started burning the fat, now. Not to say this is the same for everybody...it probably depends on tolerances, and how your body adapts over time...

I have been drinking Diet Colas every day for as long as I can remember!! Started with one a day, and then up to 5 or so. I can tell you in the past few days I've stopped all together, and I AM NO WHERE NEAR AS BLOATED. I did have a friend that stopped drinking soda and he lost 32 just for that over a year's time! Stay away from the soda, or just have a minimal amount as a treat. I think you will feel better!

Water hurts my stomach, so I have fell in love with Diet Dr. Pepper. I know it is bad, but I do not think it impedes my weight loss other than possible water retention.

I was a avid soda drinker and gave it up for lent. I have cheated a couple times but overall, i dropped an extra 10 lbs by cutting out diet soda. The artifical sweeteners do make you crave sweets so that may be another reason for it!

I love my diet soda and it doesnt affect me at all....even one time a couple years ago i stop drinking it for three months when i was on WW and it still didnt affect me in anyway!!!!!!!

honest truth to be told

sure you can drink diet soda... but if you have that, you shouldnt mix it with regular sugar (say you want something that has sugar in it) other than fruits.
there will be a chemical reaction to it. (which leads to not lose weight either you stay the same or you will gain).

so if you mix sugar with fake sugar, you will not lose the weight. even if it just a little. (but you can still lose weight by just watching what you eat and exercise) but if you wondering if that is preventing, you will have a little more hard time to lose the weight.

but its not impossible to lose it with the diet soda.

The chemicals in diet soda are really bad. Research for yourself...it stopped my addiction quickly.