Diet Coke!! good or bad?

Yup! ANY kind of soda isnt good for you. I cut ALL of it out and it made a huge difference.

heck yes it would!! it has tons of artificial sweeteners. When i cut sodas out (except for once in a blue moon), I dropped 5-8 lbs pretty quickly...

Just say No! LOL You have to focus on being healthy not just cutting calories. Soda is full of junk and not good for you at all. You will certainly benefit from totattly cutting it out.

I talked to my nutritionalist about this exact fact yesterday. She said one a day will not hurt, but if you're getting up to 6 cans a day. (Like me w/ dt pepsi), then it's definately not a good thing. So in moderation its ok, but try to drink 10x more water than the soda!
It doesn't have any nutritional value, so dispite the carbonation and caffeine, it's pretty pointless! Good luck. I just finished my 1st whole week without soda... so far I'm going strong!

I think it depends on the person. Some people get really bad cravings from drinking diet soda. I drink one diet coke a day still and it hasn't affected my weight loss or stalled it at all. At the same time my "diet buddy" cut hers out completely and she is also doing great but that's because all she ever wanted after a diet coke was ice cream/cake/pastries or aka the "sweet craving" you can get from drinking aspartame.

any soda is garbage I stopped drinking them in january and havn't looked back nothing but water not even tea just water I feel great and you will too when you kick them to the curb!!!!!!

Nope... at least not for me.. I allow myself 1 diet soda a day, and I did an experiement and cut that out and it did not matter with or without the soda...

I say moderation is the key to anything.

Hands down--soda is junk, diet or not. The regular soda is full of sugar and the diet soda is full of fake sugar which 1. is bad for your body because its a man-made chemical and 2. is sweeter than sugar. It's bad that it's sweeter than sugar because your body gets used to that level of hyper-sweetness, which actually makes you crave extremely sweet things all the time. Also, soda and water are like apples and oranges. Replacing soda with water will certainly help your weight loss, as water hydrates you, flushes out your system, makes you feel full, etc. The way I get my flavor/carbonation is by drinking flavored seltzer water. The flavor is natural and the carbonation gives you the sense of soda without all the negatives. I couldn't live without my seltzer!!!

So can I ask a question then? If you don't drink diet soda b/c of aspertame or whatever, what is your take on drinking crystal light with other fake sugars?

I know that DC in excess isn't good for me, however, I only allow myself 1 a day and that one stretches out over several class periods. I also don't drink coffee (yuk) so DC is my "coffee."

Heck, I'm sure there is a study somewhere that says air, lettuce and exercise are bad for us too - the bottom line is to be smart about what you consume. Too much of anything is a bad thing, but some vices in small amounts might keep you from feeling deprived.

Soda should be considered a 'treat'. If you really crave it, have one. Don't drink it everyday just because it's there ya know? Water is much healthier. Some people who are addicted to caffeine have withdrawal headaches. So if you drink diet coke on a regular basis I would say to gradually decrease it instead of stopping cold turkey.

I think I concur with everyone about soda being bad for you & having ingredients that are not good for you. Water is way better, cleans you system & slowly but surely rids your body of toxins that have accumulated over a period of time. Water aids in weight loss & has many benefits over any other drink.. so YES to water & NO to Soda.

Diet soda has never really tasted "good" to me. I've given up on it.

My wife and I make a pot of tea in the coffee maker once a week and dump that it into a 2L pitcher 2/3 full of ice.

8 tea bags where you normally put the coffee, brew normally. Dump carafe full of "hot tea concentrate" into pitcher and voila! Iced tea!

This doesn't really apply to diet soda, but diet soda is still soda. Chugging soda is one of the easiest ways to pack on the pounds (the average can contains 10 teaspoons of sugar). But drinking as few as two soft drinks a week can nearly double a person’s risk of getting pancreatic cancer, too. That’s the finding of a study published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, according to a report on e-how.com. Want more bad news? Consuming more than 2.5 sugary sodas per day significantly increases your risk of death from cardiovascular disease as well as your risk of developing diabetes.