Anyone ever LOST weight QUITTING DIET COLA?
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I got stuck on a plateau when I cut out my diet dr peppers. I found I was having a really hard time with snack cravings in the evening and during football games especially. When I went back to my nightly soda, I killed most of the cravings and I generally eat about 200 less calories on the days I drink my beloved diet dr pepper.0
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I tried a cup or two of coffee but the headache just stayed put. I'm thinking gradually weaning down might be a better option for me. I drank almost a 2 liter a day of regular soda for the better part of 3 years or more so maybe cold turkey wasn't quite the right idea.0
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Aspartame is pretty much as evil as evil gets.
Diet soda (pop) that has aspartame in it can actually change your hormonal/brain chemistry in such way, that is makes you hungrier in a long run. And it affects the rest of the body in many negative ways as well. Tons of articles here:
http://search.mercola.com/search/pages/Results.aspx?k=aspartame
Also watch the movie: Hungry for Change (super enlightening as far as nutrition goes)
Mercola? Whew. I'm glad you didn't get your source someplace *totally* crazy...
Diet soda will not make you fat, change your brain chemistry, eat holes in your teeth or anything of the like. You can and will lose weight drinking it. It's not evil and has no agenda.0 -
I used to drink one Diet Pepsi with Splenda a day. Pepsi took this product off the market recently because it had something carcinogenic in it and I stopped drinking diet soda for the first time in over 20 years. After a few days of difficulty missing my morning fizz and cafein, I got used to not having my morning soda. Two weeks later, my constantly extended stomach disappeared, and then I started to lose weight without even trying!! My stomach discomfort, and gas disappeared also. I am totally surprised by what is happening.
My friends used to tell me not to drink soda because it is bad for me but I never believed them until now!!0 -
I used to drink a good 2-4 litres of diet coke/pepsi every day. I stopped immediately when I started my diet in April and I've lost 70lbs since then and not looked back at them
They might be calorie free, but that doesn't mean they are good. It was generally what went with them that was the problem, chocolate always tasted so much nicer with a diet pepsi...0 -
So far I've lost 114 lbs - and I indulge in my diet coke/diet dr. pepper a few times a week. To me, it's my sweet treat.0
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I've quit artificial sweeteners before for several months-like maybe 6 or months. No affect on weight loss... no affect on cravings. I actually find that a little something sweet, even with artificial sweetener helps satisfy a craving for sweet stuff.0
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I ceased diet drinks and lost weight, but I really don't know if that had any effect on my progress. People debate this issue endlessly, and for me, I just decided that green tea and water with lemon was my beverage of choice.
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BarbaraCarr1981 wrote: »Hello,
I was just wondering if anyone ever actually lost weight solely by giving up the Diet pop??? They say aspartame makes us want more carbs/sugar - maybe so BUT what if we quit Diet pop, does it make us want less sugary stuff? Do we lose weight or lose weight more quickly after quitting the diet pop?
I don't care what others say - I lost 9 pounds the first week off diet dr pepper. I was drinking a 2-liter per day. sometimes more. I quit and started drinking water - I know that the 9 pounds was probably water-weight, but hey - it has really helped me stay focused drinking only water. I know the carbonation and caffeine and artificial sweetener just isn't good for you! Good luck!
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OP is from 2 years ago.0
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No not at all. I only drank one a day but stopping that has not made a difference to me.0
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People can argue until the cows come home about regular pop vs diet pop but the simple fact remains that if you are drinking 6-7 cans of ANY pop a day you have a problem....
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No. I switched from regular soda to diet in order to help me lose weight. And it worked.0
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Yes! I was a huge Diet Dr Pepper, Diet Mt Dew and Coke Zero drinker. A few liters a day! When I cut out soda completely I lost a lot. Then when I cut out all sugars and splenda I lost even more.0
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I actually ate more carbs and junk when I quit drinking diet pop. I've tried it both ways, just to see if there was any truth to what people say. I didn't find any and ended up eating more. So I went back to drinking it. It helps with my cravings.0
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I don't care what others say - I lost 9 pounds the first week off diet dr pepper. I was drinking a 2-liter per day. sometimes more. I quit and started drinking water - I know that the 9 pounds was probably water-weight, but hey - it has really helped me stay focused drinking only water. I know the carbonation and caffeine and artificial sweetener just isn't good for you! Good luck!
Dr Pepper (diet and regular) has 100mg of sodium/591ml, your loss was probably water weight as you suspected, from removing a substantial amount of salt from your diet.
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I will say that I quit drinking diet pop (again) several days ago. Two days after I stopped drinking it, I dropped 9 lbs overnight. Weirdest thing. The only change was not drinking the diet pop. That's just my way cool experience with not drinking it. 0
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I did. I stopped drinking diet coke april 2012. Dropped 6-8 lbs.0
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Down 38lbs and I drink diet pepsi daily. I don't find it makes me crave anything.0
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Not sure what you're asking exactly, but if eliminating a zero calorie substance from your diet is the only change you make, you're not going to lose weight.0
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Aspartame is pretty much as evil as evil gets.
Diet soda (pop) that has aspartame in it can actually change your hormonal/brain chemistry in such way, that is makes you hungrier in a long run. And it affects the rest of the body in many negative ways as well. Tons of articles here:
http://search.mercola.com/search/pages/Results.aspx?k=aspartame
Also watch the movie: Hungry for Change (super enlightening as far as nutrition goes)
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Zombie thread.
But since no one seems to care, I quit drinking diet soda for a while in February and lost 2-3 lbs per week. Pretty sure it's because I also cut my calories to 1250 at the same time, though. I subsequently added back in some diet soda and my rate of loss did not change.
Maybe some find that diet soda makes them crave sugar more, but I do not.0 -
People can argue until the cows come home about regular pop vs diet pop but the simple fact remains that if you are drinking 6-7 cans of ANY pop a day you have a problem....
Why?? Show me scientific proof that this is the case. I just took a look at the ingredients in my Cherry Coke Zero, very first ingredient is carbonated water. So the first ingredient is water. Yes there are some other chemicals in there, caffeine for example, but the primary is still water.
Now, I do know if I was a rat and I drank the equivalent of a 140+ cans I might have a problem, but that is just crazy talk, so probably not going to happen.
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I am/ was seriously hooked on diet soda. I have cut it in half or maybe even more. My weight loss rate hasn't changed. I did go thru about 2 weeks of increased hunger that was almost never satisfied despite even increasing calories. I did not see a gain from the food. I wasn't craving anything in particular just close to dying from hunger.0
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After quitting drinking diet soda several months ago, I have noticed that my taste buds are more sensitive to the natural sweetness of fruits and vegetables, so they taste heavenly, and I'm completely satisfied with just a sweet potato, apple or even corn. I also noticed that I could no longer stand the taste of my chewy chocolate calcium "candy". (Ick!) Since, I'm maintaining my weight, I don't know if it would help me actually lose weight, but I think it's helping me maintain my weight loss.
However, I don't think drinking diet soda prevented me from losing weight during the 15+ years that I drank it. (I did lose wiehgt while drinking it and maintain a 60 lb loss for 3 years). But, MAYBE, it would have been easier to resist sweets if I had stopped drinking it earlier. I don't know, because I still have an addiction to sugar and can't have easy access to sweets.
Just a side note: When I quit drinking it, I went through a very bad withdrawal for about 10-14 days, and it WAS NOT caffeine withdrawal-- I drank 5-6 cans of diet 7-up every day (no caffeine). I had headaches, felt "foggy", sleepy, fatigued, and even went to the doctor to get blood work done before I realized that that it was aspartame withdrawal. (I drank one pop after the first 7 days and was immediately "cured" of my symptoms within just 1 hour.) I decided that if aspartame can cause me to feel so terrible after quitting it, I'm done with it for good and will never ingest it again.
I can relate to the symptoms you had plus extremely hungry.0 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »Zombie thread.
But since no one seems to care, I quit drinking diet soda for a while in February and lost 2-3 lbs per week. Pretty sure it's because I also cut my calories to 1250 at the same time, though. I subsequently added back in some diet soda and my rate of loss did not change.
Maybe some find that diet soda makes them crave sugar more, but I do not.
D'oh... I didn't even see that with the new layout.
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I can speak for myself only on this one... I don't think having artificially sweetened items made me fat but I do know that when I eat a product with artificial sweeteners, I feel particularly hungry throughout the day. That's not terribly scientific but I have cut out all artificial sweeteners. The jury might be out, officially, on whether they are good/bad for you but you certainly can't go wrong by avoiding them.0
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I cold turkey soda on my first day. Not sure if it helped in my progress but it did make the way for me to have water as my main fluid intake which is great.
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doesn't affect my weight at all I drink a diet drink most days and have a coffee with sweetener every day. i don't know how legit this 'sweeteners cause cravings thing' is , but Imo I think it's a psychological thing from just hearing about it everywhere. 'psychosomatic' as one might say...
: I don't have cravings for sugar either, I'm a cheese fan
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