Aspartame

EJVaiese
EJVaiese Posts: 2
edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I just found this out and thought I'd share it. I thought aspartame products were an alternative for things like soda and what not, because it is calorie free. But I found out that it can actually make you gain weight by slowing your metabolism and making your body crave carbohydrates more than it should. So if you thought choosing to drink diet soda instead of regular soda as a way to lose weight AND have soda, I would reconsider! I'm glad I found this out before I took a sip of this flavored carbonated water (with aspartame.) Sugar free gum also contains aspartame most of the time. No more gum for me :(

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  • Crystal817
    Crystal817 Posts: 2,021 Member
    :indifferent: :yawn:
  • Noctuary
    Noctuary Posts: 255
    *waits for the aspartame nazis to come.

    *sips diet dr pepper
  • Mad_Dog_Muscle
    Mad_Dog_Muscle Posts: 1,251 Member
    yep!! And thats why I have been off Diet soda for over a month now..... plus its nothing but chemical sludge.
  • Mad_Dog_Muscle
    Mad_Dog_Muscle Posts: 1,251 Member
    *waits for the aspartame nazis to come.

    *sips diet dr pepper
    LOL I guess I am the first?? :bigsmile:
  • Noctuary
    Noctuary Posts: 255
    *waits for the aspartame nazis to come.

    *sips diet dr pepper
    LOL I guess I am the first?? :bigsmile:
    Yup. I'm Diabetic. Sugar will kill me way before aspartame. So I'll keep sipping it I guess. And I don't have a sweet tooth. I have a carb tooth!
  • Mad_Dog_Muscle
    Mad_Dog_Muscle Posts: 1,251 Member
    *waits for the aspartame nazis to come.

    *sips diet dr pepper
    LOL I guess I am the first?? :bigsmile:
    Yup. I'm Diabetic. Sugar will kill me way before aspartame. So I'll keep sipping it I guess. And I don't have a sweet tooth. I have a carb tooth!
    Oh I am with you on the carb train!!! I cant get off that one!! I love my carbs!
  • Losingitin2011
    Losingitin2011 Posts: 572 Member
    It gives me terrible nausea and a belly ache from hell. There is sugar free gum with Xylitol or something that seems to be relatively ok so far. If I do diet anything, I try to at least splenda.

    *waits for the splenda nazis to join the aspartame nazis for coffee*
  • chels1605
    chels1605 Posts: 206 Member
    Aspartame is in EVERYTHING not just fizzy drinks! There are loads of scare stories that it causes cancer (what doesn't these days!)

    You'll find it in anything sugar free... or reduced sugar!
  • Losingitin2011
    Losingitin2011 Posts: 572 Member
    I heard oxygen causes cancer. Everyone stop breathing. NAO. DO IT.

    :laugh:
  • Crystal817
    Crystal817 Posts: 2,021 Member
    There are loads of scare stories that it causes cancer (what doesn't these days!)

    According to a thread earlier, ice water gives you cancer as well. :laugh:
  • curlyelm
    curlyelm Posts: 73
    I gave up Diet Coke (very reluctantly and it was VERY tough) in January this year. I was drinking about 1litre a day and I loved the stuff! HOWEVER, it destroyed my ability to judge hunger as it filled me up so I then just ate what I fancied, as opposed to eating proper meals at proper times and my body being ready for the meal.

    Although I haven't seen a huge change in my weight, I am working on this and feel more in control of my hunger and when to eat, and when I am hungry. I feel healthier in myself too.

    The only trouble I find is if I go out for a meal/drink - I am then left with no option (other than water) to have a drink with calories in it, which I do find frustrating.
  • Mad_Dog_Muscle
    Mad_Dog_Muscle Posts: 1,251 Member
    I heard oxygen causes cancer. Everyone stop breathing. NAO. DO IT.

    :laugh:
    LOL
  • sallybetzingleboo
    sallybetzingleboo Posts: 17
    I really love diet coke, I always thought it was the caffeine that gave me the kick and made me feel addicted but I'm beginning to think it is the aspartame.

    If I drink a lot of diet coke (ashamed to say 2litres a day) I feel really depressed and a bit crazy lady. I had always assumed it was because I wasn't falling in to the deepest part of my sleep because of the caffeine or something like that. But I found this article which rings some bells with me, it seems to pop up in lots of other forums too linked with depression.

    http://www.mcmanweb.com/diet_coke.html mcmanweb .com/diet_coke

    I was going to try and stop taking it altogether and see if it is affecting my moods, but its in so much stuff it would be a massive mission. I am giving up the diet coke though :(
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