Diet Fizzy Drinks

No, there is no truth to artificial sweetners breaking down as sugar and sticking to your belly. The only thing you need in order to lose weight is to consume fewer calories than you burn each day.

I lost more than 70 pounds and have maintained the loss for nearly 2 years... and I drink diet soda on a semi-regular basis.

ive had at least one diet soda a day every day and still lost 70+ pounds.

I gave up diet soft drinks and my gut tells me that it helped, but the science doesn't back it up. I've gone through a lot of the published literature and I don't think there's any scientific basis for giving them up. The only thing, as TavistockToad mentioned, is that they may increase your appetite for other sweet foods, but even that evidence is very weak.

That said, I still don't drink them. Even when I treat myself to a soft drink it's the sugar sweetened kind.

I gave up diet soda because it made me cranky. If they didn't make me cranky, I'd still be drinking them.

yummy30 wrote: »

So i drink alot of diet coke & diet 7up. I recently read that even though these drinks have little or no calories they can actually make you put on weight around the tummy as the artificial sweetners break down as sugars and stick to your belly.

Im gonna go a month without having any fizzy drinks at all but was just wondering is there any truth in this? Also has anyone given up diet fizzy drinks and noticed an improvement in their weight loss?

Zero truth to the thought that artificial sweeteners cause people to put on weight around the mid section.

Carbonated beverages in general leave me feeling bloated if I drink them too often. I haven't paid close enough attention to figure out what "too often" is, and it's simpler to limit them.

When I do have a soda, it's a diet one and hasn't hindered my weight loss a bit. If I'm going to drink calories, it's usually in the form of a protein shake/smoothie or a glass of milk.

~Lyssa

I'm a 25 year+ on going experiment for diet soda. Daily with usually 2.

A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

desert_mom wrote: »

I just read a study that aspartame decimates your natural gut bacteria and skews you toward the gut of a fat person, meaning the bacteria extract the very most energy from your food--more energy than you'd like, if you're trying to lose weight. Here it is: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artificial-sweeteners-may-change-our-gut-bacteria-in-dangerous-ways/

Points of order:

You read an article, not a study.

Having only read this article, The substantive research was done on mice.

Then they threw this info in there:

"These patterns do not prove that the sweeteners caused the problems. Indeed, it is quite possible that overweight people are simply more likely than others to consume artificial sweeteners. But Segal's team went further, testing the association directly in a small group of lean and healthy human volunteers who normally eschewed artificial sweeteners."

That small study was done for only five days on only seven subjects...

"After consuming the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's maximum dose of saccharin over a period of five days, four of the seven subjects showed a reduced glucose response in addition to an abrupt change in their gut microbes. The three volunteers whose glucose tolerance did not dip showed no change in their gut microbes."

Hardly damning and does not show anything. A larger study might come form that extremely short, extremely small study but that's all that should.

Yum. Think I'll go get one actually.