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amandapleighse92 wrote: »they are terrible for you! they make you hungry and make you crave sugar. Plus they have been linked to cancer. WATER is the best. To me it's easiest to skip the diet soda and tackle the root of the problem by not drinking soda. Or at least start cutting back and in time you can stop completely. They are terrible for you an to me every calorie I hold very dear. If I can cut it out I do so. Lots of girls drink diet cokes though and hell they are skinny, Chemicals beats calories they say!
That's a "No." to every single sentence you just wrote.25 -
amandapleighse92 wrote: »they are terrible for you! they make you hungry and make you crave sugar. Plus they have been linked to cancer. WATER is the best. To me it's easiest to skip the diet soda and tackle the root of the problem by not drinking soda. Or at least start cutting back and in time you can stop completely. They are terrible for you an to me every calorie I hold very dear. If I can cut it out I do so. Lots of girls drink diet cokes though and hell they are skinny, Chemicals beats calories they say!
No.
To all of that. Nothing but woo and fearmongering.
But here has to be at least one post like this in every diet soda thread, so at least we've got that over with.18 -
amandapleighse92 wrote: »they are terrible for you! they make you hungry and make you crave sugar. Plus they have been linked to cancer. WATER is the best. To me it's easiest to skip the diet soda and tackle the root of the problem by not drinking soda. Or at least start cutting back and in time you can stop completely. They are terrible for you an to me every calorie I hold very dear. If I can cut it out I do so. Lots of girls drink diet cokes though and hell they are skinny, Chemicals beats calories they say!
Can you provide proof about your claims that diet sodas make you hungry/crave sugar and the cancer statement?
Also, water is a chemical. One that makes up 90% of diet soda.11 -
No.amandapleighse92 wrote: »they are terrible for you! they make you hungry and make you crave sugar. Plus they have been linked to cancer. WATER is the best. To me it's easiest to skip the diet soda and tackle the root of the problem by not drinking soda. Or at least start cutting back and in time you can stop completely. They are terrible for you an to me every calorie I hold very dear. If I can cut it out I do so. Lots of girls drink diet cokes though and hell they are skinny, Chemicals beats calories they say!
No.
No.
Absolutely not. Do you have scientific sources to back this up?
Diet sodas have no calories.
*sigh*
Strong First Post.amandapleighse92 wrote: »they are terrible for you! they make you hungry and make you crave sugar. Plus they have been linked to cancer. WATER is the best. To me it's easiest to skip the diet soda and tackle the root of the problem by not drinking soda. Or at least start cutting back and in time you can stop completely. They are terrible for you an to me every calorie I hold very dear. If I can cut it out I do so. Lots of girls drink diet cokes though and hell they are skinny, Chemicals beats calories they say!
Can you provide proof about your claims that diet sodas make you hungry/crave sugar and the cancer statement?
Also, water is a chemical. One that makes up 90% of diet soda.
This.7 -
amandapleighse92 wrote: »they are terrible for you! they make you hungry and make you crave sugar. Plus they have been linked to cancer. WATER is the best. To me it's easiest to skip the diet soda and tackle the root of the problem by not drinking soda. Or at least start cutting back and in time you can stop completely. They are terrible for you an to me every calorie I hold very dear. If I can cut it out I do so. Lots of girls drink diet cokes though and hell they are skinny, Chemicals beats calories they say!
The only way you could be more wrong is if you added "The earth is flat" to the end of your post.
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I avoid diet sodas due to the fact that the artificial sweeteners do play with the body's blood sugar - the brain too. It can't decifer whether it's real sugar or not. Also, more importantly they are toxic.
Regular soda is much more due to the high fructose corn syrup and or beer sugar (glysophate is in high concentrations in these).
When I do have a craving I reach for a more natural alternative. A pop called Zevia @ whole foods and co-ops.
But, sodastream is good too.
This is just what works for me. Unfortunately and probably fortunately - my body is really sensitive.
I hope it helps.4 -
how specific. Its weird though, do you not agree that water is the best way to go? There is nothing good for you in diet coke or soda in general. Given it won't make you fat, but it is not healthy. It's best to KICK THE HABIT and learn to drink water instead. I researched this on my own and came to my own opinion, I encourage anyone to do the same! It's a lifestyle, so everyone's will be different. Things you choose as important will be different than mine. Soda was my first thing to go, coffee however is most important!4
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I avoid diet sodas due to the fact that the artificial sweeteners do play with the body's blood sugar - the brain too. It can't decifer whether it's real sugar or not. Also, more importantly they are toxic.
Regular soda is much more due to the high fructose corn syrup and or beer sugar (glysophate is in high concentrations in these).
When I do have a craving I reach for a more natural alternative. A pop called Zevia @ whole foods and co-ops.
But, sodastream is good too.
This is just what works for me. Unfortunately and probably fortunately - my body is really sensitive.
I hope it helps.
I think you may need to refer to a dictionary and review the definition of toxic.
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amandapleighse92 wrote: »how specific. Its weird though, do you not agree that water is the best way to go? There is nothing good for you in diet coke or soda in general. Given it won't make you fat, but it is not healthy. It's best to KICK THE HABIT and learn to drink water instead. I researched this on my own and came to my own opinion, I encourage anyone to do the same! It's a lifestyle, so everyone's will be different. Things you choose as important will be different than mine. Soda was my first thing to go, coffee however is most important!
I drink water throughout the day and then have a diet soda with dinner. I'm healthier than I've ever been. And I don't drink coffee.5 -
amandapleighse92 wrote: »how specific. Its weird though, do you not agree that water is the best way to go? There is nothing good for you in diet coke or soda in general. Given it won't make you fat, but it is not healthy. It's best to KICK THE HABIT and learn to drink water instead. I researched this on my own and came to my own opinion, I encourage anyone to do the same! It's a lifestyle, so everyone's will be different. Things you choose as important will be different than mine. Soda was my first thing to go, coffee however is most important!
It's like 95% water which is the "BEST" by your standards..so yea, it has some health benefits...it's called hydration.12 -
amandapleighse92 wrote: »how specific. Its weird though, do you not agree that water is the best way to go? There is nothing good for you in diet coke or soda in general. Given it won't make you fat, but it is not healthy. It's best to KICK THE HABIT and learn to drink water instead. I researched this on my own and came to my own opinion, I encourage anyone to do the same! It's a lifestyle, so everyone's will be different. Things you choose as important will be different than mine. Soda was my first thing to go, coffee however is most important!
Do you even know what aspartame is?
Did you know that diet drinks are actually 99% water?
Can you post your diet soda research?
And, do you avoid DHMO?
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amandapleighse92 wrote: »how specific. Its weird though, do you not agree that water is the best way to go? There is nothing good for you in diet coke or soda in general. Given it won't make you fat, but it is not healthy. It's best to KICK THE HABIT and learn to drink water instead.,,
Psssst....guess what makes up about 99% of diet soda?
Hint: Water.8 -
amandapleighse92 wrote: »how specific. Its weird though, do you not agree that water is the best way to go? There is nothing good for you in diet coke or soda in general. Given it won't make you fat, but it is not healthy. It's best to KICK THE HABIT and learn to drink water instead.,,
Psssst....guess what makes up about 99% of diet soda?
Hint: Water.
Get. OUT!!!!!!!!!1111111118 -
i'm sure tons of people have been able to lose weight and keep drinking diet soda but it's soooooo bad for youuuuuuu. the chemicals in it seriously mess with your head and there have been a ton of studies to prove this. like, not just one fringe study with iffy results, but truly countless studies.
i used to be a hopeless diet coke addict and then i finally switched to seltzer. i realized that when i craved diet coke, the fizziness of seltzer totally did the trick. there are also tons of diet sodas that are sweetened with natural zero-calorie sweeteners like stevia instead of aspartame. or you can drink kombucha! it does have sugar but it's processed by yeast and bacteria so it doesn't cause the same insulin spike.1 -
gwenster89 wrote: »i'm sure tons of people have been able to lose weight and keep drinking diet soda but it's soooooo bad for youuuuuuu. the chemicals in it seriously mess with your head and there have been a ton of studies to prove this. like, not just one fringe study with iffy results, but truly countless studies.
i used to be a hopeless diet coke addict and then i finally switched to seltzer. i realized that when i craved diet coke, the fizziness of seltzer totally did the trick. there are also tons of diet sodas that are sweetened with natural zero-calorie sweeteners like stevia instead of aspartame. or you can drink kombucha! it does have sugar but it's processed by yeast and bacteria so it doesn't cause the same insulin spike.
There has literally been no studies that shows it's bad for you. 0. Could you point me to one?14 -
gwenster89 wrote: »i'm sure tons of people have been able to lose weight and keep drinking diet soda but it's soooooo bad for youuuuuuu. the chemicals in it seriously mess with your head and there have been a ton of studies to prove this. like, not just one fringe study with iffy results, but truly countless studies.
i used to be a hopeless diet coke addict and then i finally switched to seltzer. i realized that when i craved diet coke, the fizziness of seltzer totally did the trick. there are also tons of diet sodas that are sweetened with natural zero-calorie sweeteners like stevia instead of aspartame. or you can drink kombucha! it does have sugar but it's processed by yeast and bacteria so it doesn't cause the same insulin spike.
Feel free to post some of those totally countless studies which show it's soooooooo bad for youuuuuuu.11 -
Do diet cokes hinder weight loss in any way other than make you hungrier ? They don't make me more hungry, even though there has been studies that say they do. I just want to know what do regular people who have lost weight think about them.Thanks !
No. They don't even make me hungrier. If I am feeling hungry, but know I am not really hungry, a Coke Zero will usually fill me up and satisfy me. I would love to see anything other than correlation studies that show that they do put on weight as my experience is they don't at all.7 -
Wow all the muscle bound guys HATE ME! lol I read like two books a few years ago. ( This wasn't the MAIN idea of them) seriously though are you saying water is not the best choice? why not just drink water? There are lots of opinions though. No need to get nasty, I'm only saying things I believe. That is the point of this right? To share ideas and opinions. Never imagined diet soda would become such defensive topic! And maybe the whole "chemicals beats calories" point didn't make sense to some, and it is not the healthiest idea!But it is a saying. Meaning if you are hungry, it will make you feel full for a short while. This is not specifically talking about diet coke, It is a very general saying . Do something to make the hunger pains go away for a bit.0
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Yes, there are opinions, but there are facts as well. Your opinions just happen to be scientifically and factually WRONG.14
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