If you stop drinking Diet soda will you lose more weight?
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Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »I have seen studies ( it's been a long time, so can't link) that suggest that the aspertame and artificial sweeteners they put in diet sodas trigger a hunger response and lead to eating more which leads to weight gain. On there own though, no they won't as long as you are careful to not eat more
If you find that it increases cravings or appetite for you, then avoid it. Problem solved. It does not have that affect on most people, though, and honestly, simply tracking your calories can help you avoid overeating if you drink diet soda.
Yup. Like avacados for me. They make me crave the hell out of them...so I limit them and only buy them when I need them.
This is the effect that margaritas have on me.4 -
Yes! Why....because all that crud they put in it dense. In reality it probably do much if any. I just think of diet drinks as empty calories and unhealthy. I also suspect that artificial sweeteners one day will be found as a link to diabetes. I just drink plain old boring water
except there aren't really any calories?8 -
I drink diet soda like it is going out of style and I have never noticed it affecting weight gain or weight loss.
Sometimes I do get the urge to eat something along with it (habitual).3 -
Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »This is a loaded question. But, all other things being unchanged, dropping diet soft drinks will NOT make you lose any weight. However, there are those (like myself) that believe that diet drinks can be just as addictive as regular drinks, due to the chemicals that are used to replace the sugar (corn syrup) in other drinks. So, I would look at giving up soft drinks ALL TOGETHER, not just cutting out diet OR regular. I only drink coffee (black), water, and unsweetened tea. Occasionally, I will have a beer or 3 if I'm out with friends, and I don't do it often enough to warrant drinking low-calorie, or low-carb beers. I just drink the normal beers, because like I said, I only drink maybe 2-3 a month.
Yes, they both can be addictive because caffeine. Not sure how black coffee will help that though...
While caffeine can be addictive, a cup of black coffee is not even in the same ball park as soft drinks where health benefits/drawbacks are concerned.janejellyroll wrote: »This is a loaded question. But, all other things being unchanged, dropping diet soft drinks will NOT make you lose any weight. However, there are those (like myself) that believe that diet drinks can be just as addictive as regular drinks, due to the chemicals that are used to replace the sugar (corn syrup) in other drinks. So, I would look at giving up soft drinks ALL TOGETHER, not just cutting out diet OR regular. I only drink coffee (black), water, and unsweetened tea. Occasionally, I will have a beer or 3 if I'm out with friends, and I don't do it often enough to warrant drinking low-calorie, or low-carb beers. I just drink the normal beers, because like I said, I only drink maybe 2-3 a month.
Giving up soft drinks altogether due to their potentially addictive nature, but continuing to drink coffee and beer. I don't know . . .
I drink 10 oz of coffee in the morning before my workout for a little kick (it is 4:30 after all). Drinking 2-3 beers over a 30 day period hardly qualifies as being a "beer drinker."
Caffeine is the only thing in soda that is even remotely addictive though. So it's kinda of a weird statement to say I was addicted to soda, but I drink coffee. Similarly, it would be funny if someone said I'm not an alcoholic, I only drink beer...
If you think caffeine is the ONLY addictive thing in soft drinks, you are very misinformed.
Please, inform us. Do you have research to back up your claims?
Yes. Google "effects of sugar or hfcs" and you will have all the evidence/research you need to keep you busy for days.
One small problem there (besides the silly fearmongering about sugar and HFCS) - diet sodas contain neither sugar nor HFCS. And this thread is about diet soda.16 -
Yes! Why....because all that crud they put in it dense. In reality it probably do much if any. I just think of diet drinks as empty calories and unhealthy. I also suspect that artificial sweeteners one day will be found as a link to diabetes. I just drink plain old boring water
How can zero calories be "empty calories". And exactly what "crud" do they put in it?5 -
Yes! Why....because all that crud they put in it dense. In reality it probably do much if any. I just think of diet drinks as empty calories and unhealthy. I also suspect that artificial sweeteners one day will be found as a link to diabetes. I just drink plain old boring water
...what?
From what I can gather from your post, you under the incorrect assumption that diet drinks have calories. They do not.
It is pretty well established that artificial sweeteners do not cause diabetes. As a matter of fact, they are recommended by the ADA to diabetics as substitutes for sugary drinks.
Telling the OP "yes" to the original question is 100% incorrect.7 -
Yes! Why....because all that crud they put in it dense. In reality it probably do much if any. I just think of diet drinks as empty calories and unhealthy. I also suspect that artificial sweeteners one day will be found as a link to diabetes. I just drink plain old boring water
Diet soda has ZERO calories, therefore it has NO empty calories.
Secondly-the American Diabetes Association recommends diet soda, because it does not affect diabetics glucose numbers. I'm a former pre-diabetic and I drink diet soda every day. My glucose numbers are consistently under 100 now ie no longer a pre-diabetic/glucose numbers are now in the normal range.
http://www.diabetes.org/food-and-fitness/food/what-can-i-eat/making-healthy-food-choices/what-can-i-drink.html12 -
Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »This is a loaded question. But, all other things being unchanged, dropping diet soft drinks will NOT make you lose any weight. However, there are those (like myself) that believe that diet drinks can be just as addictive as regular drinks, due to the chemicals that are used to replace the sugar (corn syrup) in other drinks. So, I would look at giving up soft drinks ALL TOGETHER, not just cutting out diet OR regular. I only drink coffee (black), water, and unsweetened tea. Occasionally, I will have a beer or 3 if I'm out with friends, and I don't do it often enough to warrant drinking low-calorie, or low-carb beers. I just drink the normal beers, because like I said, I only drink maybe 2-3 a month.
Yes, they both can be addictive because caffeine. Not sure how black coffee will help that though...
While caffeine can be addictive, a cup of black coffee is not even in the same ball park as soft drinks where health benefits/drawbacks are concerned.janejellyroll wrote: »This is a loaded question. But, all other things being unchanged, dropping diet soft drinks will NOT make you lose any weight. However, there are those (like myself) that believe that diet drinks can be just as addictive as regular drinks, due to the chemicals that are used to replace the sugar (corn syrup) in other drinks. So, I would look at giving up soft drinks ALL TOGETHER, not just cutting out diet OR regular. I only drink coffee (black), water, and unsweetened tea. Occasionally, I will have a beer or 3 if I'm out with friends, and I don't do it often enough to warrant drinking low-calorie, or low-carb beers. I just drink the normal beers, because like I said, I only drink maybe 2-3 a month.
Giving up soft drinks altogether due to their potentially addictive nature, but continuing to drink coffee and beer. I don't know . . .
I drink 10 oz of coffee in the morning before my workout for a little kick (it is 4:30 after all). Drinking 2-3 beers over a 30 day period hardly qualifies as being a "beer drinker."
Caffeine is the only thing in soda that is even remotely addictive though. So it's kinda of a weird statement to say I was addicted to soda, but I drink coffee. Similarly, it would be funny if someone said I'm not an alcoholic, I only drink beer...
If you think caffeine is the ONLY addictive thing in soft drinks, you are very misinformed.
Please, inform us. Do you have research to back up your claims?
Yes. Google "effects of sugar or hfcs" and you will have all the evidence/research you need to keep you busy for days.
Last time I checked, diet soda contained neither of those. And google gives you a bunch of whackjobs as well as good sources so telling someone to google it is like telling someone to ask random people on the street. Sure there might be a phd in nutrition somewhere in the crowd, but most just repeat what they heard somewhere.9 -
I have 1 or 2 diet sodas a day at work -- it's a bad routine I can't seem to get myself out of. It's a nice break and I don't drink coffee. Personally, drinking one seems kind of filling to me, so I don't feel like it makes me eager to grab a snack.
I dropped 20 pounds in the last year and a half while doing this (185lbs to 165lbs) at 40 years old, so it doesn't seem to have caused a problem for me as far as weight loss goes, although I'm sure it's not doing my overall health any favors.
There have been some articles linking diet soda consumption to weight gain, but it mostly seems like correlation than causation to me. (What sort of people drink diet soda vs. water? When do they start drinking it? Are they just switching from Coke to Diet Coke but still getting the Double Whopper value meal?)
Anyway, it's probably better for your health to switch from diet soda to water, but it certainly didn't pose any weight loss problems for me..... as long as it doesn't coincide with other destructive caloric behavior (getting a diet soda AND a Snickers out of the vending machine) for you, I doubt it will either.3 -
crzycatlady1 wrote: »Yes! Why....because all that crud they put in it dense. In reality it probably do much if any. I just think of diet drinks as empty calories and unhealthy. I also suspect that artificial sweeteners one day will be found as a link to diabetes. I just drink plain old boring water
Diet soda has ZERO calories, therefore it has NO empty calories.
Secondly-the American Diabetes Association recommends diet soda, because it does not affect diabetics glucose numbers. I'm a former pre-diabetic and I drink diet soda every day. My glucose numbers are consistently under 100 now ie no longer a pre-diabetic/glucose numbers are now in the normal range.
http://www.diabetes.org/food-and-fitness/food/what-can-i-eat/making-healthy-food-choices/what-can-i-drink.html
But if it has 0 calories it could be empty calories since there are none. I mean you could look at the calorie and it would be empty. Right?
(Which is using as much twisted logic as those people who claim diet sodas make you gain weight.)3 -
crzycatlady1 wrote: »Yes! Why....because all that crud they put in it dense. In reality it probably do much if any. I just think of diet drinks as empty calories and unhealthy. I also suspect that artificial sweeteners one day will be found as a link to diabetes. I just drink plain old boring water
Diet soda has ZERO calories, therefore it has NO empty calories.
Secondly-the American Diabetes Association recommends diet soda, because it does not affect diabetics glucose numbers. I'm a former pre-diabetic and I drink diet soda every day. My glucose numbers are consistently under 100 now ie no longer a pre-diabetic/glucose numbers are now in the normal range.
http://www.diabetes.org/food-and-fitness/food/what-can-i-eat/making-healthy-food-choices/what-can-i-drink.html
But if it has 0 calories it could be empty calories since there are none. I mean you could look at the calorie and it would be empty. Right?
(Which is using as much twisted logic as those people who claim diet sodas make you gain weight.)
Well, we do write "empty set" as:
Certainly looks like a variation of 0 to me.4 -
Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »This is a loaded question. But, all other things being unchanged, dropping diet soft drinks will NOT make you lose any weight. However, there are those (like myself) that believe that diet drinks can be just as addictive as regular drinks, due to the chemicals that are used to replace the sugar (corn syrup) in other drinks. So, I would look at giving up soft drinks ALL TOGETHER, not just cutting out diet OR regular. I only drink coffee (black), water, and unsweetened tea. Occasionally, I will have a beer or 3 if I'm out with friends, and I don't do it often enough to warrant drinking low-calorie, or low-carb beers. I just drink the normal beers, because like I said, I only drink maybe 2-3 a month.
Yes, they both can be addictive because caffeine. Not sure how black coffee will help that though...
While caffeine can be addictive, a cup of black coffee is not even in the same ball park as soft drinks where health benefits/drawbacks are concerned.janejellyroll wrote: »This is a loaded question. But, all other things being unchanged, dropping diet soft drinks will NOT make you lose any weight. However, there are those (like myself) that believe that diet drinks can be just as addictive as regular drinks, due to the chemicals that are used to replace the sugar (corn syrup) in other drinks. So, I would look at giving up soft drinks ALL TOGETHER, not just cutting out diet OR regular. I only drink coffee (black), water, and unsweetened tea. Occasionally, I will have a beer or 3 if I'm out with friends, and I don't do it often enough to warrant drinking low-calorie, or low-carb beers. I just drink the normal beers, because like I said, I only drink maybe 2-3 a month.
Giving up soft drinks altogether due to their potentially addictive nature, but continuing to drink coffee and beer. I don't know . . .
I drink 10 oz of coffee in the morning before my workout for a little kick (it is 4:30 after all). Drinking 2-3 beers over a 30 day period hardly qualifies as being a "beer drinker."
Caffeine is the only thing in soda that is even remotely addictive though. So it's kinda of a weird statement to say I was addicted to soda, but I drink coffee. Similarly, it would be funny if someone said I'm not an alcoholic, I only drink beer...
If you think caffeine is the ONLY addictive thing in soft drinks, you are very misinformed.
Please, inform us. Do you have research to back up your claims?
Yes. Google "effects of sugar or hfcs" and you will have all the evidence/research you need to keep you busy for days.
You can also Google "dangers of microwave ovens" and have tons of literature to support this (extremely silly) claim. You have to do better than that.
The dangers of putting a can of diet soda in the microwave is very real.12 -
Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »This is a loaded question. But, all other things being unchanged, dropping diet soft drinks will NOT make you lose any weight. However, there are those (like myself) that believe that diet drinks can be just as addictive as regular drinks, due to the chemicals that are used to replace the sugar (corn syrup) in other drinks. So, I would look at giving up soft drinks ALL TOGETHER, not just cutting out diet OR regular. I only drink coffee (black), water, and unsweetened tea. Occasionally, I will have a beer or 3 if I'm out with friends, and I don't do it often enough to warrant drinking low-calorie, or low-carb beers. I just drink the normal beers, because like I said, I only drink maybe 2-3 a month.
Yes, they both can be addictive because caffeine. Not sure how black coffee will help that though...
While caffeine can be addictive, a cup of black coffee is not even in the same ball park as soft drinks where health benefits/drawbacks are concerned.janejellyroll wrote: »This is a loaded question. But, all other things being unchanged, dropping diet soft drinks will NOT make you lose any weight. However, there are those (like myself) that believe that diet drinks can be just as addictive as regular drinks, due to the chemicals that are used to replace the sugar (corn syrup) in other drinks. So, I would look at giving up soft drinks ALL TOGETHER, not just cutting out diet OR regular. I only drink coffee (black), water, and unsweetened tea. Occasionally, I will have a beer or 3 if I'm out with friends, and I don't do it often enough to warrant drinking low-calorie, or low-carb beers. I just drink the normal beers, because like I said, I only drink maybe 2-3 a month.
Giving up soft drinks altogether due to their potentially addictive nature, but continuing to drink coffee and beer. I don't know . . .
I drink 10 oz of coffee in the morning before my workout for a little kick (it is 4:30 after all). Drinking 2-3 beers over a 30 day period hardly qualifies as being a "beer drinker."
Caffeine is the only thing in soda that is even remotely addictive though. So it's kinda of a weird statement to say I was addicted to soda, but I drink coffee. Similarly, it would be funny if someone said I'm not an alcoholic, I only drink beer...
If you think caffeine is the ONLY addictive thing in soft drinks, you are very misinformed.
Please, inform us. Do you have research to back up your claims?
Yes. Google "effects of sugar or hfcs" and you will have all the evidence/research you need to keep you busy for days.
You can also Google "dangers of microwave ovens" and have tons of literature to support this (extremely silly) claim. You have to do better than that.
The dangers of putting a can of diet soda in the microwave is very real.
Can confirm
https://youtu.be/eFsZ-GWB8Gk 5 -
This is a loaded question. But, all other things being unchanged, dropping diet soft drinks will NOT make you lose any weight. However, there are those (like myself) that believe that diet drinks can be just as addictive as regular drinks, due to the chemicals that are used to replace the sugar (corn syrup) in other drinks.
No. However, it IS addictive (or habit-forming or whatever), because it contains caffeine, which is. Hardly the end of the world, though, and for health losing weight is more important if OP is obese.So, I would look at giving up soft drinks ALL TOGETHER, not just cutting out diet OR regular. I only drink coffee (black), water, and unsweetened tea.
Tea and coffee (which I also drink much more of than diet soda) are also full of caffeine, so claiming that they are less addictive makes no sense. If you care about addiction all of them should be watched.
(I try to limit caffeine for this reason and because I sleep better when I do. Diet soda can actually be good for that, sometimes, as I think it has less caffeine than coffee.)5 -
janejellyroll wrote: »This is a loaded question. But, all other things being unchanged, dropping diet soft drinks will NOT make you lose any weight. However, there are those (like myself) that believe that diet drinks can be just as addictive as regular drinks, due to the chemicals that are used to replace the sugar (corn syrup) in other drinks. So, I would look at giving up soft drinks ALL TOGETHER, not just cutting out diet OR regular. I only drink coffee (black), water, and unsweetened tea. Occasionally, I will have a beer or 3 if I'm out with friends, and I don't do it often enough to warrant drinking low-calorie, or low-carb beers. I just drink the normal beers, because like I said, I only drink maybe 2-3 a month.
Giving up soft drinks altogether due to their potentially addictive nature, but continuing to drink coffee and beer. I don't know . . .
Heh, ignore my post above, I should have known it would have been well-covered much more immediately!1 -
There is some digression and name-calling in the thread so I'm going to skip to the end - please forgive me if I'm repeating something that's already been said.
Zero calorie drinks shouldn't affect weight-loss at all, however I have read some articles that seem to suggest that the sweetness of diet drinks triggers some kind of insulin response blah blah science I don't understand and so on, thereby prompting the drinker to consume more calories elsewhere.
I've not had a problem drinking occasional diet drinks. If I liked them more, I'd probably drink them more.4 -
There is some digression and name-calling in the thread so I'm going to skip to the end - please forgive me if I'm repeating something that's already been said.
Zero calorie drinks shouldn't affect weight-loss at all, however I have read some articles that seem to suggest that the sweetness of diet drinks triggers some kind of insulin response blah blah science I don't understand and so on, thereby prompting the drinker to consume more calories elsewhere.
I've not had a problem drinking occasional diet drinks. If I liked them more, I'd probably drink them more.
The whole trigger thing is BS. I'll find the link where a member here goes into it in detail.3 -
grmckenzie wrote: »There is some digression and name-calling in the thread so I'm going to skip to the end - please forgive me if I'm repeating something that's already been said.
Zero calorie drinks shouldn't affect weight-loss at all, however I have read some articles that seem to suggest that the sweetness of diet drinks triggers some kind of insulin response blah blah science I don't understand and so on, thereby prompting the drinker to consume more calories elsewhere.
I've not had a problem drinking occasional diet drinks. If I liked them more, I'd probably drink them more.
The whole trigger thing is BS. I'll find the link where a member here goes into it in detail.
Thanks.0
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