Can you still drink DIET pepsi or coke while on a diet?
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AvidAdrienne wrote: »If you ask me: YES you can drink it, but personally it makes me crave sugar more and is addictive. I have a Coke Zero maybe every 2 weeks, and when I drink it I feel kind of yucky/unhealthy for a few hours, so I tell myself it's bad for me!
Very addictive. I was in diet soda anonymous up until recently. People really don't know the struggle until they've sucked asparagus for their next fix. How long you been clean?
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AvidAdrienne wrote: »If you ask me: YES you can drink it, but personally it makes me crave sugar more and is addictive. I have a Coke Zero maybe every 2 weeks, and when I drink it I feel kind of yucky/unhealthy for a few hours, so I tell myself it's bad for me!
Very addictive. I was in diet soda anonymous up until recently. People really don't know the struggle until they've sucked asparagus for their next fix. How long you been clean?
It's addictive AF for me, could be my personality.
Also, it's aspartame, not asparagus. Asparagus is a green stalky vegetable.
It's cool joking about drug addiction though, sounds like you've never been through that before... *pats you on the back*0 -
AvidAdrienne wrote: »AvidAdrienne wrote: »If you ask me: YES you can drink it, but personally it makes me crave sugar more and is addictive. I have a Coke Zero maybe every 2 weeks, and when I drink it I feel kind of yucky/unhealthy for a few hours, so I tell myself it's bad for me!
Very addictive. I was in diet soda anonymous up until recently. People really don't know the struggle until they've sucked asparagus for their next fix. How long you been clean?
It's addictive AF for me, could be my personality.
Also, it's aspartame, not asparagus. Asparagus is a green stalky vegetable.
It's cool joking about drug addiction though, sounds like you've never been through that before... *pats you on the back*
One could say it's equally uncool to suggest your desire to drink yummy Coke Zero is similar to an actual drug addiction. Which I suspect was her point in the first place.16 -
AvidAdrienne wrote: »AvidAdrienne wrote: »If you ask me: YES you can drink it, but personally it makes me crave sugar more and is addictive. I have a Coke Zero maybe every 2 weeks, and when I drink it I feel kind of yucky/unhealthy for a few hours, so I tell myself it's bad for me!
Very addictive. I was in diet soda anonymous up until recently. People really don't know the struggle until they've sucked asparagus for their next fix. How long you been clean?
It's addictive AF for me, could be my personality.
Also, it's aspartame, not asparagus. Asparagus is a green stalky vegetable.
It's cool joking about drug addiction though, sounds like you've never been through that before... *pats you on the back*
One could say it's equally uncool to suggest your desire to drink yummy Coke Zero is similar to an actual drug addiction. Which I suspect was her point in the first place.
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Wynterbourne wrote: »AvidAdrienne wrote: »AvidAdrienne wrote: »If you ask me: YES you can drink it, but personally it makes me crave sugar more and is addictive. I have a Coke Zero maybe every 2 weeks, and when I drink it I feel kind of yucky/unhealthy for a few hours, so I tell myself it's bad for me!
Very addictive. I was in diet soda anonymous up until recently. People really don't know the struggle until they've sucked asparagus for their next fix. How long you been clean?
It's addictive AF for me, could be my personality.
Also, it's aspartame, not asparagus. Asparagus is a green stalky vegetable.
It's cool joking about drug addiction though, sounds like you've never been through that before... *pats you on the back*
One could say it's equally uncool to suggest your desire to drink yummy Coke Zero is similar to an actual drug addiction. Which I suspect was her point in the first place.
Seconded
Threesies.6 -
PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »Wynterbourne wrote: »AvidAdrienne wrote: »AvidAdrienne wrote: »If you ask me: YES you can drink it, but personally it makes me crave sugar more and is addictive. I have a Coke Zero maybe every 2 weeks, and when I drink it I feel kind of yucky/unhealthy for a few hours, so I tell myself it's bad for me!
Very addictive. I was in diet soda anonymous up until recently. People really don't know the struggle until they've sucked asparagus for their next fix. How long you been clean?
It's addictive AF for me, could be my personality.
Also, it's aspartame, not asparagus. Asparagus is a green stalky vegetable.
It's cool joking about drug addiction though, sounds like you've never been through that before... *pats you on the back*
One could say it's equally uncool to suggest your desire to drink yummy Coke Zero is similar to an actual drug addiction. Which I suspect was her point in the first place.
Seconded
Threesies.
Four score and 7 years ago.
Wait... What game are we playing?
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misshavenross wrote: »I love to drink coke or pepsi, is it okay to drink it still while dieting? It has 0 calories so it won't add anything to my calorie deficit.
@misshavenross while you are free to drink what you wish keep in mind it is working the liver and kidneys extra vs just drinking water often. Giving up any thing that has a chemical/emotional hold on us is very hard to do over the long haul.
Best of success and welcome to MFP forums.1 -
AvidAdrienne wrote: »AvidAdrienne wrote: »If you ask me: YES you can drink it, but personally it makes me crave sugar more and is addictive. I have a Coke Zero maybe every 2 weeks, and when I drink it I feel kind of yucky/unhealthy for a few hours, so I tell myself it's bad for me!
Very addictive. I was in diet soda anonymous up until recently. People really don't know the struggle until they've sucked asparagus for their next fix. How long you been clean?
It's addictive AF for me, could be my personality.
Also, it's aspartame, not asparagus. Asparagus is a green stalky vegetable.
It's cool joking about drug addiction though, sounds like you've never been through that before... *pats you on the back*
One could say it's equally uncool to suggest your desire to drink yummy Coke Zero is similar to an actual drug addiction. Which I suspect was her point in the first place.
Gotcha, that makes sense. I overreacted.
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AvidAdrienne wrote: »AvidAdrienne wrote: »AvidAdrienne wrote: »If you ask me: YES you can drink it, but personally it makes me crave sugar more and is addictive. I have a Coke Zero maybe every 2 weeks, and when I drink it I feel kind of yucky/unhealthy for a few hours, so I tell myself it's bad for me!
Very addictive. I was in diet soda anonymous up until recently. People really don't know the struggle until they've sucked asparagus for their next fix. How long you been clean?
It's addictive AF for me, could be my personality.
Also, it's aspartame, not asparagus. Asparagus is a green stalky vegetable.
It's cool joking about drug addiction though, sounds like you've never been through that before... *pats you on the back*
One could say it's equally uncool to suggest your desire to drink yummy Coke Zero is similar to an actual drug addiction. Which I suspect was her point in the first place.
Gotcha, that makes sense. I overreacted.
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GaleHawkins wrote: »misshavenross wrote: »I love to drink coke or pepsi, is it okay to drink it still while dieting? It has 0 calories so it won't add anything to my calorie deficit.
@misshavenross while you are free to drink what you wish keep in mind it is working the liver and kidneys extra vs just drinking water often. Giving up any thing that has a chemical/emotional hold on us is very hard to do over the long haul.
Best of success and welcome to MFP forums.
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So OP never came back? Boo.
ETA: Aww deactivated.2 -
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Google "artificial sweeteners and obesity." You will find all sorts of well-conducted and documented studies tying AS to obesity and diabetes. Not exactly the outcome you are after.1
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Google "artificial sweeteners and obesity." You will find all sorts of well-conducted and documented studies tying AS to obesity and diabetes. Not exactly the outcome you are after.
So why does the American Diabetes Association recommend artificial sweeteners?
Artificial sweeteners being related to obesity is correlation, not causation. If you want to make waves in the media, you see obese people drinking diet soda and yell - artificial sweeteners make you fat! If you are using logic, you see that obese people became obese by eating too much and are drinking diet soda now to save calories.
There are many many people here who drank diet soda while losing and now while maintaining. As far as I'm aware, there is a theory that artificial sweeteners can increase appetite in some people, though I haven't experienced that. And now there is some theory that they may affect the gut biome, but that research is preliminary, and again must only affect certain people if it's true, cause I see just as many skinny people drinking diet soda as obese people :drinker:6 -
Google "artificial sweeteners and obesity." You will find all sorts of well-conducted and documented studies tying AS to obesity and diabetes. Not exactly the outcome you are after.
1) It helps greatly if you understand the difference between correlation and causation. There are plenty of obese people and diabetics who exercise also. Should we then proclaim exercise as the cause of obesity and diabetes?
2) Here's a meta-analysis of 15 RCTs (those are random controlled trials - "studies", in case you didn't know that) and 9 prospective cohort studies, which showed no association between the use of artificial sweeteners and weight gain - and in fact concluded that they could be a useful dietary tool in weight loss plans: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24944060/
3) Google is a poor tool if you don't know how to properly vet your sources. There's a lot of crackpots and garbage on the web/internet. I can Google and find sources which "prove" that the Earth is flat and the moon landing never happened.
4) As an n=1, I drink diet soda pretty much daily. I've lost 65 pounds while doing so, am at a healthy weight/BMI/bodyfat percentage, and do not have diabetes. That *is* the outcome I was after. And I'm far from the only person on MFP who has had enormous success losing weight while drinking diet sodas.10 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »So OP never came back? Boo.
ETA: Aww deactivated.
That stinks. I mean you could have jut ignored the post that called you out in the first place, but you swung back, so commit. Say you are actually the model. Pull out a stat about doppelgangers. Suggest your account was hacked. Something
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Google "artificial sweeteners and obesity." You will find all sorts of well-conducted and documented studies tying AS to obesity and diabetes. Not exactly the outcome you are after.
If you Google you will find many studies regarding artificial sweeteners and obesity. When you read the actual studies, you will not that not one of them actually finds a definitive link.5 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »Google "artificial sweeteners and obesity." You will find all sorts of well-conducted and documented studies tying AS to obesity and diabetes. Not exactly the outcome you are after.
If you Google you will find many studies regarding artificial sweeteners and obesity. When you read the actual studies, you will not that not one of them actually finds a definitive link.
If you Google, you'll come up with links to Authority Nutrition (junk science site), Mercola (crackpot pseudoscientist), Dr. Axe (another tinfoil hat hack), etc. - all of which will give you a headache from rolling your eyes so much, but none of which have anything to do with the actual science regarding artificial sweeteners.
Examine.com, which is an unbiased, evidence-based site, does a good job of laying out the science here and also explaining correlation vs. causation. They also link to relevant studies (as they always do): https://examine.com/nutrition/is-diet-soda-bad-for-you/7 -
I don't drink them at all. And i don't miss them. Everybody here is for the long haul i guess and talks about lifestyle change to achieve weightloss and then maintain it. But apparently ppl are still eating/drinking bad as long as its in calorie goal. While it won't affect weightloss it is proven that soda and some artificial sweeteners are not good for your health. Plus it does cause cravings for some people. Junk food and soda are, in my opinion, first things to ditch if you are truly commited to a change.1
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Harbin2017 wrote: »I don't drink them at all. And i don't miss them. Everybody here is for the long haul i guess and talks about lifestyle change to achieve weightloss and then maintain it. But apparently ppl are still eating/drinking bad as long as its in calorie goal. While it won't affect weightloss it is proven that soda and some artificial sweeteners are not good for your health. Plus it does cause cravings for some people. Junk food and soda are, in my opinion, first things to ditch if you are truly commited to a change.
But... it's not.8
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