Diet soda and weight loss?
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DanielleGrubaugh2014 wrote: »Wynterbourne wrote: »DanielleGrubaugh2014 wrote: »Thank you for all the responses! I'm so happy to hear this. I know it's calorie free, but it does have quite a bit of sodium in it. I was just worried that I wouldn't see results on the scale as much because of the sodium/water retention.
I just looked at the diet soda in my fridge. It has 25mg per serving. Diet soda does not have quite a bit of sodium. That's a myth.
Wow! Well my A&W Root Beer has 110mg per can. What diet soda do you drink that only has 25mg?
Diet Dr. Pepper ... So just don't drink 10 a day
Them's fightin' words.1 -
I lost and have kept the weight off all while drinking a lot of Diet Coke.2
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DanielleGrubaugh2014 wrote: »Wynterbourne wrote: »DanielleGrubaugh2014 wrote: »Thank you for all the responses! I'm so happy to hear this. I know it's calorie free, but it does have quite a bit of sodium in it. I was just worried that I wouldn't see results on the scale as much because of the sodium/water retention.
I just looked at the diet soda in my fridge. It has 25mg per serving. Diet soda does not have quite a bit of sodium. That's a myth.
Wow! Well my A&W Root Beer has 110mg per can. What diet soda do you drink that only has 25mg?
I drink different diet sodas depending on what's on sale. Diet Shasta Cola is what's in the fridge currently.
Big K Diet Cola (Kroger's generic) also only has 25mg per serving.1 -
Wynterbourne wrote: »DanielleGrubaugh2014 wrote: »Wynterbourne wrote: »DanielleGrubaugh2014 wrote: »Thank you for all the responses! I'm so happy to hear this. I know it's calorie free, but it does have quite a bit of sodium in it. I was just worried that I wouldn't see results on the scale as much because of the sodium/water retention.
I just looked at the diet soda in my fridge. It has 25mg per serving. Diet soda does not have quite a bit of sodium. That's a myth.
Wow! Well my A&W Root Beer has 110mg per can. What diet soda do you drink that only has 25mg?
I drink different diet sodas depending on what's on sale. Diet Shasta Cola is what's in the fridge currently.
Big K Diet Cola (Kroger's generic) also only has 25mg per serving.
I have equally refined and discriminating tastes. I mostly drink Walmart/Sam's Club generic diet cola and diet "Dr. Thunder" - 35mg sodium per 12 oz. can.4 -
I have one once in a while. Maybe 48 oz a week. Drs state that it increases your appetite and suppresses your metabolism. I personally have not experienced those effects at all.10
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I have one once in a while. Maybe 48 oz a week. Drs state that it increases your appetite and suppresses your metabolism. I personally have not experienced those effects at all.
I've never, ever seen a study claiming that diet soda "suppresses your metabolism" - or anything of the sort. I've seen weak correlations made about appetite, but correlation is not the same thing as causation.6 -
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PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »
Maybe it was Dr. Oz who said it. I could easily believe that.
I could picture that kind of trash coming from Mercola too. 4 -
I have one once in a while. Maybe 48 oz a week. Drs state that it increases your appetite and suppresses your metabolism. I personally have not experienced those effects at all.
It has never made me hungry and with as much as I drink, I'm curious how I could have lost 130 lbs if it was supposed to surpress my metabolism.6 -
Bumping to kick down the Spammers.2
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I drink diet soda. I recently found the Rubicon spring water with fruit juice, a 500 ml bottle has between 12 - 15 calories depending on flavour. It's not marketed as diet, and it does taste like a diet drink.0
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I drink a fair amount of diet soda, in fact lots of drinks other than water (coffee, tea). While not ideal (water is best to prevent excess fluid retention), one danger of drinking diet soda is that it has a tendency to induce sugar cravings. The science is that the body is expecting sugar from the carbonated nature of the drink, and when that doesn't eventuate, you start to get "hangry". I tend not to experience this as I'm eating at the time of having the soft drink (usually with a moderate amount of alcohol), however if you're surviving on diet soda throughout the day then that is most definitely NOT GOOD. The sugar substitutes haven't been around long enough for proper scientific studies to be carried out on them, so if you're drinking more than one can a day who knows what you're letting yourself in for. As an alternative, I've noticed (In little old New Zealand, hi from down here!) that many drinks are now sweetened with stevia, which is a natural sweetener and plant extract. Stevia is hundreds of times sweeter than sugar, so they use far less of it and you still get the great taste. As for phenylalanine, I think the jury is still out. One further thing - your teeth would take a hammering if you're always on the diet soda (or any carbonated beverage).24
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michaelselwyn wrote: »I drink a fair amount of diet soda, in fact lots of drinks other than water (coffee, tea). While not ideal (water is best to prevent excess fluid retention), one danger of drinking diet soda is that it has a tendency to induce sugar cravings. The science is that the body is expecting sugar from the carbonated nature of the drink, and when that doesn't eventuate, you start to get "hangry". I tend not to experience this as I'm eating at the time of having the soft drink (usually with a moderate amount of alcohol), however if you're surviving on diet soda throughout the day then that is most definitely NOT GOOD. The sugar substitutes haven't been around long enough for proper scientific studies to be carried out on them, so if you're drinking more than one can a day who knows what you're letting yourself in for. As an alternative, I've noticed (In little old New Zealand, hi from down here!) that many drinks are now sweetened with stevia, which is a natural sweetener and plant extract. Stevia is hundreds of times sweeter than sugar, so they use far less of it and you still get the great taste. As for phenylalanine, I think the jury is still out. One further thing - your teeth would take a hammering if you're always on the diet soda (or any carbonated beverage).
1. Even when I drink diet soda on its own (usually at 6 AM when I get to work) I've never experienced sugar cravings.
2. In response to the bolded...yes they have. http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1308408/why-aspartame-isnt-scary10 -
I limit myself to one a day just to moderate myself since I hear it's not the greatest for you.8
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LOL. Please link to said "science". The body doesn't somehow "know" that a carbonated drink may contain sugar. And I'd love to see a peer-reviewed scientific study that referred to being "hangry".michaelselwyn wrote: »...The science is that the body is expecting sugar from the carbonated nature of the drink, and when that doesn't eventuate, you start to get "hangry"...
Not sure where you got this either, as aspartame is one of the most studied substances we consume. There have been tons of studies on its safety. I'll start you off here for some of them:michaelselwyn wrote: »...The sugar substitutes haven't been around long enough for proper scientific studies to be carried out on them, so if you're drinking more than one can a day who knows what you're letting yourself in for....
http://seriecientifica.org/sites/default/files/scl_enc_butchko.pdf (a 93-page PDF of studies pertaining to aspartame safety)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3982014/ (a comprehensive review of the research regarding safety of numerous artificial sweeteners)8 -
60+ lbs lost and weight maintained for closing in on 6 years while getting my "water" almost exclusively from diet drinks (including plenty of diet A&W) and coffee.
ETA: And apart from a vitamin D deficiency which runs in my family, my blood work for my last check up was exemplary.4
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