Any diet soda drinkers here?
weight3049
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I was a huge fan of soda/juice before starting my weight loss journey. Any avid diet soda drinkers here? I never drank a diet soda in my life but just started this week.
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I'm a diet soda drinker! I grew up on diet soda. I used to drink it more often, now I usually get a small bottle when I grocery shop or drink it when I visit my parents. If I kept it in the house it'd be all I'd drink instead of iced tea and lots of water. Favs are Diet Pepsi, Vanilla Coke Zero, and Zevia ginger ale.0
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well I wouldnt say I am an avid diet soda dinker - but I usually drink equivalent of 2 - 3 cans per week
Like you OP , I did not ever drink it until starting weight loss journey - one of the first things I did to save calories was switch from regular to diet version0 -
paperpudding wrote: »well I wouldnt say I am an avid diet soda dinker - but I usually drink equivalent of 2 - 3 cans per week
Like you OP , I did not ever drink it until starting weight loss journey - one of the first things I did to save calories was switch from regular to diet version
I'm shocked paperpudding.. you're a dinker? :laugh:
2x 300ml diet ginger ales most afternoons.. I too swapped to diet soft drink to save calories.0 -
I’ve never drunk anything but diet drinks since they reached the UK in the very early 70s (from memory) I remember Diet Tab cola being the first available - didn’t taste great but as a pre-teen who had a very skinny older sister I thought I was too fat (in hindsight I wasn’t, it was just comparison) it was a revelation calorie wise!
I don’t drink many these days but if I’m extra hungry I’ll drink a Diet Coke half an hour before I start prepping my dinner. Helps me greatly in getting the portion size right and not overcompensating for my hunger.1 -
I used to drink a lot more of it, but I've cut down since I bought a sodastream. Now I just have plain sparkling water, sometimes with a bit of juice in it for flavour. I'll still buy diet soda as a treat sometimes, though.0
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BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »I’ve never drunk anything but diet drinks since they reached the UK in the very early 70s (from memory) I remember Diet Tab cola being the first available - didn’t taste great but as a pre-teen who had a very skinny older sister I thought I was too fat (in hindsight I wasn’t, it was just comparison) it was a revelation calorie wise!
I don’t drink many these days but if I’m extra hungry I’ll drink a Diet Coke half an hour before I start prepping my dinner. Helps me greatly in getting the portion size right and not overcompensating for my hunger.
^ditto this.
I have been drinking Diet Pepsi since 1970. Beverage of choice for decades, with occasional switches to other diet pops, but always diet. I’m going to be 68 in 10 days, no health issues, so far, and on no prescription drugs.
Nowadays I drink ice water mostly. I do have Diet Pepsi and diet citrus green tea in the house because I like it occasionally.
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I usually drink 3 bottles of diet soda a day and have done so for decades (before gaining 240+ pounds, during my weight loss of all those pounds, and now in maintenance for the last couple years).3
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Yep, a can of Coke Zero most mornings on my way into work.
I don't like spending calories on beverages (except the adult kind), so I have been drinking diet sodas for years.1 -
I had two cans this morning...I had an upset tummy and for whatever reason it was helping. Usually I have one every other day or so. I know a lot of people say it's evil and it will make you fatter, but that hasn't been my experience.1
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Coke Zero is my spirit animal.
I usually drink one can a day 4 -
kenyonhaff wrote: »I had two cans this morning...I had an upset tummy and for whatever reason it was helping. Usually I have one every other day or so. I know a lot of people say it's evil and it will make you fatter, but that hasn't been my experience.
Eating more calories than your body burns is what causes weight gain. You’d have to drink a lot of diet pop @ zero (or very minimal) calories, no one is going to do that. Kind of impossible.
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Not much of a soda drinker unless it is accompanied by rum. Of all the diet versions, I like Coke Zero the best...3
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Discovering diet ginger ale (Canada Dry) changed my life. With or without rum. 1
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Kathryn247 wrote: »Discovering diet ginger ale (Canada Dry) changed my life. With or without rum.
Ginger Ale is fantastic with rum... 2 -
Kathryn247 wrote: »Discovering diet ginger ale (Canada Dry) changed my life. With or without rum.
Ginger Ale is fantastic with rum...
It's good with whiskey too2 -
slimgirljo15 wrote: »Kathryn247 wrote: »Discovering diet ginger ale (Canada Dry) changed my life. With or without rum.
Ginger Ale is fantastic with rum...
It's good with whiskey too
Yes it is. Also, to my surprise Gin.2 -
Yes it is. Also, to my surprise Gin.
Lies, Gin isn't good with anything.
I drink 1 diet soda a day. I get water at restaurants now since everywhere is unlimited soda refills it seems. It was mainly an expense and caffeine thing when I realized I was spending $50 a week or more on soda between 12 packs and restaurants and having trouble falling asleep at night.1 -
kenyonhaff wrote: »I had two cans this morning...I had an upset tummy and for whatever reason it was helping. Usually I have one every other day or so. I know a lot of people say it's evil and it will make you fatter, but that hasn't been my experience.
People who say that are either 1.) afraid of the "evil chemicals" that they think will harm you, or 2.) believe that drinking them makes you crave food, causing you to overeat. They have never had that effect on me.2 -
I have lived on Diet Mt Dew for a long time. Now drinking more coffee + tea because I have so much of it, but still love diet soda. Oh - and I've been maintaining a 50 pound weight loss for 18 years.3
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I grew up with parents who believed very firmly that ‘sugar makes children hyper’, so I’ve never really had anything except diet sodas. Every once in a while if I’m really dragging I’ll have a regular Coke for the sugar rush (yeah, maybe my parents were onto something 😛). I usually have 1-2 diet energy drinks a day and some kind of diet soda 2-3 times a week.0
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(Raises hand)
Been drinking diet soda since high school so roughly 30 years. 1-2 cans/day of Diet Coke. Drank it at my lowest and highest weights and everything in between.1 -
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I drink a LOT of cherry coke zero, it's my favorite
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Surprising that no one has pointed out that diet soda is not good for you. There are studies indicating that diet soda drinkers are at higher risk for metabolic syndrome. When I was slightly overweight I began drinking diet soda to eliminate calories from regular soda. I gained weight. I found out that fast food with diet soda is not a good diet.
Diet Coke has the same acids that regular Coke has, bad for teeth. Read the ingredients.
Diet Ginger Ale
Ingredients: CARBONATED WATER, CITRIC ACID, SODIUM CITRATE, SODIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVATIVE), MALIC ACID, ASPARTAME, CARAMEL COLOR, NATURAL FLAVORS, ACESULFAME POTASSIUM, CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA (PRESERVE FLAVOR).
Water is better
Can you please post links to these studies? I do know there are a couple MFPers that gained weight drinking diet soda, not from the drink itself, but they had issues with the aspertame causing increased hunger cues (iirc).
I started drinking diet soda a few years ago. I like the carbonation giving me that "filled up" feeling so I'm not snacking. I have tried carbonated water and ... no.
I've had to get several brands of diet soda into my rota for where there's a sale or the monthly checks come out so everyone has to stock up on Pepsi and Coke. My favorite so far is vanilla Coke zero. Found it at Walmart for a couple weeks and it's gone now.3 -
I stopped drinking coke and completely quit consuming corn syrup 6 months ago. I can't stand the taste of any artificial sweeteners, so I occasionally get a glass bottle coke with cane sugar. Just about all soda's have a cane sugar equivalent so I sometimes get root beer, ginger ale, orange crush, etc. to fulfill my love of carbonated beverages without having any corn syrup. I also have epilepsy, and apartame (sweet n low) is known to cause seizures, which is enough reason for anyone to avoid it in my opinion.0
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Surprising that no one has pointed out that diet soda is not good for you. There are studies indicating that diet soda drinkers are at higher risk for metabolic syndrome. When I was slightly overweight I began drinking diet soda to eliminate calories from regular soda. I gained weight. I found out that fast food with diet soda is not a good diet.
Diet Coke has the same acids that regular Coke has, bad for teeth. Read the ingredients.
Diet Ginger Ale
Ingredients: CARBONATED WATER, CITRIC ACID, SODIUM CITRATE, SODIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVATIVE), MALIC ACID, ASPARTAME, CARAMEL COLOR, NATURAL FLAVORS, ACESULFAME POTASSIUM, CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA (PRESERVE FLAVOR).
Water is better
Those studies are all correlative. Most likely because folks who ALREADY have metabolic syndrome switch to diet soda as a quick fix.
Lots of foods and drinks are acidic and will be bad for your teeth with prolonged exposure. Which is a great reason to also sip water throughout the day and practice good oral hygiene.7 -
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quiksylver296 wrote: »
You're just fancier than me
I do prefer the bottles, but not enough to pass up the awesome sale prices I can find on the cans. I'm cheap!1 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »
You're just fancier than me
I do prefer the bottles, but not enough to pass up the awesome sale prices I can find on the cans. I'm cheap!
I sink to cans for the Vanilla Coke Zero, because I can't find it in the bottle. Vanilla Coke Zero is my mostest favorite.1
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