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shot_gun_shawn
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Has anyone had very quick results when they cut pop/soda whichever you call it completely out of their diet
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shot_gun_shawn wrote: »Has anyone had very quick results when they cut pop/soda whichever you call it completely out of their diet
Some people do. It really depends on how many you drink and what percentage of your daily calories come from soda. If you drink quite a bit and eliminating it would put you in a calorie deficit, it will work for you.6 -
But what happens after you lose the weight? Will you go back to drinking soda, slowly reintroduce it at smaller quantities, Or never drink it again? It’s worth thinking about that now, so you don’t gain the weight back afterwards. You could use the weight loss period as a time to learn how to drink soda in smaller quantities.6
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a normal bottle of coke (not diet/coke zero) is approx 230cal for 16oz (I believe) - so if you were drinking multiple bottles a day that would be an easy win; if you were drinking diet coke or coke zero less effect because it has no calories6
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I modified my soda habit from coke to diet coke while I shredded 100+ pounds and now maintaining and like diet pop better. I just made it a lifelong commitment. Good Luck!3
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If a person routinely drinks a lot of calories through soda and switching to a no calorie substitute puts them in a calorie deficit, they can lose weight. The size of the deficit would determine the results, moreso than the cutting out the soda part.
You can log your daily calories accurately including soda and use a TDEE calculator to figure out if cutting soda would be enough to put you in a deficit or not.1 -
Depends on consumption. Some people drop it and substitute it with sugar laden juices (thinking they are healthier) and lose no weight. If it puts you in a calorie deficit, then you'll lose weight.
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I quit pop all together and replaced it with water also tried watching sugar in my food and just eating less not necessarily healthy but way less and I dropped 30 pounds in 3 1/2 months I drank probably 3/4 full sugar oops and 1 sometimes 2 full sugar monsters a day1
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Weight loss is all about consuming less calories than your body burns. So if cutting out soda puts you in a deficit, then it will help you lose weight. But if you are still in a surplus after cutting out soda, you won't lose weight.
Personally, I almost never drank soda when I was obese, so cutting it out wouldn't make any difference for me. I had to cut my food intake (and increase exercise). But if you are drinking multiple sodas a day, and your food intake is naturally at a deficit, then it could work for you.4 -
Not me. But then I was drinking diet, and not all that much, so I wouldn't expect it to make a difference.0
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No. I did this years ago (before I understood how this really works) and still continued to gain weight (slowly over several years). Now I drink what I want when I want it as long as it fits in my calories for the week (and doesn't push out other important things like protein and fat). I dropped 50+ pounds doing this and have been maintaining for 5 years.4
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shot_gun_shawn wrote: »I quit pop all together and replaced it with water also tried watching sugar in my food and just eating less not necessarily healthy but way less and I dropped 30 pounds in 3 1/2 months I drank probably 3/4 full sugar oops and 1 sometimes 2 full sugar monsters a day
Keep in mind that it's very common to lose weight quickly in the first few weeks of restricting calories. That is largely water, not fat. You're averaging slightly over 2 lb/week weight loss, which would only be a healthy rate of fat loss if you have roughly 100+ pounds to lose. If you continue losing at that pace and you don't have a lot to lose, then you should eat more.2 -
A good chunk of my initial weight loss came from just cutting soda...I was drinking 3-6 full sugar sodas daily, so it was quite a few calories.0
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When starting a weigh loss regimen, or trying to reduce carbs because of an IR or T2Dm diagnosis, the easiest first step is to cut down on, or completely cut out, sugary beverages like soda, fancy coffee drinks, and fruit juice. As long as you don't replace them with something else of similar calories you should see a difference. How much that difference is will depend on how much you actually average during a day. If you drink two 20oz full sugar sodas per day and stop without replacing them, you will already be reducing your calories by an average of 460 per day which should result in almost a pound per week loss.
Just remember, if you drink cola, Dr, Pepper, Mt, Dew, or others with caffeine and stop you might go into caffeine withdrawal so substituting with Diet soda or black coffee and titrating down might be a good course of action.2 -
BTW it's coke not soda or pop. They are all coke just different flavors like Dr Pepper, 7-up, mountain dew, orange and rootbeer LOL5
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BTW it's coke not soda or pop. They are all coke just different flavors like Dr Pepper, 7-up, mountain dew, orange and rootbeer LOL
No, they are different things depending on your location.
Where I live they are called soft drinks - and then one specifies if one means a particular one- coke, pepsi, lemon squash etc
(I use the term soda on MFP because I think it is more world wide recognisable - I dont use it in real life)
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BTW it's coke not soda or pop. They are all coke just different flavors like Dr Pepper, 7-up, mountain dew, orange and rootbeer LOL
Yep, I've lived in "Coke Country" too!
Also where it is called "pop", "soda", and "soft drinks".
Language is fun. Living in different places is fun, too.4 -
paperpudding wrote: »BTW it's coke not soda or pop. They are all coke just different flavors like Dr Pepper, 7-up, mountain dew, orange and rootbeer LOL
No, they are different things depending on your location.
Where I live they are called soft drinks - and then one specifies if one means a particular one- coke, pepsi, lemon squash etc
(I use the term soda on MFP because I think it is more world wide recognisable - I dont use it in real life)
Soft drinks is understood in the US. It's what restaurants often use.
I grew up in and live in pop country, but I went to college in the enemy soda part of the country (kidding) and use both somewhat interchangeably. If I ordered diet coke and someone brought me diet pepsi, let alone Dr Pepper or a Diet Dew, that would not be okay!4 -
Yeah baby!!! I got "8" disagrees, that's awesome! So for all you that disagreed Have a Coke and a Smile ... any flavor you want.2
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Coke runs in our veins. We don’t even eat at restaurants that serve the other, or if we find ourselves in one by accident, we order water.
My husband’s granddaddy had the opportunity to buy Coke stock for a dime a share during the Depression, but didn’t - a gross misjudgement the family still mourns today.
I coulda had me one of them there pro-fessional cheyufs like Oprah and would never have even had to be on MFP.
I am slowly learning to love the diet stuff. At first I couldn’t bear the taste of it, but it grows on you in small doses.4 -
Yeah baby!!! I got "8" disagrees, that's awesome! So for all you that disagreed Have a Coke and a Smile ... any flavor you want.
vanilla, cherry, diet, "0"......
Sorry, I'm from in between the "coke" and "soda" areas, and here its called pop, though soda and soft drinks are understood. I didn't realize that "coke" could also be a general term in use until I was older and read it somewhere.springlering62 wrote: »....I am slowly learning to love the diet stuff. At first I couldn’t bear the taste of it, but it grows on you in small doses.
me too, but I still can't take regular diet of anything except Diet Dr. Pepper. I don't mind Coke 0 and will drink that on occasion, and Pepsi 0 isn't horrible (apparently, NC is pepsi country, or at least, the few folks I know from there are huge Pepsi fans. I was always more into Dr. Pepper lol)
Diet A&W isn't too bad either, when I a hankering for root beer, or perhaps a float - use low cal icecream and diet rootbeer and you get a pretty nice dessert without a ton of sugar or calories....
for the OP: I'm with those up top: as long as you don't replace what you were drinking in pop with other sugar laden drinks, and you don't increase your food intake to compensate, cutting out pop could help you and could be a good first, small step toward changing your eating habits. As others have said, when it comes down to it, weight loss is all about the deficit - you want to lose weight, you gotta eat less than you use.1 -
I was a Pepper until I was 32 or 33 years old. I mean at least 32 oz a day and often more like 100 oz. When I quit soda I lost 20 pounds without doing anything else. It was a life-changer for sure. That was 18 years ago and now I can't drink more than half of any soda without feeling a little sick. The carbonation gets me, was I constantly burping for 30 years?1
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I drink very very little coke, pop, soda or soft drinks these days. I live in Texas and most places it's sweet tea, which to me is too sweet so I always go with unsweet or have them bring me half sweet. Otherwise it's water, milk, beer, alcohol or even just soda water.2
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Sweet tea is another of those regional things. If I ordered "tea" or "iced tea," I'd assume that meant unsweetened, but I guess in some places you have to specify "unsweetened," which seems weird to me. I have been traveling to MS a bunch for work over the past couple of years, and I recall one of the first trips there we got lunch brought in and our hosts assured us they'd gotten unsweet tea since they knew that's how Yankees liked it.1
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I inadvertently conducted an experiment with myself and soda. I have fibromyalgia and arthritis.
During my first marriage, money was tight. He drank soda, and I drank soda, but if I was out I would happily drink hot or iced tea or water. So given that, if we had money for only one case of soda, then we bought his; a dollar box of tea bags would make me quite a lot of tea.
At that point, our washer quit, so we started taking the laundry to my mother's house just outside town and doing it while visiting with her and the son who lives with her to help her out. She asked, was there anything she could keep for me there? I said, yeah, a case of Diet Coke. I could drink it through the afternoon while doing four or five loads of laundry and that was easier than making tea at someone else's house.
We had a tight couple of months due to car repairs, and so I drank tea at home. When I went to my mother's for laundry, I had three or four sodas.
I began to make sure that when I planned Monday's meals that they were light; Sunday with my mother at her house just made me ACHE. It might be her chairs being wrong sized, it might be all the lifting and carrying I did in the process of doing the laundry, or it might be the change in food when we ate with her. No telling.
One week, however, I got there, and discovered my son had drunk all my soda. "I'll get you more!" he said. "Oh, that helps a lot right now!" I pointed out, and sighed and made a pot of tea. The following day I didn't hurt any worse than I usually do, and was happy about this, and went on with my day. The next weekend, yep, he'd replaced the sodas he drank. Following Monday was a normal Monday, which is to say, aching.
A few weeks later, it happened again. Again, I had tea at my mother's, and Monday when I woke up and felt decent, a light bulb went on. Maybe it was the soda! I cut out soda altogether at my mother's and at home, and felt rather better than I had. Much less pain and stiffness.
Your mileage may vary, but if you like me have chronic pain, it's worth a try. I won't drink it now. It doesn't even taste good any more.2 -
All that matters is you consume fewer calories than you burn. Cutting out calories from any kind of beverage is a great way for many people to help achieve that.2
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BTW it's coke not soda or pop. They are all coke just different flavors like Dr Pepper, 7-up, mountain dew, orange and rootbeer LOL
I remember as a child that two cousins, one from the Great Lakes region of the Midwest, and one from a southern-bordering part of the Midwest, turned to me to settle an argument between "pop" (Great Lakes) and "sode-y" (more southern part of Midwest). I said that while we (southern part of Mid-Atlantic) did sometimes call it so-DUH, we mostly just called it coke, as in, "Do you want some coke? We have orange, ginger ale, and root beer." Oddly, living in the same region, I don't hear this much anymore, especially not from younger people. I think the influence of national media, combined with the increased likelihood of relocating from one's childhood location, has leached a lot of the colorful variations in regional speech right out of us.0 -
paperpudding wrote: »BTW it's coke not soda or pop. They are all coke just different flavors like Dr Pepper, 7-up, mountain dew, orange and rootbeer LOL
No, they are different things depending on your location.
Where I live they are called soft drinks - and then one specifies if one means a particular one- coke, pepsi, lemon squash etc
(I use the term soda on MFP because I think it is more world wide recognisable - I dont use it in real life)
Soft drinks is understood in the US. It's what restaurants often use.
I grew up in and live in pop country, but I went to college in the enemy soda part of the country (kidding) and use both somewhat interchangeably. If I ordered diet coke and someone brought me diet pepsi, let alone Dr Pepper or a Diet Dew, that would not be okay!
oh thats interesting - I never see it referred to as soft drink by americans on this forum.
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