Do diet sodas make you fat?

For some people the artificial sweetener does make them crave more food. It's all about self control.

Also people are likely to drop weight if they stop drinking it for a while because of bloat caused by carbonation.

apparently they still cause sugar spikes, making you hungry later

I've lost 27 lbs, went from about 18 to 11% body fat, never hit a plataeu (sp?), eat EXTREMELY healthy, and have a diet coke almost every morning on the way to work. I also quit diet coke for 2 weeks about a month ago for kicks to see what effects it would have. All it did is not provide an avenue for my sweet tooth and I would want to eat more w/out it... becuase it was always kind-of a filler for me. I'm not saying its the healthiest, and I'm sure people are going to bring their studies and personal experiences, but for me... it didn't make a difference. If anything, it made things just a little worse.

Aspartane may be bad... I don't know. My wife would tell you that you'll die of brain cancer if you drink diet coke. The FDA says aspartane is fine... and you'll find a million different opinions. So you'll have to choose for yourself. For me, its fine.

Diet soda made me more hungry ultimately - it's full of all kinds of chemicals. I don't do soda anymore for that reason.

I don't drink soda anymore really, but when I do have the occasional diet soda, I don't get a craving for anything else. It usually just makes me feel bloated and gross about myself. But my mother drinks about 4 diet sodas a day and is in amazing health. It just depends on the person. I guess anything carbonated makes me feel icky..

I was addicted to coca cola for 24 years. I dropped from normal to diet about 6 years ago.

I heard about diet drinks causing sugar cravings for some people and tested it for 3 weeks to see if I was affected. After every can I made sure my next drink was a coffee with one sugar. I used to drink between 8-12 cans a day! I lost weight , didn't eat any crap but my cravings seemed to be crap carbs not sugar.

I have now totally kicked the coke, withdrawing slowly via decaff as I knew from previous attempts that the caffeine withdrawal is hideous.

I now have one caffeine drink a day which as my new lifestyle is progressing I find I am enjoying less and less each day.

I am a coke addict (the legal stuff!!) I am going a month without it. Personally when I drink it my stomach swells very noticeably. (In fact alcohol does the same too, so I don't drink it)

I am doing a mini detox this month in a bid to shed some half my total weight to lose! I want to give my body a kick start, no caffeine at all! Bye bye chocolate, coffee and coke)

With Diet Coke I noticed that it filled me up, but the problem is, I would go into the kitchen grab a coke and because I was in the fridge I would pull something else out of the fridge at the same time!

I will never go back to drinking as much diet coke as I did (3-7 cans a day!!!) but I will have one every now and then, as they say everything in moderation!

I lost 90 pounds and drank a LOT of diet sodas during that time.

Diet sodas themselves don't make you fat. But they can mask sugar cravings, leaving you to binge on sugar later on. I combatted that by treating myself freuqently enough and in small enough portions that I didn't do sugar binges.

Are they healthy? Nope. But they're not fattening.

No, they don't. What makes you fat is moving your fork more than you move your *kitten*.

I have always hated diet soda. But I am slowly making the change from drinking coca cola to ginger ale when I am at a restaurant. At home, I drink water, sometimes with lemons, sometimes without

The making you fat aspect of diet coke is that people think that since they are having a diet coke they could eat whatever else they wanted. If you drink it in place of regular soday and just keep tracking your calories, it shouldn't be an issue.

I drink them. No, alone, diet soda has not contributed to weight gain or loss as far as I can tell.

I drink diet coke instead of eating a load of sweets or chocolate. It's zero calories and for me it's like having a treat, I only have maybe 1 small glass a day.

I don't eat a load of junk after having a glass.

I think that one or two a diet sodas a day won't hurt you if you also hydrate with other fluids. I think the diet cola theories are more aimed at guys like me since I am a huge drinker during meals, 3-5 glasses. I used to drink diet pepsi, still have the occasional pepsi max, but now drink unsweet tea at restaraunts.

I've lost 27 lbs, went from about 18 to 11% body fat, never hit a plataeu (sp?), eat EXTREMELY healthy, and have a diet coke almost every morning on the way to work. I also quit diet coke for 2 weeks about a month ago for kicks to see what effects it would have. All it did is not provide an avenue for my sweet tooth and I would want to eat more w/out it... becuase it was always kind-of a filler for me. I'm not saying its the healthiest, and I'm sure people are going to bring their studies and personal experiences, but for me... it didn't make a difference. If anything, it made things just a little worse.

Aspartane may be bad... I don't know. My wife would tell you that you'll die of brain cancer if you drink diet coke. The FDA says aspartane is fine... and you'll find a million different opinions. So you'll have to choose for yourself. For me, its fine.

Thank you! I usually drink a diet coke in the am with my breakfast or on the way to work. A 12 oz can is enough. The rest of the day is usually water or the occasional iced tea. It hasn't made me crave anything sweet at all. Actually, the more I lose the less I crave sweets!