Soda

if you dont trade those calories for other calories than sure, you would.

i switched regular soda (dr pepper) for diet coke (didnt like diet dr pepper). but i also drastically changed out MUCH i ate, so weight loss could have been attributed to soda reduction, but probably was most likely attributed to OVERALL calorie reduction.

2021KW1991 wrote: »

Has anyone lost weight by just cutting soda out? And how much did you lose? Trying to start with small goals. Just curious if anyone else had results.

I have a relative who switched from regular to diet soda and that change by itself halted her weight gain (she drinks quite a bit of soda.) She's still overweight, but maintaining that is better than gaining more. I'm an occasional diet soda drinker and find regular soda to be much too sweet.

Everyone starts somewhere. I think quitting/reducing/switching to diet soda is a fairly easy first step for a lot of people. If you want to know if that by itself will work for you, honestly assess how much soda you drink now and calculate how many calories it is. One pound of fat is approximately 3500 calories. If you kept everything else as is, how long would it take to reach 3500 calories with your typical soda consumption?

I did way back in college, 36 years ago. I drank so much Mt. Dew. 7-Eleven and the Big Gulp were my best friend. I put on the dreaded Freshman 15. Towards the end of my freshman year I completely stopped Mt. Dew and all soda and dropped most of the weight I gained. I did not change any eating habits, just the soda.

Theoldguy1 wrote: »

There are 250 calories in a 20 ounce regular Coke. Switching out for Diet Coke with not other changes in diet/exercise will give around .5 lb weight loss a week.

Eliminating regular soda is one of the biggest bang for the buck weight loss tactics one can do.

This is presuming consumption of 1 can per day.

And still wouldn't result in weight loss if 250 calories less wasn't enough to bring you into a deficit.

It might just like PP's relative, reduce pace of weight gain.

( although I agree cutting regular soda is good bang for calorie buck )

I quit drinking soda(pop, here). It was a trigger food for me. The hyper sweet taste made me crave cookie and candy. It also made naturally sweet foods taste bad. It upset my stomach so that I had to eat something when drinking it. I drank water and unsweetened ice tea while going through caffeine withdrawals. Most people find it easier to switch to diet pop from regular. But I needed to remove all pop before I could make meaningful changes to my personal diet. Your experience may prove different.

I lost 15 pounds by making two small changes to my diet. Neither was sofa because I didn’t drink much of it previously either.
My two small changes were:
1) swapping the proportions on my breakfast to reduce cereal and increase yogurt
2) reduced the size (tried to eliminate - that was too big of a change) my after dinner/before bed snack (you know, that 8:30-9:30pm snack).
It took about 6 months.

My suggestion: Try it. What is the worst thing than would happen?
You might even find that you like the alternatives.

Good luck

I went from gaining weight to maintenance doing nothing but cutting soda. To lose weight I had to cut back a bit more on the pizza.

Not just soda but when I started I started small. For instance I stopped buying lunch at the cafe at work and instead brought a sandwich and bought reduced fat chips. Cut calories by at least 300 for that one meal. I did cut out the wine during the week.