How Thirsty are you? Diet Soda anyone?

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  • TheDevastator
    TheDevastator Posts: 1,626 Member
    It allows me to get my caffeine without any calories. Caffeine makes me more awake and puts me in a better mood, and being in a better mood and keeps me from beating up people who annoy me in the morning. This keeps me out of prison, where the food is awful and not particularly nutritious. So that's the nutritional value.
    take a caffeine pill or better yet a ginseng pill.
  • TheDevastator
    TheDevastator Posts: 1,626 Member
    I don't see the point in drinking diet soda and there's no nutritional value in it.

    What like water? Simply taste. We are fickle creatures, we enjoy tasting our food and drink.

    water with added minerals and flavored stevia is better tasting than any diet soda I've had.
  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
    Perhaps those who were drinking the diet soda were overweight and already at higher risk of all that stuff? Just maybe? LOL

    The study didn't control for diet.

    If you try to cancel out your quadruple animal style cheeseburger and xxxl fries with a diet coke, and you have a damn heart attack, was it the diet coke? Or your fat-filled greasy diet?

    Every one of my lost pounds was saturated in Coke Zero.
  • lesle1
    lesle1 Posts: 354 Member
    Every time I go back to diet soda my running suffers. It's so much harder for me to move when I'm on that stuff. Maybe it's just me. It also makes me crave sweets.
  • maidentl
    maidentl Posts: 3,203 Member
    Lots of people do plenty of unhealthy things while losing weight and are "successful". That doesn't mean it's good. I have a friend who lost 30lbs by ONLY drinking diet soda. That was it. She didn't eat, she just drank diet soda.

    For me, losing weight is about an overall process of treating myself better. I don't HAVE to drink soda, and it's ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS a better choice to put water into your body if you're thirsty. If ANY food or drink has that much control over you, I would question how successful you'll be in the long term in your weight loss and health goals.

    I guess anyone can nit pick anything to justify a bad habit.....but if you HAVE to nit pick to justify it then maybe it's not the best thing.

    I don't have to justify anything. I am a grown woman, I have done extensive reading on both sides of the artificial sweetener debate and at this time I choose to drink it. I would never argue that it's a health food but I don't see the harm in it. It's not like I am asking anyone else to drink it.
  • _SusieQ_
    _SusieQ_ Posts: 2,964 Member
    Did you know that Coca Cola was originally green?
  • maidentl
    maidentl Posts: 3,203 Member
    Did you know that Coca Cola was originally green?

    I did not.
  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
    AND contained actual cocaine.

    Now THAT"S a drink I would chug-a-lug!

    Bet it was amazing for weight loss ;)
  • onedayillbamilf
    onedayillbamilf Posts: 662 Member
    I don't see the point in drinking diet soda and there's no nutritional value in it. There are many better stimulants out there like ginseng.

    You're right. I will switch back to the real stuff. At least that has calories in it!
  • azura8181
    azura8181 Posts: 9
    I wonder if these diet soda is teh evilz threads going to outnumber the can I eats me exercise calories threads?
    *opens a can of cherry coke zero*
  • Dave198lbs
    Dave198lbs Posts: 8,810 Member
    drink it or dont drink it. whatever. what is strange to me though is how the avid diet soda folks (some of them) flock to these threads tp brag about drinking it like they are daredevil rockstars or something.
  • jnhu72
    jnhu72 Posts: 558 Member
    Did you know that by being alive your chance of death is increased by 100%?

    I will continue to enjoy my yummy soda

    Haha this is my exact thoughts. Every day something new is going to kill you.
  • BuckeyeBlubber
    BuckeyeBlubber Posts: 11
    I also gave up soda (specifically Diet Dr. Pepper) for lent. I've lost 3 lbs in the last week.
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