Diet soda...good for weight loss?

I guess I'm beating the odds as I drink about 8 Diet Cokes a day and @ 5'10", I am 166lbs.

If I drank 8 Cokes a day that would add 800 calories to my diet, since gaining one pound is 3300 calories stored, I would gain a pound every four days! So regular soda would result in me gaining 88lbs a year.

Very simply, maintaining your current weight at your current activity level requires 12x your weight in calories each day. So @ 166lbs I can eat 1992 calories today to stay even. Anyway you can reduce your calories is good IMO and your total calories from fat should always be under 20% of your diet.

 

Hmm.....

I think the study is inside out. Most folk who find themselves becoming tubby switched to a diet drink, those who felt happy with their body weight stayed with the old favorite. Thus the diet beverage drinkers were actually a heavier set of people. No surprise there, and that’s what the study actually shows. It does not say that two identical groups were fed normal cola/diet cola and one group put on the pounds.

How’s this for a parallel: Baby food prevents you from walking! A study (there is or was none) has found that once children move off baby food they soon start to walk. The authors have concluded that any child continually fed baby food would never scuff their shoe soles.

Lies, damn lies and statistics.

 

Diet pop contains a lot of aspartame and artificial sweetners. These artificial sweetners cannot be broken down in your body, so they are stored in fat.

 

I don't believe the anti-diet soda people for a minute.......they are funded by the sugar industry and none of their studies has any basis in science or reality. I'd bet you $$ that those people they are referring to kept eating fried foods, simple carbs and sweets. They are nothing more than drug dealers.

I've lost over 50 pounds by going low carb two years ago (anti-sugar) and I drink diet soda's.....1 a day probably.....kept it off too for almost two years now.

Next to tobacco.......sugar and/or simple carbs are the worst things you can put into your body. They are also the most profitable products for the multi-national food conglomerates. Nobody ever got rich of vegetables....wonder why ???.....anyone can grow them for free.......think about it. I'm not a vegetarian either.....it was just an example to make my point.

 

This is just plain wrong.

 

A bit of perspective about what can and cannot be digested.

About 10,000 years ago, Mesapotamians figured out how (quern-stones) to mill grains into a flour-like substance...

To this day, ain't a human alive can fully digest wheat.

Yet.

Evolution takes a long, long time.

*resumes eating linguine & meatballs with homemade sauce & garlic bread, washes it down with h2o w/ lemon slice*

 

Some of us were poor HS kids who had to share a soda with our girlfriends and she wanted diet, so we were converted out of econmonic necessity.

 

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I cut out soda completely out of my diet (not completely, but maybe 2 cans a month) & with a little amount of exercise & sensible meals, I lost about 12 lbs. in about 2 months.

The only thing I drink now is iced tea, Orangina, & water.

 

I try to avoid soda for one when I buy myself a twelve pack its easily gone in a week if not a few days! And the caffeine (along with the amount of it I drink keeps me up to long) I try to stick to water, tea and other stuff and switch to decaf afterhours so I have no prob sleeping. You always see people getting diet soda and then pigging out on other junk haha lol

 

wrong.

 

I agree. There's no proof of causation in that article - only correlation. It would be like saying walking down the street with a white cane (or Golden retriever wearing a handle leash) caused blindness.


Now, the only thing that I've seriously heard about diet pop is that the gases slow down the breakdown and absorption of other things in your intestines. True or not, I don't know definitively.

 

Well, you choose how to get your calories. I will always drink a diet coke with a double cheesburger, because I would rather have 700 calories in the burger and 1 in the pop, than getting a regular pop and consuming 840 total. Regular soda is empty calories I don't enjoy - however, I will take the hit for the hamburger.

 

I knew it. Thats the culprit. 4 years ago I weighed 42 pounds less than I do now. Then I met my future wife to be. She drank diet soda's, so I drank diet soda's. Now I know its the reason I gained all this weight cause she switched me to diet soda's. I am gonna go sock her in the mouth!

Thanks for the info!

 

Yeah that doesn't surprise me one bit. I have always said that diet soda was a hoax. Now there is proof.

Nice post.

 

Here's the corollary to that: The biggest people I know drink the most diet soda. Go figure.