Does diet pop make you fat?
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I'm not positive, but I believe it is in diet pop. If anybody has a diet soda laying around, check the ingrediants for me and see if its in there. TIA.
Weird, must be something else in your diet or exercise. I drink a lot of pop and made the switch to diet a few years back and between that and not eating as much junk food I lost 20 pounds pretty quickly and lost nearly 40 pounds in 2 years and that was all just watching what I eat while still splurging on stuff I like once in awhile. I need to get back to that mentality again as I let it slip a little over the past year and put on about 10 pounds.
Damn, I'm wrong again.
Disregard post #3.
I also just googled a diet mtn dew and diet coke and it wasn't in that either.
Diet Soda has zero calories, so that's not the issue. If you're ordering a diet soda with a double quarter pounder with cheese everyday that might be more of an issue.
I drink way to much soda, mostly because I hate coffee, and it usually peaks every winter when the days are shortest. I call it, "putting on my winter coat".
I drink way to much soda, mostly because I hate coffee, and it usually peaks every winter when the days are shortest. I call it, "putting on my winter coat".
Diet pop uses asparteme or some other artificial sweetener that tastes sweet to your tongue, but is useless to you body as energy. Your body doesn't break it down, which means it doesn't get energy out of it, which means it receives to calories from the sweetener.
You are not gonna convince me that it doesn't have other biochemical ramifications though.
You are not gonna convince me that it doesn't have other biochemical ramifications though.
If you hit 40 or 50, your activity system might have slowed down.
My wife says she heard the artificial sweeteners make your hungrier. You might be eating more without realizing it.
There's been a theory that the sweet taste triggers a reaction in your body to expect calories to show up shortly. When those calories don't appear via the diet pop, your body causes you to seek out the calories it was expecting and you end up eating more. I don't know if that theory was ever proven or disproven.
Just stop drinking pop period. Diet soda is just as bad, has a ton of sodium, chemicals, etc. Wish I could take my own advice.
I am 100% sure that I have already said I was 100% wrong. But, thanks for letting me know again.
I firmly believe that there are...last summer I was 28 and had been switched to diet pop for a few months and was drinking a lot of it (5-6 cans worth a day at least). I woke up one morning with my left arm tingling and slightly numb. I didn't think much of it until it continued all day and the next day I couldn't feel much at all with it and then it started in my other extremities until I couldn't hardly pick up my toddler or tie my shoes.
I did a lot of online research (with lots of mistakes in typing due to my numb fingers :sad
and saw studies from other countries that have banned aspartame where people had similar symptoms. After 3-4 days I finally went to the doctor and they ran a few tests and ended up just saying that they thought the aspartame thing could be it. I quit drinking diet pop and slowly got rid of all the numbness/tingling. Since then I haven't touched any diet pop and have had none of the symptoms again either.