Are diet sodas ok to drink if you are on a diet. If no why not?

This is how I rationalize things. If I'm on a diet, then I'm being hyper aware of what's going into my body. I try to stay away from processed things and diet soda just seems like a processed version of sparkling sugar water.

Maybe it's just me, but I've never had that soda addiction. I may have one or two sodas a week at most and I rationalize that I'd rather have some sparkly sugar water than some chemically enhanced stuff that I'm never quite sure what's really in it water. Plus... if the Mayo Clinic says that drinking more than one soda per day (doesn't matter if it's regular or diet) increases your risk of obesity and related health problems... I'll listen!

mayoclinic.com/health/diet-soda/AN01732 If you're really attached to drinking something sweet, try switching to lemonade... then tapering down to lemon water if you're really trying to cut down the calories. Try to look at soda like you would a candy bar since it has about the same amount of sugar. People need to put soda into its proper perspective: junk food.

Diet sodas are your worst enemy when dieting! Many studies have been done that indicate a reaction to the sweeteners used in diet soda and your brain; causing you to eat more due to craving sweets. If you want to lose weight say no to diet sodas - or any soda for that matter - and drink what nature gave you, water.

Not only will you lose water weight and hydrate your body properly, but doing this will actually allow you to lose weight!

If you're really in a diet and dead-serious about dieting then the answer is no. It would be much better to take another kind of drink to quench your thirst. But, my best bet is go for water.

With diet soda your body will still tend to bloat due to the gas that it will release inside your body. And if you try to think about it... here's an analogy... why do you diet... to be healthy.... are there any kind of healthy soda... I don't think so.

If you absolutely can not give up soda at all then diet soda is better than regular soda. However if you are looking to lose weight eventually giving up the diet soda as well will have better results. Why?

Because even though diet soda does not contain sugar it does contain sodium, or salt, and in pretty high amounts. Because of this you will retain unnecessary amounts of water that your body could be getting rid of. Water retention can hold or add up to ten pounds to your body weight.

You could easily lose that by limiting your salt intake. Of course if you already suffer from any medical disorders you don't want to be messing with your electrolytes without consulting your doctor first. The most prominent thing for me, which has nothing to do with weight loss, is that sodas containing phosphoric acid actually increase the calcium and phosphorus in your bones increasing the chances of osteoporosis later.

Soda, even diet, is a bad choice all ways around.

No, you shouldn't drink diet soda or diet fizzy pop as it makes your brain think you are getting something sugary, so when you don't get any sugar, it makes you crave sweet, sugary foods and drinks.

Nutritionally, diet soda is much better for you than regular soda, to be sure - a difference of about 100 calories per serving, which is huge for those who are dieting. However, there are flavors, sodium, miniscule amounts of carbs, and a whole bunch of other things that your body isn't necessarily looking for when having a drink. Think about it - our bodies are 70% water, right?

So we have to continually drink water in order to keep our body hydrated and functioning. While diet soda is better than regular soda for us, our body is really just looking for water, not everything else that's included in a diet soda. Our body does need some of the ingredients - we do need sodium and carbs for our nutrition and energy levels - but often we forget about the nutritional content of a soda, and instead consume more sodium and calories throughout the day because the rest of them seem "hidden" in a drink.

Also, while our body can process all the ingredients of diet sodas, things like aspartame, high fructose corn syrup, and "caramel color" aren't what our body naturally needs, and we really could do without these useless ingredients in our bodies. Sodas in general also can provide some harm to our bodies - the citric acid used for flavoring in most sodas erodes our teeth enamel, and the controversy over the safety of the sweetener aspartame (used in place of sugar in diet drinks) is still on-going. So in sum, diet sodas aren't technically bad to consume if you make yourself aware of their influence on your diet and body, but water just simplifies things, and is safer on your body.

It's the standard advice you hear from your doctors - everything's good in moderation. :).

Aspartame (one of the fake sugars in diet soda) gives me migraine headaches. There's also a ridiculous list of problems / symptoms that it gives other people available sweetpoison.com/aspartame-side-effects.html. I'm not going to claim that all of those things are definitely caused by asparatame.

I don't know. I'm not willing to risk it. I'm very sensitive to chemicals.

Chemical sunscreens give me hives/blisters. Someone wearing perfume who gets in my elevator will cause my nose to bleed. I'm not going to intentionally put chemicals in my body that I know cause me problems and that have been reported to cause lots of other people problems.

If you're trying to eat healthier / lose weight, generally you should avoid all sugar and sugar derivatives, all packaged/processed foods, and concentrate on eating fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and beans (or possibly meats/eggs/dairy). At my gym, they call it avoiding the SAD (Standard American Diet).

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