diet soda

It's more likely that your calories have increased or your activity
decreased. Some people claim that various artificial sweeteners cause a
variety of problems for them. This may be true but most people do not do a
scientific experiment to determine whether that is actually the cause. To
do so you must quit the suspected product, see an improvement, start the
product again, see bad results, quit again, see improvement, all the while
making sure that you keep everything else constant.

In news:1112732058.3fa94412632b045bb095653d37ffff80@teranews,
toby <[email hidden]> stated
| I'm sure this has been addressed many times on this group, but in
| several pages of Googling I didn't turn it up - so forgive me if I'm
| repeating -
|
| Does regular diet soda - diet pepsi etc - screw up the Atkins way of
| eating?
|
| I lost 35 pounds two years ago, kept it off with no difficulty till
| this winter, and now I"ve put five back on despite being increasingly
| careful about the little carb additions I'd been making in the last
| several months. I have, however, increased my consumption of diet
| sodas. Is that the culprit?
|
| toby.
| Atkins since August '03 170/135/140.

toby said:

I'm sure this has been addressed many times on this group, but in
several pages of Googling I didn't turn it up - so forgive me if I'm
repeating -

Does regular diet soda - diet pepsi etc - screw up the Atkins way of
eating?

I lost 35 pounds two years ago, kept it off with no difficulty till
this winter, and now I"ve put five back on despite being increasingly
careful about the little carb additions I'd been making in the last
several months. I have, however, increased my consumption of diet
sodas. Is that the culprit?

toby.
Atkins since August '03 170/135/140.

If you want a good answer, stop the use of diet soda for a few weeks but
keep eating the same.

Personally, I found that I drank excessive amounts of that diet soda
when I started Low Carb...... and it was just wise to get rid of that
junk food part of my life.

I have no idea what effect it may have had on weight.... it was just
additional habit forming junk food, and more expensive than plain water.

Jim

toby said:

I'm sure this has been addressed many times on this group, but in
several pages of Googling I didn't turn it up - so forgive me if I'm
repeating -

Does regular diet soda - diet pepsi etc - screw up the Atkins way of
eating?

I lost 35 pounds two years ago, kept it off with no difficulty till
this winter, and now I"ve put five back on despite being increasingly
careful about the little carb additions I'd been making in the last
several months. I have, however, increased my consumption of diet
sodas. Is that the culprit?

toby.
Atkins since August '03 170/135/140.

I'm guilty of drinking at least 1.5 liters of diet sodas every day (I
know it i bad for me) and I lost over 40 lb very quickly eight months
ago so I don't think this is your problem.
Jerry

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Quoted message said:

I lost 35 pounds two years ago, kept it off with no difficulty till
this winter, and now I"ve put five back on despite being increasingly
careful about the little carb additions I'd been making in the last
several months. I have, however, increased my consumption of diet
sodas. Is that the culprit?

======================
I doubt it. I lost the initial 46 lbs low-carbing *and* drinking diet Pepsi
the whole time. Maybe not every day but at least several times a week.

Wysong
Age 60. Height 5'6"
Starting date: 1/8/05
171/ 163 / 140 lb
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In article <[email hidden]>,

jbuch said:

toby said:

Does regular diet soda - diet pepsi etc - screw up the Atkins way of
eating?

I lost 35 pounds two years ago, kept it off with no difficulty till
this winter, and now I"ve put five back on despite being increasingly
careful about the little carb additions I'd been making in the last
several months. I have, however, increased my consumption of diet
sodas. Is that the culprit?

If you want a good answer, stop the use of diet soda for a few weeks but
keep eating the same.

I was an inveterate diet soda drinker before starting low carb. When I
did, I cut out the diet soda and went to plain water for the first three
months. As I was doing so well I started re-introducing things to my
diet - the first was diet soda. I'm now back to my usual couple of
quarts a day, hasn't made a damned bit of difference to my loss rate,
which is 2.5 - 3 lb/week.

I'm sure it's still leaching minerals out of my system, inducing
dehydration, and all of the other nasty things people attribute to it.
If that's the most unhealthy habit I have, I figure I'm still doing
better than most.

KeS

toby said:

I'm sure this has been addressed many times on this group, but in
several pages of Googling I didn't turn it up - so forgive me if I'm
repeating -

Does regular diet soda - diet pepsi etc - screw up the Atkins way of
eating?

I lost 35 pounds two years ago, kept it off with no difficulty till
this winter, and now I"ve put five back on despite being increasingly
careful about the little carb additions I'd been making in the last
several months. I have, however, increased my consumption of diet
sodas. Is that the culprit?

toby.
Atkins since August '03 170/135/140.

I can see that other people don't think diet sodas is a problem, but
I've suspected it too. The first time I started doing Atkins diet I
didn't drink any sodas the first 2 weeks and I lost about 13 pounds.
Then I started drinking diet sodas (more than 1 liter a day), and my
weight loss stopped. Maybe it's different from person to person and
maybe the quantity is also important? And actually it wasn't diet Pepsi,
it was Pepsi Max (don't know if it's only here they call it that) which
uses another artificial sweetener than diet Pepsi, so maybe the type of
sweetener has something to do?

Morten

215/188/214

Losing during the first two weeks and then ceasing to lose in the third week
is how Atkins works whether or not you drink diet pop.

In news:[email hidden],
Morten <[email hidden]> stated
|
| I can see that other people don't think diet sodas is a problem, but
| I've suspected it too. The first time I started doing Atkins diet I
| didn't drink any sodas the first 2 weeks and I lost about 13 pounds.
| Then I started drinking diet sodas (more than 1 liter a day), and my
| weight loss stopped. Maybe it's different from person to person and
| maybe the quantity is also important? And actually it wasn't diet
| Pepsi, it was Pepsi Max (don't know if it's only here they call it
| that) which uses another artificial sweetener than diet Pepsi, so
| maybe the type of sweetener has something to do?
|
|
| Morten
|
| 215/188/214

Morten said:

toby said:

I'm sure this has been addressed many times on this group, but in
several pages of Googling I didn't turn it up - so forgive me if I'm
repeating -

Does regular diet soda - diet pepsi etc - screw up the Atkins way of
eating?

I lost 35 pounds two years ago, kept it off with no difficulty till
this winter, and now I"ve put five back on despite being increasingly
careful about the little carb additions I'd been making in the last
several months. I have, however, increased my consumption of diet
sodas. Is that the culprit?

toby.
Atkins since August '03 170/135/140.

I can see that other people don't think diet sodas is a problem, but
I've suspected it too. The first time I started doing Atkins diet I
didn't drink any sodas the first 2 weeks and I lost about 13 pounds.
Then I started drinking diet sodas (more than 1 liter a day), and my
weight loss stopped. Maybe it's different from person to person and
maybe the quantity is also important? And actually it wasn't diet Pepsi,
it was Pepsi Max (don't know if it's only here they call it that) which
uses another artificial sweetener than diet Pepsi, so maybe the type of
sweetener has something to do?

Morten

215/188/214

Is 188 your goal weight or your current weight? you seems to have got
it the wrong way round????

Pepsi Max has lots of caffine btw...

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Low carb books I have read suggest that it is the citric acid in some diet
sodas that can interfere with ketosis/weight loss.

Kiwi Mel

"toby" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

I'm sure this has been addressed many times on this group, but in
several pages of Googling I didn't turn it up - so forgive me if I'm
repeating -

Does regular diet soda - diet pepsi etc - screw up the Atkins way of
eating?

I lost 35 pounds two years ago, kept it off with no difficulty till
this winter, and now I"ve put five back on despite being increasingly
careful about the little carb additions I'd been making in the last
several months. I have, however, increased my consumption of diet
sodas. Is that the culprit?

toby.
Atkins since August '03 170/135/140.

A_M said:

Morten said:

toby said:

I'm sure this has been addressed many times on this group, but in
several pages of Googling I didn't turn it up - so forgive me if I'm
repeating -

Does regular diet soda - diet pepsi etc - screw up the Atkins way of
eating?

I lost 35 pounds two years ago, kept it off with no difficulty till
this winter, and now I"ve put five back on despite being increasingly
careful about the little carb additions I'd been making in the last
several months. I have, however, increased my consumption of diet
sodas. Is that the culprit?

toby.
Atkins since August '03 170/135/140.

I can see that other people don't think diet sodas is a problem, but
I've suspected it too. The first time I started doing Atkins diet I
didn't drink any sodas the first 2 weeks and I lost about 13 pounds.
Then I started drinking diet sodas (more than 1 liter a day), and my
weight loss stopped. Maybe it's different from person to person and
maybe the quantity is also important? And actually it wasn't diet Pepsi,
it was Pepsi Max (don't know if it's only here they call it that) which
uses another artificial sweetener than diet Pepsi, so maybe the type of
sweetener has something to do?

Morten

215/188/214

Is 188 your goal weight or your current weight? you seems to have got
it the wrong way round????

Pepsi Max has lots of caffine btw...

Then it might be 215/214/188. My goal weight is 188, and my current
weight is 214.

And how does caffeine affect the metabolism?

Thank you all for your responses. I was hoping for a magic bullet, of
course, and have stopped drinking the junk for the time being - we'll
see what happens.

toby.

Kiwi Byrd said:

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Low carb books I have read suggest that it is the citric acid in some diet
sodas that can interfere with ketosis/weight loss.

Kiwi Mel

"toby" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

I'm sure this has been addressed many times on this group, but in
several pages of Googling I didn't turn it up - so forgive me if I'm
repeating -

Does regular diet soda - diet pepsi etc - screw up the Atkins way of
eating?

I lost 35 pounds two years ago, kept it off with no difficulty till
this winter, and now I"ve put five back on despite being increasingly
careful about the little carb additions I'd been making in the last
several months. I have, however, increased my consumption of diet
sodas. Is that the culprit?

toby.
Atkins since August '03 170/135/140.

Quoted message said:

A_M said:

Morten said:

toby said:

I'm sure this has been addressed many times on this group, but

in

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several pages of Googling I didn't turn it up - so forgive me if

I'm

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repeating -

Does regular diet soda - diet pepsi etc - screw up the Atkins

way of

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eating?

I lost 35 pounds two years ago, kept it off with no difficulty

till

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this winter, and now I"ve put five back on despite being

increasingly

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careful about the little carb additions I'd been making in the

last

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several months. I have, however, increased my consumption of

diet

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sodas. Is that the culprit?

toby.
Atkins since August '03 170/135/140.

I can see that other people don't think diet sodas is a problem,

but

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I've suspected it too. The first time I started doing Atkins diet I
didn't drink any sodas the first 2 weeks and I lost about 13

pounds.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Then I started drinking diet sodas (more than 1 liter a day), and

my

Quoted message said:

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weight loss stopped. Maybe it's different from person to person and
maybe the quantity is also important? And actually it wasn't diet

Pepsi,

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

it was Pepsi Max (don't know if it's only here they call it that)

which

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

uses another artificial sweetener than diet Pepsi, so maybe the

type of

Quoted message said:

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sweetener has something to do?

Morten

215/188/214

Is 188 your goal weight or your current weight? you seems to have

got

Quoted message said:

it the wrong way round????

Pepsi Max has lots of caffine btw...

All diet soda is not the same. Various brands use different sweetners.
Dr. Atkins thought that from his clinical experience, aspartame
appeared to inhibit weight loss in some people. He recommended
choosing other sweetners when possible. Personally, I've used
aspartame as well as the others with no problems. Most people on here
have reported no problems either. I suggest switching to a diet drink
with splenda, at least for awhile, and see what happens.

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Morten said:

A_M said:

Morten said:

toby wrote:
> I'm sure this has been addressed many times on this group, but in
> several pages of Googling I didn't turn it up - so forgive me if I'm
> repeating -
>
> Does regular diet soda - diet pepsi etc - screw up the Atkins way of
> eating?
>
> I lost 35 pounds two years ago, kept it off with no difficulty till
> this winter, and now I"ve put five back on despite being increasingly
> careful about the little carb additions I'd been making in the last
> several months. I have, however, increased my consumption of diet
> sodas. Is that the culprit?
>
> toby.
> Atkins since August '03 170/135/140.

I can see that other people don't think diet sodas is a problem, but
I've suspected it too. The first time I started doing Atkins diet I
didn't drink any sodas the first 2 weeks and I lost about 13 pounds.
Then I started drinking diet sodas (more than 1 liter a day), and my
weight loss stopped. Maybe it's different from person to person and
maybe the quantity is also important? And actually it wasn't diet Pepsi,
it was Pepsi Max (don't know if it's only here they call it that) which
uses another artificial sweetener than diet Pepsi, so maybe the type of
sweetener has something to do?

Morten

215/188/214

Is 188 your goal weight or your current weight? you seems to have got
it the wrong way round????

Pepsi Max has lots of caffine btw...

Then it might be 215/214/188. My goal weight is 188, and my current
weight is 214.

And how does caffeine affect the metabolism?

I drink coffee myself so I'm no one to speak. However I saw it
somewhere that caffine affects the blood sugar level, so if you drink
caffinated drinks, your glucose level in your blood will still goes up
and down despite you cut out the carb from your diet. As you know, a
roller coaster style blood glucose level will contribute to increased
appetite and make you more likely to quit low carb or eat too much.