Weight Gain After Stopping Diet Coke
A recent nine year study found older adults who drank diet soda continued to pack on.
Weight gain after stopping diet coke. However even though diet soda is calorie free its other ingredients can make it easy for you to gain weight. Additionally a report from the university of texas at san antonio concluded that diet soda plays a role in weight gain. And when it comes to sugar levels.
I was wondering if the water drinking would cause some kind of temporary weight gain until my body gets used to all the water after years of possible near dehydration. It seems to contradict the laws of physics. My appetite was out of control when i stopped.
If you are going to cut one bad habit try not to replace it with another. I am watching my weight have drastically cut calories am walking 3 or more miles 4 to 5 times a week and also quit a 6 to 8 can of diet soda a day and am now drinking water only or i have milk with cereal. It s true diet coke does contain just one calorie making it a much better alternative than it full fat cousin coke which packs 139 calories per 330ml can.
I stopped drinking diet coke for a month to see how it affected me and i realized i wasn t as reliant on it as i thought. So i wasn t just a diet coke addict. Although diet sodas are aimed at those looking to manage their weight and achieve weight loss they are often the number one culprit sabotaging your diet health fitness and nutrition expert jenny abouobaia told me.
So it seems logical that replacing one with the other should help. I was a bonafide sugar addict. I actually gain weight drinking diet soda.
I haven t drank diet soda in about a week and i disagree with the others. Partly because i was exhausted and needed the caffeine i m a college student we don t sleep haha so my body was craving sug. Both studies and experts say conflicting things about the health and weight implications of consuming artificially sweetened soft drinks but i suspected it wasn t good for me.