Is Diet Coke making me gain weight?

Hey everyone- I just wanted to know if drinking zero calorie caffeinated drinks (like diet coke) can add to weight gain or prevent weight loss. I only drink one 12 oz can a day, but I was just wondering?

I don't know.  The funny thing is, i never drank soda until I started calorie counting, and that is when i discovered diet soda...no calories!   since then i have one abount every other day.  I've wondered the same thing  myself.  Is it alot of sodium, maybe?  If anything, I know it's not good for teeth.  I have seen zero calorie waters that have tea and vitamins in them, but of course, they are more expensive than soda.

Before I cared about what I ate/drank, I drank 2 - 3 diet cokes per day.  Now I drink 2 - 3 per week.  I can't prove it, but I am convinced that the diet cokes had a lot to do with causing sugar cravings. 

I now drink water, 2 cups of milk per day, and an occasional glass of white wine in the evening.  Sometimes I mix up a pitcher of cherry/pomengranite Crystal Light, but I can drink the whole pitcher, so I don't think that's good for me, either!  I only have diet coke when we go out to eat, so it's a real treat.  The feeling of being "treated" makes it easy to refuse an appetizer or dessert, because I have my diet coke.

Hmmm maybe i'm a freak but drinking diet pop actually curves my appetite.  Sort of hits the spot if i'm feeling a lil hungry or something.

I drink 1 pop a day, usually with dinner or as a snack if i'm inbetween snacks/meals.   My fav is diet Vernors!!!

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It is the Sugar, Carbs, and Carbination that is causes you not to lose weight.  It can actually cause you to gain weight...However, other people have been able to lose weight by cutting back in other areas...but it sounds to me that you are at a point in your diet that you need to start cutting back on your pop, and eventually try to eliminated it.

There are no sugars in diet soda. Aspartame or Splenda are artificial sweeteners. There are also zero carbs and 25 grams of sodium. (per serving)  So if in the above post, you are referring to regular soda..that's right. Diet soda...nope.

I think it's best to stick to water, sometimes I drink peligrino or perrier with lemon too...and diet sodas once in a while for a treat.

thanks! I just started drinking diet coke regularly (mostly just to get through work without falling asleep). I only have one can a day, the rest of the time i drink water. I was just interested if anyone had lost weight by cutting diet drinks.  I think maybe the sodium may cause water retention, and I am concerned about my teeth, but for now I think I'll stick to it....it gives me something to look forward to.

I used to drink pop more then once a day but since I started this I haven't missed it at all... infact now i find it repulsive. I had a bit of coke a few days ago and it was nasty... I felt so sick afterwards, never drinking pop again, diet or regular. If that isn't pure garbage into your system I don't know what is.

Diet drinks themselves do not cause weight gain, but the artificial sweeteners like Aspartame and Splendahave been known to cause water retention (happens to me) and also sugar cravings which if you give into, can of course aid in weight gain.

I love diet coke.  I have at least one a day.  I realize that it isn't the best for me so I compensate by flushing it out with at least twelve cups of water daily.

I personally do not like/use "fake" sugar, and your question prompted me to try to find an article I had read a while ago backing up my dislike for it, could not find that particular one, but I found 2 good articles that  I feel are good reliable sources... Hope this helps =) Yes too I believe it is NOT good for your body, I personally get headachs from it, and my mom gets migranes from it.  So I do not have personal "weight gain" problems with it, just cause if it gives me a head ach a couple times I give up on it.... Go with real natural things, you body will be much happier =)

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/Story?id=427 1246&page=1

http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20040630/artif icial-sweeteners-damage-diet-efforts

Diet soda definitely make me crave sugar like crazy, everytime I have one during work I always get candy from the vending machine at around 3 or 4.  Same with Crystal Light.  The stuff is poison... think of all the chemicals in it.  I'd try and keep it an one every few days.  I'm working on that :)

I dont think it will cause weight gain. If anything it will probably just cause a lil water retention. I love diet soda but choose to only drink it once and a great while. I always feel bloated after and for some reason it makes me think I cheated on my diet. lol

i dont think fizzy drinks like coke that make me gain weight!! but they make me look and fel like i have becaus emy stomach just bloats out!! that would be my problem!! i also read somewhere that the artificial sweetners that go into sugar free things, is actually harder work on your body to digest or something like that!! i cant quote it exactly, but apparently sugar free things are just as bad for you, but in different ways!! i guess other than things with natural sugr?

im not sure, ill look that one up

Maybe I'm crazy, but if it says '0 calories', then it won't make you gain weight. Obviously, if you eat a big mac meal with a large fries with diet coke, you might gain. But it won't be because of the diet coke, since it doesn't have calories.

I mean, sure, some people say that the sodium, carbonation, or even the splenda/aspertame, might make you gain, but I don't believe it. I believe in calories in/calories out. I really doubt that somebody who has a clean diet with a deficit every day will gain weight because they have one diet coke per day. They couldn't gain because they had a deficit!! Obviously, for somebody out there who doesn't know anything about calories, they might believe that the diet coke is making them gain when in fact its whatever they are having with it.

thats a bit silly!! i had a yorkie bar the other day that had 336 calories in it(woops) now, i could have had a good sandwich for the same amount of calories, but something tells me the chocolate bar is goin to have more of an influence to weight gain than a sandwich considering it contained plenty of fat and sugar!!! maybe im crazy, but i think theres more to weight loss and gain than calories!!

I read somewhere that these sort of drinks fill you up and so don't make you as hungry as you may normally be...could be wrong though.

I highly doubt it's gonna make you gain weight, but it sure does feed your (I mean, mine at least) sugar cravings. But I think it's good that I can have a yummy trat of 0,4 l coke at movies at 0 cal! Diet coke/pepsi is a life saver.

Original Post by eire:

thats a bit silly!! i had a yorkie bar the other day that had 336 calories in it(woops) now, i could have had a good sandwich for the same amount of calories, but something tells me the chocolate bar is goin to have more of an influence to weight gain than a sandwich considering it contained plenty of fat and sugar!!! maybe im crazy, but i think theres more to weight loss and gain than calories!!

... it's not silly at all. A calorie is a calorie. 1800 calories of yorkie bars = 1800 calories of apples.

Original Post by eire:

thats a bit silly!! i had a yorkie bar the other day that had 336 calories in it(woops) now, i could have had a good sandwich for the same amount of calories, but something tells me the chocolate bar is goin to have more of an influence to weight gain than a sandwich considering it contained plenty of fat and sugar!!! maybe im crazy, but i think theres more to weight loss and gain than calories!!

 The chocolate bar will only make you gain weight if your body feels nutrient-deprived so you turn around and eat *another* 350 cals of nutritious food.  In which case, it's the fact that you ate 350 extra calories that caused the weight gain - not the fact that they were from a chocolate bar.

Original Post by starcrossdlovex:

Original Post by eire:

thats a bit silly!! i had a yorkie bar the other day that had 336 calories in it(woops) now, i could have had a good sandwich for the same amount of calories, but something tells me the chocolate bar is goin to have more of an influence to weight gain than a sandwich considering it contained plenty of fat and sugar!!! maybe im crazy, but i think theres more to weight loss and gain than calories!!

... it's not silly at all. A calorie is a calorie. 1800 calories of yorkie bars = 1800 calories of apples.

 yes, a calorie is a calorie, if you actually read my post ,i said that 336 calories of yorkie bar = 336 calories of sandwich.  my point was, it takes more than calories to gain or loose weight. if your watching your figure, are you going to choose something with 20 grams of fat or 5 grams of fat??!