diet pepsi and water..............

Both have zero calories, so if I switch from regular pepsi to diet, I'm not adding any calories and therefore not going off my diet, right???

The calories are the same but I wouldn't drink just diet pepsi for all your liquids.  Water is good!

Diet pepsi has no calories, but how do you feel about the aspartame and caffeine?

Aspartame might be bad for your long-term memory (the jury is still out on that, scientifically). I've decided to avoid it, myself.

Caffeine can be an appetite stimulant.

Then again, if you're drinking regular pepsi, corn syrup isn't the greatest thing either.

So water is better, but you're right that diet pepsi won't affect your calorie intake.

Drink the water it is so much more healthier!!! I don't drink sodas any longer.....

Bottom line is yes the calorie content of diet pepsi is roughly the equivilent of water.  But do consider the comments above when choosing your beverage.

water = good for you
diet soda = a can of chemicals
don't eat fake food
eat real food

I learned this from some nerd friends  -

The sweeteners in diet drinks don't have any calories, and people like them because it tricks their mouths into thinking they're eating yummy sugar. Trouble is, it isn't just your mouth that you're fooling. Your body releases insulin because it thinks it is getting some sugar to metabolise, and when there isn't anything there, what happens? You get hungry!

Furthermore, when you grab that snack because your body thinks your blood sugar is dropping, that excess insulin is there to turn it straight into fat.

See if you can develop a taste for green tea... I didn't like it much at first, but now i have a couple of cups a day when I used to have DP. I still have one every now and then, but only with a meal. Ooh, and I also love flavored seltzer. Bubbly and no fake sweeteners (or natural ones).

True, but going cold turkey from pop to water is HARD and, for a lot of people, not really sustainable.  I'm currently off regular pop and down to the occasional diet pop and I did it stepwise to keep it sustainable.  First, I switched from Coke to Coke Zero (pretty easy; they don't taste much different 'till you get used to the Zero - then regular tastes syrupy).  At that point, I didn't actually cut down on my pop; just got rid of the sugary kinds.  Then, I slowly substituted in flavoured waters (vitamin water, Crystal Light, Nestea singles, etc.) for the diet pops.  Once that was ingrained as a habit, I started substituting plain water for some of the flavoured water.  Now, I probably drink water about 60-70% of the time, flavoured water maybe 20% of the time with a diet pop every couple of days.  I've also upped my skim milk intake to 1-2 glasses a day and I still indulge in the occasional glass of 100% juice.

I don't know about other people, but I find diet drinks to be quite handy when I'm craving something sweet.  I can sometimes have a handful of nuts & a Diet Mt. Dew & take care of my salty/sweet in one swoop.

As far as I'm concerned, going from sugary drinks (soft drinks, juices, etc...) to straight water all the time is a recipe for disaster.  Its pretty easy when all of this is fun & new to declare open season on anything thats not 'healthy', but as someone who has kept off over 50 pounds for the better part of 3 years, diet drinks help tremendously when you need a sugar fix or get sick of water, green tea, etc...Like I've said, I've been doing this for over 3 years & some people are better than others, but diet drinks can be a great substitute.  Just not all the time.

I am opposed to diet drinks because I don't have any use for sugar substitutes. I am opposed to regular soda because of the sugar. So I drink water, period.

But that being said? I agree with those who hold to "everything in moderation." If you need a diet soda, or even regular soda, from time to time to keep you on track, I see nothing wrong with that. I just continue to wonder if there really is something to all the talk about sugar substitutes. Certainly, I feel better overall having eliminated them from my diet. And given that, I wouldn't recommend to anyone that they drink diet soda on a regular basis.

Thanks everyone for your replies. I try to drink as much water as I can, when I can, but right now Im staying at my boyfriend's mother's house. I cant stand the taste of their tap water (its all I drink when Im home) and my drink choices are pretty much limited to reg pepsi and diet pepsi while Im here.  At least Im not drinking calories with the diet pepsi.

Original Post by keb1984:

Thanks everyone for your replies. I try to drink as much water as I can, when I can, but right now Im staying at my boyfriend's mother's house. I cant stand the taste of their tap water (its all I drink when Im home) and my drink choices are pretty much limited to reg pepsi and diet pepsi while Im here.  At least Im not drinking calories with the diet pepsi.

Buy a couple jugs of filtered water and keep getting them refilled at the store.  Then when you're done with them, plant something in the empty jugs or cut them and use them as dog food scoops or something.  Just don't drink chemicals.  How long are you planning on only drinking diet pepsi as a liquid?  I can't go more than 12 hours without drinking water.

I love soda, but decided to stay away from it for all of the above mentioned reasons.  I started to drink water with a splash of lemon juice in it.  It is all natural and has 0 calories.  Lemon juice is also said to have metabolic and digestive benefits, so that doesn't hurt either.  Hope you like it as much as I do!

I mention from time to time when this issue comes up:

 

I lost over 130lb on a diet of 2-4liters of diet coke per day and 1800-2400 cals and exercise.

check the artificial sweetener content. also the sodium,potassium and caffein contents.

try adding some lemon juice to the bad-tasting water. When I visited my grandparents in Arizona I had that problem, and lemon juice definitely made it drinkable.