Does Diet Soda make you gain weight?!


Question: I was watching T.V. the other day, and a women was talking about how diet soda actually makes you gain weight. I have been completely cutting sugar from my diet, and have been subbing diet soda for regular. Is it really bad for you? If so why, and what makes you gain weight?


Answers: I was watching T.V. the other day, and a women was talking about how diet soda actually makes you gain weight. I have been completely cutting sugar from my diet, and have been subbing diet soda for regular. Is it really bad for you? If so why, and what makes you gain weight?

No. Diet soda does not make you gain weight.

Eating more calories/day than you need to maintain your current weight makes us gain weight. Every calorie counts!

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what? it has zero calories. unless the artificial sweeteners have some sort of way to magically make you gain weight, diet soda shouldn't in any way make you gain weight.

Usually the argument is that it tricks your body into thinking that because you're drinking something that appears to be sweet but doesn't have colories, in the future you'll be taking in calories and not connecting those to taste.
It's partly junk science. Diet soda has almost no caloric content, so it's not the soda that would make you gain weight but rather other behaviours it might encourage and correlate to.

Nonetheless, diet soda is nasty.

Diet drinks on their own do ~not~ cause you to gain weight (very very little anyway)

Where the weight gain comes in has a bit more of a psychological aspect to it. People who drink diet beverages tend to feel they can afford to eat a little extra. Lots of studies on the subject, no evidence to suggest artificial sweeteners make you gain weight.

yea i heard diet soda actually makes you gain weight too, it was on cnn a few weeks back but i didnt pay much attention to it. But heres wot i found on the net.

June 13, 2005 -- People who drink diet soft drinks don't lose weight. In fact, they gain weight, a new study shows.

The findings come from eight years of data collected by Sharon P. Fowler, MPH, and colleagues at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio. Fowler reported the data at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association in San Diego.

"What didn't surprise us was that total soft drink use was linked to overweight and obesity," Fowler tells WebMD. "What was surprising was when we looked at people only drinking diet soft drinks, their risk of obesity was even higher."

In fact, when the researchers took a closer look at their data, they found that nearly all the obesity risk from soft drinks came from diet sodas.

"There was a 41% increase in risk of being overweight for every can or bottle of diet soft drink a person consumes each day," Fowler says.

yes it does everyone is wrong. Diet soda has no calories and no fat but it still has sodium. SO in moderation it wont but to much sodium leads to water retention which leads to bloat and water weight.

yes it can depends on how much you drink becuase of all the caffeine in it can make you hold water weight

just look at it as a luxury item..1 diet soda a month isnt gonna bloat your belly...stick to water,green tea or fresh fruit juices most of the time

It can make you gain weight if you drink too many. I would suggest not more than three tins a day.

This is advice from my dietitian.

yesss b/c the artifical sweeteners actually contain things that trigger your bodys intake on calories...and diet soda does have calories read all of the fine print

Diet soda does not make you gain weight. It is sugar free. But has lots of unnatural additives in. Try to drink water too. Unfortunately it is not just sugar that helps with weight gain it is also saturated fat.

Junk food, ready made processed meals you buy in the supermarkets, alcohol sugared fizzy drinks, alcholol, and takeaway meals. These are all high in refined sugar and full of saturated fat. These foods will help you gain weight. That is why you need to keep these to an absolute minimum.

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