It all holds me well until around 7 or 8 p.m. If I break routine and have a diet soda with lunch instead, I'm always starving by 5 o'clock.
SIDENOTE: Who punctuated the article above? Didn't capitalize "God," and in an article with a Rabbi? Sheesh.
I have never gone in for "diet" soda, "lite" beer, "lo-fat" anything or any of the other diet scams. If you wanna lose weight, there's only one sure way - put the fork down, and walk instead of ride.
In an interview with a rabbi, it should be G_d.
I tried the same thing and rapidly lost 15 pounds - the only change I made was to cut out carbonated beverages in favor of water.
Drink water.
I am not so sure about the validity of this article. The statistics may and probably represent the differences between people who chose to drink diet pop instead of regular.
I cut out diet soft drinks (which means all soft drinks for me) a few weeks ago, to see if avoiding artificial sweetners made a difference in my joint pain. I tell you, I miss them! There is something about the carbonation that just makes drinks more refreshing to me. I also miss having something sweet, since I low carb, and now, without artificial sweetners....well...YIKES!
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So, it's not the Double Big Mac, Super-sized, extra value meal, it's the diet soda.
Fat people can no longer load their trays to over flowing and buy a diet soda to balance the meal? Bummer.
What they don't point out is that soda has a lot of sodium in it. That always makes me hungry.
While the message about drinking diet soda leading to weight gain and/or a craving for real carbohydrates may be essentially correct, the reason stated in the article may be incorrect. I'd guess that what is happening is that he was drinking diet soda sweetened with aspartame, which may cause the body to generate the same insulin response as a drink sweetened with real sugar. By contrast, sweeteners such as Splenda may not cause that response. So, it may be that he could have continued drinking diet soda as long as he switched to one that was sweetened with Splenda. (I am neither a doctor nor a nutritionist, so take anything that I say with a grain of, er, Splenda)...
Food coach? People now need food coaches? That's too funny. Almost as funny, I'm sure, as hearing Ms. Katz explain the chemistry of how diet drinks affect the appetite for up to 12 hours. Good grief. Diet drinks don't make people fat. Consuming more calories than you burn increases your weight. Too many people are trying to assign blame to something other than the real cause.
I just lost 62lbs and I drank diet, caffeine free soda almost every day.
No diet colas? Aw, geez, what's the point?
I've noticed with diet soda that I feel hungry very quickly afterwards. I only drink it when I'm driving and need a bit of caffiene to help stay awake.
Television stations do a terrible job of copy editing. They didn't even use quotation marks in that sentence, either.