When we ask people about diet soda, the answer will be divided into two kinds of answers. So many pro and contra about diet soda. Some people think it won’t help you but even worse, you gain more weight with drink more diet soda. But some people also think diet soda is good for all of us since there are no calories inside them. Their reason is simple, diet soda uses artificial sweeteners (usually called aspartame) which won’t affect your teeth and blood sugar levels.
Diet Coke, a product from Coca Cola is a pure example for this. Diet Coke has only 1.3 calories in each can, different from regular Coca Cola can which contains 142 calories. Wow, the difference is big, isn’t it? So if you are kind of people who loved to drink soda or other kind of drinks which uses lots of sugar, you should replace them with diet soda. Let’s say if you drink one can of soda every day and from now on you replace it with diet soda, then next month you will lose 4,200 calories!
However, it’s the theory but practically, not everyone (who loved drink soda) can really lose that much when they start drinking diet soda. Maybe to get the best result, you must stop drinking any soda, including diet soda, even though I know it’s hard. Anyway, usually people who are practicing no-fat diet method can be tempted easily by tasteful drinks. Because they didn’t feel any “delicious” foods in their meals, so they ran to sweet drinks after they finished eating their meals. Many true stories to proof this theory, maybe you are having the same problem?
Yes, when we eat foods, we will consider the taste of the foods. Even when we are not hungry, sometimes we’ll still eat our favorite foods, right? Same to drinks. If you are a soda-addict, it’s better to start replacing your favorite drinks with diet soda. It’s much, much better than if you keep drinking regular soda. But still, I recommend you to plan a balanced meal so when there is any tasteful food/drink in front of you, it won’t tempt you easily.
Not only addiction to soda and other sweet drinks, but nowadays we often see people who addicted to caffeine. Caffeine is the basic ingredient in coffee and it can give us extra strength whenever we get bore or feel sleepy. Many weight loss pills uses caffeine because caffeine can change your “desire” against tasteful meals.
But I still prefer to use diet soda if I was a soda-addict. Diet soda has the same effect with caffeine and it has less calories. Just remember, you should try to balance your meal, don’t eat foods without fat and if and only if you are a soda-addict, change it to diet soda.
