what's the consensus on 0 calorie soda? Is it actually harmless (unless you care about sodium)?
the only reason to avoid them would be if you had negative views on aspartame and the such
>>77004897It's fine. Just don't go drinking 10 sodas a day
I've replaced basically all sweeteners in my coffee and tea with splenda so if calorie free sweeteners do turn out to be bad I'm pretty fucked
>>77004903There are still options for non Aspartards
>>77004897Im on tirz and drinking or eating anything with artificial sugar makes me feel like shit. My body is clearly reacting to the artificial sugar even though experts will tell you it has no effect on blood sugar. Its only good for cutting calories but not controlling blood sugar.
>>77004935Artificial sweeteners don’t boost your blood sugar, but they do boost your insulin levels. You very well could be inducing acute hypoglycemia by having a low carb intake and insulin spikes caused by artificial sweeteners.
>>77004897Calories are not the only thing that makes soda bad. You're fucking up your taste palate and your dopamine sensors with fake bullshit, you'll never form healthy habits if you're constantly craving sugary bullshit and you'll never get over your cravings if you keep giving your mouth false signals with this.
>>77004897I don't know any fit person that I admire that also drinks diet soft drinks. The only people I know who drink diet soft drinks are all overweight carboholics.
>>77004897There's zero benefit and a lot of potential risks.Drink water or tea.
>>77004897Im apparently in the group of people that can "taste" a lot of artificial sweeteners. Stuff like saccharine thats in sweet and low tastes incredibly bitter, and a lot of the other sweeteners taste chemically and sort of bitter. Chemical sweet and bitter at the same time. It seems to heavily depend on what the drink is too because diet coke tastes like ass and the crystal light I do like both use aspartame. Its probably fine, if you trust the FDA to be honest about aspartame you apparently need to drink like 12 cans of diet coke to meet the dosage to be considered unhealthy, and an actual toxic dose is multiple times that much. But i dont blame anybody that is suspect of a Government agency lying to them.
>>77004897(((Safe and effective)))
>>77004897I was drinking diet soda and energy drinks. All claim to be zero carb zero calories but lo and behold when I stopped drinking them I started to lose more weight. I suspect there are hidden carbs in them like when there is less than .5 carbs per serving they get to say it's zero by some loophole. Or it's just lies. Or some shitty chemicals are as bad a sugar take your pick. I'm on plain seltzer only now. & the stevia I mentioned if I want sweet taste in coffee or something. >>77004920that Zevia soda shit is so expensive and only some of the flavors are good. Instead I got liquid stevia that comes in a dropper bottle and could add that to anything.
>>77004897>0 calorie soda>fat free cheese>sex with condom>half income goes to taxesCan't have shit in this bitch of a life
>>77004920I tried the cream soda zevia recently and really liked it. But yeah, it's damn expensive
>>77004920that'll be five goybux saar
This is totally anecdotal but I’ve verified it multiple times over my life. I don’t drink diet soda anymore but when I did, whenever I stopped I would have an insane headache for a day or two. At first I thought it was caffeine but I tried it again and this time drank coffee but I still got them. So idk what is in diet soda to cause those withdrawal type symptoms that isn’t caffeine but it fucks me up.
>>77005172>sex with condomkek>finally put it inside a woman>not actually touching
>>77005141Kinda same. I can't stand the taste of artificial sweeteners. It genuinely makes me sick.
>>77004920>zero fake sweeteners>has steviaWhat the fuck is the distinction? If aspartame is a "fake sweetener" then stevia is too. Maybe they mean "zero artificial" or "zero synthetic" sweeteners? Anything that sweetens is a real sweetener, fake and real is a bad distinction.
>>77006150True, lead is a natural sweetener too.
>>77005163From what I've heard these zero calorie drinks do not necessarily hinder weight loss but they do contribute to having a gut down there. It's a bit hard to put a cause-effect label on it because a lot of people who drink these try to compensate with a otherwise shitty diet.Anecdotally this could be the case for me as well. I almost never drink sugary drinks but I do drink zero soda on a daily basis, and the rest of the diet could be better for sure. I do think I should probably stop but it's so hard desu. I do drink quite a lot of water, but I have this unfortunate habit that I just can't drink it with dinner. Dinner for me is always served with some zero coke, ice tea, or even zero monster sometimes. I think this has caused not only bad sleeping habits but also a perpetual gut despite having a otherwise good upper body frame.
>>77004897Enjoy your cancer faggot.
>>77004897diet soda is the only type I crave. It has a different sensation in your mouth and I never crave 40 grams of sugar for no reason. I still believe it is bad for you and don't drink it habitually though.
>>77004920I unironically liked picrel.I think it had like half the sugar instead of zero though. Mouthfeel is always better with sugar and I feel like people fail to appreciate that.
>>77006150It's marketing. You have to dumb it down for the American masses who wouldn't understand the word "artificial".
>>77004897I really like Cherry Coke Zero
>>77004897I drink regular soda like a sane person.Once a week maybe?I prefer water though.
>>77005141This.After I got the chinese flu, a lot of things started to taste different and icky for me.Went from 250 lbs landwhale to 130 lbs skinny twink.
>>77008226You're right. It's totally sane and natural to mainline corn syrup mixed with caramel color and phosphoric acid. In fact, that's the most sane thing you could possibly do.
>>77004897>unless you care about sodiumWhat? There's negligible sodium in diet coke.
