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While I'm in nowhere near as good shape as you, I have similar 'anecdata' findings. I spent the last few months this year testing this, partly because I was cu
by SyneRyder 9y ago
While I'm in nowhere near as good shape as you, I have similar 'anecdata' findings.
I spent the last few months this year testing this, partly because I was curious about the Tim Ferriss claim that Diet Coke causes you to gain weight. (I actually wanted to test if I could lose weight just from walking & no diet changes.) Even with my two cans of Coke Zero a day, plus sparkling water with ice and a frappuccino most days, I've been losing weight for 4 months. (20.5% bf down to 16.5%.) I did add exercise, but only walking - I increased my steps up to 16000 steps a day for a while, but I'm back to sub-10000/day now. (Pebble Health has been awesome on my Pebble Time Steel.)
Whatever effect carbonated beverages have, at least in my experience, it's easily countered by exercise. Maybe that's not true for everyone, but it seems it's something you can easily test on yourself for a month or two to make your own conclusions.
- dicroce 9y agoThe study says that carbonation makes you more hungry, but you don't necessarily have to respond to that hunger.
- code_monkey_ed 9y agoThanks for the advice Nancy Reagan
- autokad 9y agowow 16k/day is a lot. i walk home from work every day, that walk is just over 2 miles and I still only log in about 9k steps (iphone)
- SyneRyder 9y agoYup, at that point I was doing 2 - 2.5 hrs walking a day, though some of it was adding extra steps during my usual day, eg walking a half-mile lap around the shopping mall before going to the cafe. I was able to do it because I'm freelance / flexible hours, and I was determined to complete my experiment.
- aedron 9y agoThe usual knock on diet sodas (actually artificial sweeteners in general) is that it wreaks havoc on the gut bacteria, which could have all sorts of adverse effects. Not sure how much evidence of this there is, but weight gain is not the only thing to be on the lookout for.
- SyneRyder 9y agoThat makes more sense to me. I imagine one possible side-effect of gut bacteria imbalance could be weight loss for some people, that the side-effects differ for different people.