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This is particularly true for things like soda. Soda does absolutely nothing to help you feel full, but it's pretty calorie dense due to the sugar. Cut out adde

This is particularly true for things like soda. Soda does absolutely nothing to help you feel full, but it's pretty calorie dense due to the sugar. Cut out added sugars (and therefore soda) and BOOM, you're immediately eating less calories but not feeling any more hungry.

jclardy 9y ago
Yeah, a few years ago I lost 55 pounds. The primary change was just cutting out soda and an increase in light activity (mainly walking.) Also drinking more water in general. I found for me that if I went to the gym and ran I would end up overeating on those days, so instead I went with the small changes which worked well for me. For me sodas sweetness lended well to making super salty foods taste better, by cutting out the sugar in the sodas I didn't have the same desire to eat salty fast food items.
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eridius 9y ago
1 can of coke has 140 calories. A good rule of thumb is 3500 calories is a pound. So if you drink a single can of coke every day, after a year that's worth almost 15lbs. This observation is what led to me cutting soda out of my diet entirely almost a year ago (barring the rare treat). And don't be fooled by the promise of diet soda. Lots of studies recently have shown that drinking diet soda doesn't help with weight loss either. Apparently the artificial sweeteners do something to your body by tricking it into thinking it's getting sugar; I'm not really familiar with the details, but studies showed that people who swapped soda for diet soda didn't lose weight, but people who swapped soda for e.g. water did. This advice is what led to me cutting diet soda out of my diet 6 months ago (which I had switched to after cutting out regular soda), so now I drink almost exclusively water. If you're interested in cutting out soda as well, and don't think you can just switch to water, I have a couple of suggestions: 1. Start with those crystal geyser flavored sparkling waters you can get at Costco. I drank those for a while, because the hint of flavor tricked my mouth into thinking I wasn't just drinking water. I eventually stopped though, in favor of 2. Get a SodaStream and just make your own sparkling water. You can add flavor packets to this if you want, but I never have. Once you get used to it, unflavored sparkling water is pretty great. The downside here is the refill tanks for the SodaStream aren't cheap, but if you're concerned about that, there are homebrew carbonation setups as well (they just take up a lot more space; SodaStream is pretty compact).
- btilly 9y ago
  Apparently the artificial sweeteners do something to your body by tricking it into thinking it's getting sugar... Specifically what happens is that your brain is supposed to taste sugar, and learn to shut off your appetite when it has received enough. But artificial sweeteners teach your brain to ignore that signal because you get what tastes like sugar without getting sugar. So whatever sugary things you eat, you will eat more than you otherwise would without feeling satiated.
  - cornholio 9y ago
    >whatever sugary things you eat, you will eat more than you otherwise would without feeling satiated There is no scientific merit to this frequent claim. [1] In fact, a comparative study on dieters using diet soda versus water shown that the water group lost less mass, hypothetically because they were feeling hungrier and less satisfied with their diet, thus more likely to succumb to sugary foods. [1] Rogers, Peter J. "The role of low-calorie sweeteners in the prevention and management of overweight and obesity: evidence v. conjecture," Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
    - btilly 9y ago
      Huh. I made the claim based on having seen it in many places. But Google showed it to be less certain than my memory said it was. Thanks for the correction. I'll try not to repeat this one blindly in the future.
      - bitwize 9y ago
        The primary place I heard it was Hackernews broscience. Till now I even belueved it.
  - criddell 9y ago
    Is this true? It sounds a little like gym-science.
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mywittyname 9y ago
Soda also makes you hungry af. If I have a soda in the during, I'll be miserably hungry and "grazing" all night long. And it takes a few days for the effect to fully wear off.

jclardy 9y ago

Yeah, a few years ago I lost 55 pounds. The primary change was just cutting out soda and an increase in light activity (mainly walking.) Also drinking more water in general. I found for me that if I went to the gym and ran I would end up overeating on those days, so instead I went with the small changes which worked well for me. For me sodas sweetness lended well to making super salty foods taste better, by cutting out the sugar in the sodas I didn't have the same desire to eat salty fast food items.

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eridius 9y ago

1 can of coke has 140 calories. A good rule of thumb is 3500 calories is a pound. So if you drink a single can of coke every day, after a year that's worth almost 15lbs. This observation is what led to me cutting soda out of my diet entirely almost a year ago (barring the rare treat). And don't be fooled by the promise of diet soda. Lots of studies recently have shown that drinking diet soda doesn't help with weight loss either. Apparently the artificial sweeteners do something to your body by tricking it into thinking it's getting sugar; I'm not really familiar with the details, but studies showed that people who swapped soda for diet soda didn't lose weight, but people who swapped soda for e.g. water did. This advice is what led to me cutting diet soda out of my diet 6 months ago (which I had switched to after cutting out regular soda), so now I drink almost exclusively water. If you're interested in cutting out soda as well, and don't think you can just switch to water, I have a couple of suggestions: 1. Start with those crystal geyser flavored sparkling waters you can get at Costco. I drank those for a while, because the hint of flavor tricked my mouth into thinking I wasn't just drinking water. I eventually stopped though, in favor of 2. Get a SodaStream and just make your own sparkling water. You can add flavor packets to this if you want, but I never have. Once you get used to it, unflavored sparkling water is pretty great. The downside here is the refill tanks for the SodaStream aren't cheap, but if you're concerned about that, there are homebrew carbonation setups as well (they just take up a lot more space; SodaStream is pretty compact).

btilly 9y ago
Apparently the artificial sweeteners do something to your body by tricking it into thinking it's getting sugar... Specifically what happens is that your brain is supposed to taste sugar, and learn to shut off your appetite when it has received enough. But artificial sweeteners teach your brain to ignore that signal because you get what tastes like sugar without getting sugar. So whatever sugary things you eat, you will eat more than you otherwise would without feeling satiated.
- cornholio 9y ago
  >whatever sugary things you eat, you will eat more than you otherwise would without feeling satiated There is no scientific merit to this frequent claim. [1] In fact, a comparative study on dieters using diet soda versus water shown that the water group lost less mass, hypothetically because they were feeling hungrier and less satisfied with their diet, thus more likely to succumb to sugary foods. [1] Rogers, Peter J. "The role of low-calorie sweeteners in the prevention and management of overweight and obesity: evidence v. conjecture," Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
  - btilly 9y ago
    Huh. I made the claim based on having seen it in many places. But Google showed it to be less certain than my memory said it was. Thanks for the correction. I'll try not to repeat this one blindly in the future.
    - bitwize 9y ago
      The primary place I heard it was Hackernews broscience. Till now I even belueved it.
- criddell 9y ago
  Is this true? It sounds a little like gym-science.
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mywittyname 9y ago

Soda also makes you hungry af. If I have a soda in the during, I'll be miserably hungry and "grazing" all night long. And it takes a few days for the effect to fully wear off.