"Double 1/4 lb with cheese. Large and Diet

• I Wear Pants

  se-alum;945188 wrote:Link to the study?

  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39543011/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition/#.Tqd2QVaOcd4
• friendfromlowry

  ernest_t_bass;945150 wrote:I started drinking diet because sugar was eating away at my weak teeth enamel. Now I prefer it.

  http://www.fitday.com/fitness-articles/nutrition/healthy-eating/4-health-side-effects-of-diet-soda.html
• lhslep134

  

  sleeper;944937 wrote:Studies have proven that drinking diet pop to avoid calories actually makes you eat more calories than by just drinking regular pop.
  
  The "Diet" in diet soda is a marketing myth designed to hoodwink the masses.

  This is false. Diet soda doesn't make you eat more food, only you can make yourself eat more food. Diet soda serves a legitimate benefit if you don't make up the 400 calorie difference between a large regular coke and a large diet coke with 400 calories worth of food.
• I Wear Pants

  If you drink diet for any other reason than you like the taste you're a moron. If you were actually trying to diet you wouldn't drink soda at all.
• georgemc80

  I don't care what anyone says, Diet Cherry Dr. Pepper is amazing.
• WebFire

  lhslep134;945551 wrote:This is false. Diet soda doesn't make you eat more food, only you can make yourself eat more food. Diet soda serves a legitimate benefit if you don't make up the 400 calorie difference between a large regular coke and a large diet coke with 400 calories worth of food.

  Glad you know more than scientists. Eating false calories makes your brain crave foods to make up for the expected calories. Drinking diet pop does no good in losing weight.
• sleeper

  

  lhslep134;945551 wrote:This is false. Diet soda doesn't make you eat more food, only you can make yourself eat more food. Diet soda serves a legitimate benefit if you don't make up the 400 calorie difference between a large regular coke and a large diet coke with 400 calories worth of food.

  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,159579,00.html
• lhslep134

  

  WebFire;945874 wrote:Eating false calories makes your brain crave foods to make up for the expected calories

  That's exactly my point. As long as you exercise self-control, you save calories by drinking diet. That would be exactly what I'm referring to with my statement of "legitimate benefit"
• lhslep134

  

  sleeper;945877 wrote:http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,159579,00.html

  Your link speaks to the psychological effects of drinking diet soda. I was only speaking to the caloric effects of drinking diet soda, which are clearly better than non-diet soda.
  
  I can't help that people who drink diet soda lack the self-control to not overindulge to make up for the calories saved.
  
  Drinking diet soda doesn't make you gain wait. Lacking self-control to not eat more does.
• WebFire

  But your brain kicks off a craving. That is different that just having the will not to eat.
• Heretic

  

  WebFire;946076 wrote:But your brain kicks off a craving. That is different that just having the will not to eat.

  That's when you tell your fucking brain that instead of food, you're going to drown it in pot smoke until it can't remember what the fuck it wanted. At least that works for me.
• gorocks99

  

  Heretic;946089 wrote:That's when you tell your fucking brain that instead of food, you're going to drown it in pot smoke until it can't remember what the fuck it wanted. At least that works for me.

  Then, once that kicks in, your brain wants food again. Usually pizza. And chicken strips. Maybe chinese food...definitely potstickers. Awesome.
• Heretic

  

  gorocks99;946090 wrote:Then, once that kicks in, your brain wants food again. Usually pizza. And chicken strips. Maybe chinese food...definitely potstickers. Awesome.

  I decided I really needed to lose weight this year, so I found a way to get around that problem. When I started dieting, I took a couple months off the green, so I could get rid of the instinct to have a late night buzzed-up feast. When I picked up the pipe again, I've found I only eat big when visiting my college football watching buddies, often because they have a bag of chips or crackers laying around and I don't keep those things around my place because they don't fit into my diet. At home, I don't eat anything at night.
• lhslep134

  

  WebFire;946076 wrote:But your brain kicks off a craving. That is different that just having the will not to eat.

  Look, if you're eating at McDonald's, and you opt to get a diet soda, it doesn't matter how much your brain "craves" food, don't f**king eat more, it's really that simple.
  
  I'm speaking to the fat f**ks that drink diet soda and then consequently eat more, not because of a brain craving, but because they use the diet soda as justification for doing so. I personally feel that is more of the reason "diet soda makes people actually gain weight" than the effect of fake sugar on the brain.
• WebFire

  lhslep134;946115 wrote:Look, if you're eating at McDonald's, and you opt to get a diet soda, it doesn't matter how much your brain "craves" food, don't f**king eat more, it's really that simple.
  
  I'm speaking to the fat f**ks that drink diet soda and then consequently eat more, not because of a brain craving, but because they use the diet soda as justification for doing so. I personally feel that is more of the reason "diet soda makes people actually gain weight" than the effect of fake sugar on the brain.

  I agree with you. But the craving doesn't hit you when you drink it. It gets you later. I've never lost weight by drinking diet instead of regular. I have lost weight by drinking water instead of pop.
• sleeper

  

  lhslep134;946023 wrote:Your link speaks to the psychological effects of drinking diet soda. I was only speaking to the caloric effects of drinking diet soda, which are clearly better than non-diet soda.
  
  I can't help that people who drink diet soda lack the self-control to not overindulge to make up for the calories saved.
  
  Drinking diet soda doesn't make you gain wait. Lacking self-control to not eat more does.

  So couldn't you just say the same thing regarding regular soda? It's not regular soda which makes you overweight, its lacking the self control to drink something other than soda.
  
  This logic is terrible. I'll stick to the side that has peer reviewed research from multiple sources rather than some loosely constructed logical argument.
  
  Also, congrats on getting in UofA law, bro. #changetheworld
• Enforcer

  

  I drink Diet because Im a Diabetic
• 1_beast

  

  bunch of pop/soda drinking pussies...drink beer...specifically IPA's with bacon added
  
  hope this helps
• martyirish

  

  I always drink water
  can't drink fountain pop
• WebFire

  1_beast;946562 wrote:bunch of pop/soda drinking pussies...drink beer...specifically IPA's with bacon added
  
  hope this helps

  Beer is for pussies. Drink whiskey.
• rmolin73

  

  Whiskey is for pussies drink moonshine!
• WebFire

  rmolin73;946645 wrote:Whiskey is for pussies drink moonshine!

  Tis true.
• I Wear Pants

  Enforcer;946486 wrote:I drink Diet because Im a Diabetic

  This here is a non-moronic reason for drinking diet soda.
• DeadliestWarrior34

  

  Enforcer;946486 wrote:I drink Diet because Im a Diabetic

  Do the bitches know bout it?
• DeadliestWarrior34

  

  rmolin73;946645 wrote:Whiskey is for pussies drink moonshine!

  Moonshine is for pussies drink gasoline!