Day 48 Report - down 1.5 kg so far this week - and a skeptical noteabout Diet Coke
 

Day 48 Report

The scale ticked down yet again today.

At the beginning of the week I switched from Diet Coke as my main
beverage to plain, unsweetened green tea. This is after seeing no weight
loss one week and just 0.5 kg the week after that.

This week I've lost 1.5 kg so far and the week isn't quite over yet. The
only thing I changed is what I'm drinking.

I am really beginning to suspect that Diet Coke adversely affects diets
in a way that has more impact than mere temporary fluid retention. Could
the listed calories be untrue? If it was just water retention I would
have suddenly dropped over a couple of days and then been flat again.
But instead I seem to be proceeding at a good pace all week long.

Anyway, the total loss so far this week is 1.5 kg = 3.3 lb. This is a
total loss, since starting, of 9.0 kg = 19.8 lb. Almost 20 lb!

doug

Day 48
kg: 126.5 / 117.5 / 69?
lb: 278.3 / 258.5

"Doug Lerner" wrote in message
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Day 48 Report

The scale ticked down yet again today.

Congrats!

At the beginning of the week I switched from Diet Coke as my main beverage
to plain, unsweetened green tea.

Green tea has various components that may postively affect metabolism.

"Doug Lerner" wrote in message
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Day 48 Report

The scale ticked down yet again today.

Great news!


At the beginning of the week I switched from Diet Coke as my main beverage
to plain, unsweetened green tea. This is after seeing no weight loss one
week and just 0.5 kg the week after that.

I was waiting for a follow up on this..


This week I've lost 1.5 kg so far and the week isn't quite over yet. The
only thing I changed is what I'm drinking.

Now that's the answer I was waiting to hear. Interesting outcome. I don't
drink diet sodas at all, but know I won't start now. I'd much prefer tea or
water in the evenings. Don't have any green tea - will have to get some now
:-)


I am really beginning to suspect that Diet Coke adversely affects diets in
a way that has more impact than mere temporary fluid retention. Could the
listed calories be untrue? If it was just water retention I would have
suddenly dropped over a couple of days and then been flat again. But
instead I seem to be proceeding at a good pace all week long.

Anyway, the total loss so far this week is 1.5 kg = 3.3 lb. This is a
total loss, since starting, of 9.0 kg = 19.8 lb. Almost 20 lb!

Congratulations on the wonderful loss this week. Keep up the good work.



doug

Day 48
kg: 126.5 / 117.5 / 69?
lb: 278.3 / 258.5

Well, this was just one person's experience -- and I expect it may be
more a matter of coincidence than what he's drinking. I'm sure it
isn't because Diet Coke has calories that they're lying about on the
label, anyway.

I lost 130 lbs. while drinking copious amounts of Diet Pepsi. I'm not
trying to recommend that anyone else consume diet soda, but I don't
think it had any negative effect on my weight loss.

Chris
262/130s/130s

Congrats !!!!

I'd look more at the "positive effect" of green tea, rather than at the diet
sodas companies lying. This being said, diet sodas while being weight loss
friendly, aren't all that healthy.. so there!

Some people loose very well while drinking diet sodas.. but I'm much more
about getting healthy than about loosing weight so I don't drink them.

It might just be that your body just suddently decided to cooperate.. who
knows.. ;o)

In any case, you did good !

--
Will~

"... so that's how liberty ends, in a round of applause."

Queen Amidala, The revenge of the Syth.


"Doug Lerner" wrote in message
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Day 48 Report

The scale ticked down yet again today.

At the beginning of the week I switched from Diet Coke as my main
beverage to plain, unsweetened green tea. This is after seeing no weight
loss one week and just 0.5 kg the week after that.

This week I've lost 1.5 kg so far and the week isn't quite over yet. The
only thing I changed is what I'm drinking.

I am really beginning to suspect that Diet Coke adversely affects diets
in a way that has more impact than mere temporary fluid retention. Could
the listed calories be untrue? If it was just water retention I would
have suddenly dropped over a couple of days and then been flat again.
But instead I seem to be proceeding at a good pace all week long.

Anyway, the total loss so far this week is 1.5 kg = 3.3 lb. This is a
total loss, since starting, of 9.0 kg = 19.8 lb. Almost 20 lb!

doug

Day 48
kg: 126.5 / 117.5 / 69?
lb: 278.3 / 258.5

Brenda Hammond wrote:



Congratulations on the wonderful loss this week. Keep up the good work.



doug

Thanks, Brenda! (And others who posted too!)

doug

Willow wrote:

Congrats !!!!

I'd look more at the "positive effect" of green tea, rather than at the diet
sodas companies lying. This being said, diet sodas while being weight loss
friendly, aren't all that healthy.. so there!

Everybody seems to be saying the same thing here. I can't think of a
good way of testing one way or the other. Though I guess we can assume
*somebody* would hve noticed by now if the diet soda companies were all
lying. :)

doug

Doug Lerner wrote:

This week I've lost 1.5 kg so far and the week isn't quite over yet. The
only thing I changed is what I'm drinking.

I am really beginning to suspect that Diet Coke adversely affects diets
in a way that has more impact than mere temporary fluid retention. Could
the listed calories be untrue?

Diet Coke has aspartame. Some have problems with aspartame
some don't. When my wife has any aspartame at all not diet
works for her; it blocks her loss somehow. I don't get
that effect.

there is some research that would accuse artificial sweeteners of impairing
weight loss, Lee
Doug Lerner wrote in message
...
Day 48 Report

The scale ticked down yet again today.

At the beginning of the week I switched from Diet Coke as my main
beverage to plain, unsweetened green tea. This is after seeing no weight
loss one week and just 0.5 kg the week after that.

This week I've lost 1.5 kg so far and the week isn't quite over yet. The
only thing I changed is what I'm drinking.

I am really beginning to suspect that Diet Coke adversely affects diets
in a way that has more impact than mere temporary fluid retention. Could
the listed calories be untrue? If it was just water retention I would
have suddenly dropped over a couple of days and then been flat again.
But instead I seem to be proceeding at a good pace all week long.

Anyway, the total loss so far this week is 1.5 kg = 3.3 lb. This is a
total loss, since starting, of 9.0 kg = 19.8 lb. Almost 20 lb!

doug

Day 48
kg: 126.5 / 117.5 / 69?
lb: 278.3 / 258.5

one soda with that stuff in it is a guaranteed trip to the ER for me, Lee
Doug Freyburger wrote in message
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Doug Lerner wrote:

This week I've lost 1.5 kg so far and the week isn't quite over yet. The
only thing I changed is what I'm drinking.

I am really beginning to suspect that Diet Coke adversely affects diets
in a way that has more impact than mere temporary fluid retention. Could
the listed calories be untrue?

Diet Coke has aspartame. Some have problems with aspartame
some don't. When my wife has any aspartame at all not diet
works for her; it blocks her loss somehow. I don't get
that effect.