I am thinking I might need to go drinking diet soda regularly for awhile and see if that
does make an impact in preventing weight gain from my normal diet/food routine.

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I am thinking I might need to go drinking diet soda regularly for awhile and see if that
does make an impact in preventing weight gain from my normal diet/food routine.

I've read about research that says that, since it's sweet, the body expects calories, and this winds up making people hungrier.

But consuming fewer calories is (generally) hard, where super-tasty and high-calorie things are easily available.

That said, on this particular thing, I wound up drinking less soda pop by first drinking Dry soda pop (so, a brand by the name of "Dry"), where they intentionally included less sugar without introducing other sweeteners.

Then eventually moved to flavored sparkling water, then to just sparkling water, and now that scratches whatever itch soda pop did.

And now I can drink the occasional soda pop, and while it'll taste extra sweet, I don't feel quite so addicted to it.

Not that that helps with caffeine, if that's what you're consuming.

Regardless, good luck.

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Adept wrote to Matthew Munson <=-

I am thinking I might need to go drinking diet soda regularly for awhile and see if that
does make an impact in preventing weight gain from my normal diet/food routine.

I've read about research that says that, since it's sweet, the body expects calories, and this winds up making people hungrier.

I've felt that.

In addition, artificial sweeteners are so sweet that your palate
"recalibrates" to that as "sweet", and foods/flavors that are naturally
sweet no longer register as such.

As an experiment, I tried the potato diet for 2 weeks. Eat nothing but
potatoes - baked, boiled, but not fried. limit spices for the first
week. Eat when you're hungry, avoiding meal times if you're not hungry
and habitual eating. Drink water and unsweetened coffee.

I dropped 10 pounds, but more importantly, I reset my habitual eating
clock. "It's 10 o'clock, time for coffee and a pastry", "It's noon, I'd
better go to lunch because it's lunchtime and I like eating", and so on.

I found myself eating less because I ate when I was hungry instead of
eating out of habit.

Secondly, it reset my sugar palette. Food tasted sweet again after 2
weeks without artificial sweeteners. Corn tasted different. Blueberries
seemed like candy.

It can be a worthwhile experiment.

But consuming fewer calories is (generally) hard, where super-tasty and high-calorie things are easily available.

That said, on this particular thing, I wound up drinking less soda pop
by first drinking Dry soda pop (so, a brand by the name of "Dry"),
where they intentionally included less sugar without introducing other sweeteners.

Then eventually moved to flavored sparkling water, then to just
sparkling water, and now that scratches whatever itch soda pop did.

And now I can drink the occasional soda pop, and while it'll taste
extra sweet, I don't feel quite so addicted to it.

Not that that helps with caffeine, if that's what you're consuming.

Regardless, good luck.

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Matthew Munson wrote to All <=-

I am thinking I might need to go drinking diet soda regularly for
awhile and see if that does make an impact in preventing weight gain
from my normal diet/food routine.

Stop drinking soda for 3 weeks. It'll be hard at first. You'll need
caffeine. Make iced tea with lemon. If you're drinking sugared soda,
stop drinking it and change nothing else, you'll lose weight. And, you
may feel better overall.

I was hooked on Diet Coke for years. I hated how it would trigger my
blood sugar - have a diet coke with lunch and 45-60 minute later, I'd
get a sweet tooth and get something from a vending machine at work.

Between that, the supply chain issues around here (I'd see tons of
cherry coke, vanilla coke, caffeine free diet coke, regular coke and a
gap where the diet coke used to be) and the cost (Really? $11.99 for a
12-pack?) I gave it diet coke a while ago. I'll have a fountain soda if
I get fast food, which is now once a quarter instead of 2-3 times a
week.







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I am thinking I might need to go drinking diet soda regularly for awhile and see if that
does make an impact in preventing weight gain from my normal diet/food routine.

If you mean go off of drinking diet soda, that'd probably be a good idea. Replace it with water or tea.

I had a friend that drank diet soda for years. Didn't drink enough water. Got fatty liver disease. One of the things they told her to do was to stop drinking diet soda.


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Re: Re: diet soda
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Matthew Munson on Tue Sep 01 2026 07:27 am

I was hooked on Diet Coke for years. I hated how it would trigger my blood sugar - have a diet coke with lunch and 45-60 minute later, I'd get a sweet tooth and get something from a vending machine at work.

I've heard diet sodas, despite being sugar-free, can sometimes trigger weight gain in people due to that.

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Re: Re: diet soda
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Adept on Tue Sep 01 2026 07:27 am

As an experiment, I tried the potato diet for 2 weeks. Eat nothing but potatoes - baked, boiled, but not fried. limit spices for the first week. Eat when you're hungry, avoiding meal times if you're not hungry and habitual eating. Drink water and unsweetened coffee.

I dropped 10 pounds, but more importantly, I reset my habitual eating clock. "It's 10 o'clock, time for coffee and a pastry", "It's noon, I'd better go to lunch because it's lunchtime and I like eating", and so on.

I found myself eating less because I ate when I was hungry instead of eating out of habit.

Interesting.. I still tend to have regular (or semi-regular) meal times, but I find that I usually am actually hungry around those times. Also, at least at work, I feel like it's generally best to take lunch around noon or so because a lot of other people do too; if I don't eat my lunch then, then I might find I might not get a chance to eat lunch due to my afternoon being busy doing work with co-workers, meetings, & such. But honestly though, that has been somewhat rare.

Also, for me, I might avoid eating potatoes exclusively, as I need to be careful about carbs.

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Also, for me, I might avoid eating potatoes exclusively, as I need to be careful about carbs.

I wonder if I only ate potatoes, that it would somehow make me like potato-based dishes more, eventually.

It'd probably do the opposite, as I already don't understand why people like potatoes as much as they do. And associating non-flavored / non-fattened potatoes would probably make the anti-preference worse.

...not that I'd find it remotely easy to be careful about carbs.

At this point, I'm mostly happy that I haven't bought candy in a while, and have largely sworn it off, finding it easier to not eat any than to find some midpoint between there and eating way too much.

(though I still get sweet things, and it would be nice to cut down on that, too. But at least the remaining sweet things don't feel quite as addictive.)

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** On Wednesday 02.09.26 - 17:25, Adept wrote to Nightfox:

I wonder if I only ate potatoes, that it would somehow make me like potato-based dishes more, eventually.

It'd probably do the opposite, as I already don't understand why people like potatoes as much as they do. And associating non-flavored / non-fattened potatoes would probably make the anti-preference worse.

Instead of white potatoes.. try sweet potatoes. I usually just cut off a 1.5 to 2in [4-5 cm] disc, microwave that until evenly cooked, and just have that with butter and maybe some roasted garlic and pepper spices. Sweet potatoes have great flavor on their own, and are a satisfying "filler" without encouraging going back for more.


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Re: Re: diet soda
By: Adept to Nightfox on Wed Sep 02 2026 05:25 pm

It'd probably do the opposite, as I already don't understand why people like potatoes as much as they do. And associating non-flavored / non-fattened potatoes would probably make the anti-preference worse.

I do like potatoes. I think it's the adaptability in what you can do with them. They can be baked, sliced & fried, mashed, etc., and seasoned in many different ways. Some of my favorite ways to eat potatoes are baked (with salt, butter, and sour cream), as well-seasoned French fries or potato wedges, hash browns, and diced/sliced, seasoned, and fried.

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