3 Reasons to NOT drink Diet Pop

3. It makes you feel entitled to eat more.

My client Beth (the blond lady from my last Instagram video @Siddiqu_ThePT) told me that she had a donut, but she also had a diet pop so that it canceled out.  We have an open, honest, and abusive trainer/trainee relationship.  The truth is, Beth is kinda right.  Counting calories is still the most common method people use to try to lose weight, and it’s the basic principle behind both Weight Watchers and the popular weight-loss app Lose It!

If you’re counting calories, there’s a simple equation: Drinking a regular soda means you have to eat 140 calories less of something else that day or that meal. Drinking a diet soda means you’ve consumed zero calories, so you get a free pass to eat more.  The problem is, the average donut is 200 calories, so that is 60 extra calories that a person has justified eating without realizing it.  And since drinking the diet soda has fooled your body into expecting sugar, it’s changed the way you metabolize those other calories–you may store more of them as fat and use fewer of them as energy–which could leave you hungry and wanting even more food.

With all the current information soda pop and diet soda pop has to, absolutely has to be removed from your current diet.  Now Donuts is another conversation all together (Tiffany C)!


Siddiqu “The Personal Trainer” is a CPT, motivational speaker, author of  How Are You Fat and Saved?! He is also the Co-creator of the largest bootcamp in Chicago The No Excuse Bootcamp and the exercise series “You Would Think I Invented Sweat” for booking information or more fitness tips visit our WEBSITE www.chicagofit4life.com




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