How bad is soda?

[cyrex]

I was just crunching some numbers out of curiousity and came up with some interesting informatiion. Back when I first lost a tremendous amount of weight, there was one thing that I changed in my diet and one thing only. I quit drinking soda. This was when I was in 7th grade . I weight nearly 220 lbs and between the start of the wrestling season to our first wrestling meet, I dropped down to 162 lbs without changing my diet at all except for completely removing soda from my life.
I had been drinking nearly 10-20 cans per day! I was allergic to milk and water was never good unless it was cold and that was a pain because we didn't have an icemaker.
Two things changed that year, we remodelled our kitchen and got a refridgerator with a water faucet and icemaker and my wrestling coaches told us all to stop drinking soda and eat more. Needless to say, the wrestling team I was on for 4 years from 7th grade to my Junior year in high school was undefeated.

So today I was thinking, how much can drinking ONLY water impact someones calorie intake and fat loss?

Assumptions:

• Diet soda taste nasty
• Subject drinking soda is maintaining their weight
• There is no other impact from decrease in sodium, acids, etc
• Only cans are consumed and no soda at restaraunts, Big Gulps, etc
• Food consumption does not change
• ~150 Cal/can
• ~3500 Cal = 1lb bodyfat

so here we go:

1 Can/day = 1050 cal deficit/week so .3 lb fat lost, 1.3 lbs/month and 15.6 lbs/year

So for all of the people who drink 1 can of soda every morning at work, cut that out and you could lose 15 lbs over the year in the perfect world


5 cans/day = 5250 Cal/week so 1.5 lbs of fat per week, 6.5 lbs/month and 78 lbs over the year (again in the perfectly controlled world)

12 cans/day = 12600 Cal/week so 3.6 lbs of fat/week, 15.6 lbs/month and 187 lbs over the year (for the people that will be buried in piano crates.
(this is where I was. Of course I began to eat a LOT more and thus counteracted the extreme calorie deficit and still lost a LOT of fat fast.


Conversly, if any of you all want to get on Oprah for a complementary gastrointestinal bypass surgery from Harpo Co. just drink 20 cans of soda/day and you will gain 26 lbs in a month, and if you keep it up the whole year, you could be 312lbs heavier assuming you don't go into heart failure after that first month or your stomach ulcers are still in check.

 

[JKurz1]

Ditch the sugar laden junk.....opt for water or diet only.............it reallly isnt that much of a science.......

 

[cyrex]

Hehe yea. I know but I felt like crunching some number just to see and share it with everyone else. Last time I had any beverage other than water was probably... November? I had opened a diet cola at work, took a drink and immediately vomitted. The aspartame had furmented into formaldehyde and there was a nasty precipitate in it as well. So from now on I cringe at even the site of diet cola and regular cola is just too similar to be able to get past the memory to drink it even if I wanted to.

 

[Griz1]

Would you sit and eat a bowl of raw sugar?

No?

Then why would you drink soda?

 

[eat big]

haha its pretty bad even though cutler has one after his workout

 

[camshaft]

diet sundrop is good.

 

[JKurz1]

I know a few pros who drink 2 cans of soda a day during their bulking stage....actually make it a point......Tom Prince for example has a can of sprite in his 2nd meal and in his last.......funny thing is I had a 1/4 of reg. soda today (lipton ice team)....coulda SWORE it daid diet till I looked again and it had 33g of sugar........luckily I caught myself, but damn it's been years...........

 

[Rebelde]

and what about arizona tea is also bad??

 

[cmdubs]

I've been drinking diet for so long the regular stuff tastes nasty to me now.

 

[cyrex]

I just stumbled upon this post again. I went from drinking regular soda to diet, to no soda. It was very easy. I happened upon a can of diet coke that had transformed into formaldehyde. I took one sip and noticed it seemed kind of flat. I took another big drink and swalled some chunks (it makes me gag to think about it). I was sick for 3 days and will never again touch diet soda. Needless to say, I haven't touched diet soda since.