Is it the caffeine you're worried about? Well, don't.. It will have no influence on weight loss. The trick though is to drink 8 glasses of water per day. This flushes your system and you loose weight better and faster. This really means WATER - drinking a soda doesn't act the same way.
So water first, diet-soda next - weight loss YUP

i do drink 1or2 diet dr.peppers and sometime i don't drink anything but water w/a burst of lemon .

Ok so I drink one 12 oz of diet coke or pepsi every day. I am a certified personal trainer. It hasn't had any effect on me at all. So as long as you limit yourself you should be good to go. But def drink tons of water. Nothin better than water. Hope this helps. Peace.

many studies have shown that the artifical sweeteners in diet products actually increase weight gain. drink H2O and treat yourself to a small amount of good 'ol sugar-filled soda once in a while.

No, just as bad, just an image of "healthy". If you want to lose wieght, forgot about all the fatty foods and pop, or you WILL stay that way.

(an email i recieved)
(sorry this is so long, but its worth the read)
Please read ALL of this - If Dr.s take patients off of it when women are pregnant what does that tell you?
Subject: Do you drink "DIET"anything?/read this
THIS COULD BE IMPORTANT TO YOU.
In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick She had stomach spasms and she was having a hard time getting around. Walking was a major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed she was in so much pain.
By March 2002, she had undergone several tissue and muscle biopsies and was on 24 various prescription medications. The doctors could not determine what was wrong with her. She was in so much pain, and so sick...she just knew she was dying.
She put her house, bank accounts, life insurance, etc., in her oldest daughters name, and made sure that her younger children were to be taken care of. She also wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to FL (basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd.
On March 19th I called her to ask how her most recent tests went, and she said they didn't find anything on the test, but they believe she had MS.
I recalled an article a friend of mine E-mailed to me and I asked my sister if she drank diet soda? She told me that she did. As a matter of fact she was getting ready to crack one open that moment... I told her not to open it, and to stop drinking the diet soda !!! I E-mailed her the article my friend, a lawyer, had sent.
My sister called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation and told me she had stopped drinking the diet soda AND she could walk!!!! The muscle spasms went away. She said she didn't feel 100% but she sure felt a lot better. She told me she was going to her doctor with this article and would call me when she got home.
Well, she called me, and said her doctor was amazed! He is going to call all of his MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial sweeteners of any kind...
In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the Aspartame in the diet soda... and literally dying a slow and miserable death.
When she got to FL March 22nd, all she had to take was one pill, and that was a pill for the Aspartame poisoning! She is well on her way to a complete recovery . and she is walking!!! No wheelchair!!!
This article saved her life If it says "SUGAR FREE" on the label, DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!!!
I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE on "ASPARTAME," marketed as 'NutraSweet,' 'Equal,' and 'Spoonful.'
In the keynote address by the EPA, it was announced that in the United Statesin 2001 there is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus.
It was difficult to determine exactly what toxin was causing this to be rampant. I stood up and said that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject. I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous: When the temperature of this sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants The methanol toxicity mimics, among other conditions, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus.
Many people were being diagnosed in error. Although multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence.. methanol toxicity is!
Systemic lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers. The victim usually does not know that the Aspartame is the culprit. He or she continues its use irritating the lupus to such a degree that it may become a life-threatening condition. We have seen patients with systemic lupus become asymptotic, once taken off diet sodas.
In cases of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, (when in reality, the disease is methanol toxicity), most of the symptoms disappear. We've seen many cases where vision loss returned and hearing loss improved markedly. This also applies to cases of tinnitus and fibromyalgia.
During a lecture, I said, "If you are using ASPARTAME
(NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc.) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting, pains, numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo, dizziness,headaches, tinnitus, joint pain, unexplainable depression anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss.you probably have ASPARTAME poisoning!"
People were jumping up during the lecture saying, "I have some of these symptoms."
Is it reversible?" Yes! Yes! Yes! STOP drinking diet sodas and be alert for Aspartame on food labels!
Many products are fortified with it!!!
This is a serious problem. Dr. Espart (one of my speakers) remarked that so many people seem to be symptomatic for MS and during his recent visit to a hospice a nurse stated that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence!
Diet soda is NOT a diet product! It is a chemically altered, multiple SODIUM (salt) and ASPARTAME containing product that actually makes you crave carbohydrates. It is far more likely to make you GAIN weight!
These products also contain formaldehyde, which stores in the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. ormaldehyde is an absolute toxin and is used primarily to preserve "tissue specimens."
Many products we use every day contain this chemical but we SHOULD NOT store it IN our body!!!
Dr. H. J. Roberts stated in his lectures that once free of the "diet products" and with no significant increase in exercise his patients lost an average of 19 pounds over a trial period.
So called "behavior modification prescription drugs" (Ritalin and others) are no longer needed. Truth be told, they were never NEEDED in the first place! Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that some physicians, who believed that they had a patient with retinopathy, in fact, had symptoms caused by Aspartame. The Aspartame drives the blood sugar out of control. Thus diabetics may suffer acute memory loss due to the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are NEUROTOXIC when taken without the other amino acids necessary for a good balance. Treating diabetes is all about BALANCE. Especially with diabetics, the Aspartame passes the blood/brain barrier and it then deteriorates the neurons of the brain causing various levels of brain damage, seizures, depression, manic depression, panic attacks, uncontrollable anger and rage.
Consumption of Aspartame causes these same symptoms in non-diabetics, as well.
Documentation and observation also reveal that thousands of children diagnosed with ADD and AHD have had complete turnarounds in their behavior when these chemicals have been removed from their diet.
Most of these children were being "poisoned" on a daily basis with the very foods that were "better for them than sugar."
It is also suspected that the Aspartame in thousands of pallets of diet Coke and diet Pepsi consumed by men and women fighting in the Gulf War, may be partially to blame for the well-known Gulf War Syndrome.
Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause birth defects, i.e., mental retardation, if taken at the time of conception and during early pregnancy. Children are especially at risk for neurological disorders and should NEVER be given artificial sweeteners. There are many different case histories to relate of children suffering grand mal seizures and other neurological disturbances due to the use of NutraSweet.
Unfortunately, it is not always easy to convince people that Aspartame is to blame for their child's illness. Stevia, which is a sweet herb, NOT A MANUFACTURED ADDITIVE, helps in the metabolism of sugar, which would be ideal for diabetics. It has now been approved as a dietary supplement by the FDA. It is known that for many years the FDA outlawed this true sweet food," due to their loyalty to MONSANTO Chemical Company."
Books on this subject are available:
EXCITOTOXINS: THE TASTE THAT KILLS written by Dr. Russell Blayblock (Health Press 1-800-643-2665)
AND:
DEFENSE AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S
DISEASE-written by DR H. J. Roberts, also a diabetic specialist.
These two doctors will soon be posting a position paper with case histories on the deadly effects of Aspartame on the Internet. According to the Conference of the American Collegeof Physicians, "We are talking about a plague of neurological diseases directly caused by the use of this deadly poison."
Herein lies the problem: There were Congressional Hearings when Aspartame was included 100 different products and strong objection was made concerning it's use. Since this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings and still, nothing has been done. The drug and chemical lobbies have very deep pockets. Sadly, MONSANTO'S patent on Aspartame has EXPIRED!!
There are now over 5,000 products on the market that contain this deadly chemical and there will be thousands more introduced.
Everybody wants a "piece of the Aspartame pie." I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of Aspartame, knows how deadly it is. And isn't it ironic that MONSANTO funds, among others, the American Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic Association and the Conference of the AmericanCollegeof Physicians? This has been recently exposed in the New York Times. These cannot criticize any additives or convey their link to MONSANTO because they take money from the food industry and are required to endorse their products.
Senator Howard Metzenbaum wrote and presented a bill that would require label warnings on products containing Aspartame, especially regarding pregnant women, children and infants. The bill would also institute independent studies on the known dangers and the problems existing in the general population regarding seizures, changes in brain chemistry, neurological changes and behavioral symptoms. The bill was killed.
It is known that the powerful drug and chemical lobbies are responsible for this, letting loose the hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting and uninformed public.
Well, you're informed now!!!! YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW!!!!
As for SPLENDA, visit www.factsaboutsplenda.com . splenda causes its own problems, especially joint pain mainly hip pain.
personal experience... my boyfriend has hip displaysia, he had 2 surgeries as a teenager and hasnt had much of a problem since then. he was having health issues before we got together. i sent him the email about the aritificial sweetners and he stopped using them. within days the health issues for the most part went away and his diabetes was under control again. then we started using splenda as a "healthy" alternative. he reached a point a few weeks later where he almost couldnt walk because of his hip hurting. we didnt relate it to what we were eating, we thought it was just his hip acting up. i did internet research on hip pain and found the facts about splenda website. we stopped the splenda and about 2 days later he had no hip pain. now there is no sweetner in this house except sugar and it is only used in very small amounts.
DRINK WATER!!! LOTS AND LOTS OF WONDERFUL WATER!

Nope nope, diet cola actually makes you gain more weight, its true its been in the news a few days back, since they take out carbs, they put other (a lot other) substitutes to fill in the flavor, i'd suggest water and tea, those keep your body healthy and energized.

I don't think 1 or 2 diet sodas a day will hurt you as long as you are mostly drinking water the rest of the time.

The key is moderation, don't go wild every day with diet sodas but if your out to dinner treat yourself to a diet soda. They are particularly handy when out drinking with friends as a mixer with rum/vodka instead of drinking a beer or sugary mixed drink.