bigchiefbc wrote:the_carl wrote:Come on people, just eat less of the things that taste good instead of making the good things taste mediocre to horrible.
I'm sorry you bought the wrong yogurt.
But diet items are really really helpful to people who have bad habits and have trouble dieting. If it weren't for diet food items, my diet wouldn't have gotten off the ground. Yes, I have now learned to control portion size. But at the beginning of a diet, just switching from Coke to Coke Zero can make you lose like 10 pounds. It's a great momentum thing and gets you motivated to keep the diet going.
I've heard arguments/seen random study summaries that claim that artificial sweeteners are actually bad in the long run because then your body is like "oh hey sweet things don't have any calories I should have more because there are no consequences" and you end up eating more. Whether or not this actually true, I don't know.
I know losing weight isn't quite as easy as "just eat less and exercise more," didn't mean to come across as condescending or anything. I just really, really hate the taste of aspartame.







