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I never drink soda. unfortunately I drink loads of coffee and alcohol (mostly beer).

I will say that I lost weight when I quit the soda. I'm not fat, but an average size, and I lost probly about 15 lbs fairly quickly, and I wasn't even trying! I've read in magazines and the newspaper that "researchers" have supposedly found some serious links between diet soda and obesity. something about your body stops correlating sweet stuff with calories. I think it has something to do with the fact that most people who drink diet soda are probly making a faint attempt at losing weight, so they are probly fatasses anyway.