...And A Diet Coke

It's not only fat people who do this. Some do this due to the sugar content. My mother has been a manager at Burger King for nearly two decades. She's always talking about the people who order a double-meat whopper, extra cheese, a large fry or onion ring, and a diet soda. Sometimes they're fat, sometimes they're not. Anyone familiar with how carbohydrates are broken down in the blood are fully aware that the body has trouble telling the difference between the sugar you pull from a piece of bread and the sugar you get from your Dr. Pepper. Unless you have some condition in which the body is going to treat them differently, simple carbs are sugar in your body. (Simple being the opposite of complex here, ala whole wheat vs. McD's uberbleached and processed white flour. And tons of white sugar in the recipe to boot.) Others do this to skip over 300 added calories. This probably wouldn't apply to most fat people. If they wanted to watch their caloric intake, they would just opt for the salad, the grilled chicken, or a parfait instead of fries, etc. I think it has a lot to do with misinformation in some cases. In other cases, I think it's just that people are attempting to exercise at least a little self control by avoiding another 300 calories on top of their meal. A diet soda can definitely aid in weight loss. If, for example, these people were on a calorie restrictive diet, where those added calories would put them over their limit, then they could still have the Big Mac and potentially lose weight. But make no mistake: I'm not saying this is what people at fast food restaurants are trying to do. Most probably do believe that it matters and that they're not getting fat if they just skip the corn syrup. But the body is still saying "WOW! Thanks for all this sugar, sugar" every time they much down carb-laden fries, ketchup and bread.

H aha ha I noticed that as well. My ex sister law would sit here in my cafe eat all my candies and cookies and drink diet pepsi all day... Never understood that one..

Many people with health issues related to sugar are either uneducated or unconvinced. Brainwashed by commercials as well. If they wanted to save calories and sugar they would have water, or lowfat milk. Either choice is better than soda or diet soda. There are things in soda that are as bad for you as sugar, but we do not hear that. Certain sodas, the ones that have phosphoric acid, leach calcium out of your bones. Recent studies indicate that using artificial sweeteners can actually contribute to type II diabetes, and also to weight gain, because the sweet taste actually makes your body want more sweet things and more simple carbs.

I am not fat...except between the ears....but many moons ago Grasshopper I would partake in the menu choice to which you refer. My choice of beverage was of the diet variety because I preferred it. No other reason. No kiddology that somehow it balanced out all the fats and gunge in the rest if the meal. I just liked the taste of diet drinks. However, nowadays I drink no fizzy drinks at all and find the mere thought that I might enter the portals of a fast food 'restaurant' quite bizarre. That stuff does things to our insides... Not good things either!

They are cutting back on sugar, and everyone knows sugar is bad for you. Blessings

Why do people even eat at McDonalds in the first place? When I was dieting during vacation , I drank bottled green tea (not Lipton, but the store brand stuff because it has less calories. ) and a little water. For some reason diet coke used to always make me dizzy after drinking it, so I stay away from it as much as possible. Plus the taste of fake sugar has never appealed to me much anyway.

I almost never go to fast food places nor do I drink soda. I also am not overweight. On the very rare occasion that I do go to a fast food place and IF I ordered a soda, it would be a diet one and mainly because I am not one for sugery things. People that are obese well if they are worried about sugar all I can say is the obesity is just as bad for their health as the sugar so I also do not see the point. Maybe they like the taste???

Diet coke tastes better? Well I think so anyway. It still tastes like something you'd use to clean the inside of engines, but better than 'fat' coke which makes my teeth scream in terror.

my fat cousin used to do that and i found out its an aquired taste. he started it on a diet then got used to the taste but didnt stick to the diet. so it seems its a different taste to it. frankly ive tried it and its awful to me

I will never understand this either, order two food two food items that probably have way over a thousand calories and then try to make up for it with a diet coke. Not only is that not going to negate all the crap that you are already eating but it's also going to get the nasty ingredients from the diet coke into your system as well. Anything coming from a fast food restaurant is going to be bad for you but we don't always have to make it worse and get a soda with everything. I don't know why so many people have problems with just drinking plain water. Now we have come out with water enhancers and flavored water when if we were to just drink plain water we wouldn't have to worry about sugar, calories, preservatives, or any of that other junk that our bodily systems have a hard time digesting and processing. It definitely doesn't make sense for overweight people to drink diet coke nor does it make sense for them to continue eating what is slowly killing them. The fact of the matter is that people love their bad food so much that they try to drink diet coke so they can at least say they are trying I guess. Otherwise I really have no reason why someone wouldn't go ahead and order a regular soda when the rest of their food is going to kill them anyways.

I am a diabetic, and diet cherry coke is my soda drink of choice. Yes, it does take getting used to...the taste is 'different', but now, regular coke tastes weird to me. I go to McD's maybe twice a year, and I order a bouble cheeseburger and a small fry that I share with my hubby. And I get a small diet coke. Fountain diet drinks taste different than the bottled ones. They taste more artificial. I've given up or lost a lot of things in my life...my ability to walk very far or stand very long, choices in food, my daughter. There are three things I will keep...potato chips, diet cherry coke, and smokes. That's just the way it is. I'm too old to worry about it.

I don't get that either. But I can only say this for me. Being diabetic and being a lover of Coca Cola, I drink diet coke for that reason. The sugar is not good for me. As for McDonald's hamburgers, the question really is, how can anyone really eat that stuff. If I want a burger I will go somewhere else like maybe Five Guys or a good diner and get a good burger. Or maybe a real fresh cooke horse burger. Nice!!!!

I am not offended to the fact that I am a bit "chubby" hehehe putting fat word in a cuter way, anyway, I don't like diet coke, it is not COKE to me... so I am not guilty of this crime.

This is because a diet coke still tastes like coke. Like there is nothing diet that tastes better than a Big Mac and fries. But trust me, if there were a diet Big Mac and it were really diet, it would sell. Who wouldn't want that same taste and feeling of eating a Big Mac less the calories?