Is diet soda making you fat? It very well may be. This was the subject of the most recent Great Fat Loss Debate with Scott Colby (that’s me) and Scott Tousignant. We had 3 special guests on the line as well to give their opinion - Kevin Gianni, Kyle Battis and Rob Poulos.

How can diet soda (or pop as some people like to say) make you fat? Doesn’t it have no sugar and no calories? Well yes, yes it does. But let’s take a closer look. First I want to reveal to you the nasty ingredients of diet coke, one of the most popular diet drinks out there. These are listed in order of greatest to least amount…

Carbonated Water
Caramel Color
Aspartame
Phosphoric Acid
Potassium Benzoate (to protect taste)
Natural Flavors
Citric Acid
Caffeine

Tastey! As you can see, there is nothing healthy about diet soda at all. They contain no nutrients that your body needs. In fact, it’s poison to your body. There are actual research studies that show that diet soda drinkers gain more weight than regular soda drinkers. One theory is that the artificial sweeteners in diet soda trigger a hormone in your body that causes you to store more fat and have more cravings for sugar.

Another theory is that diet soda drinkers may adopt the mindset that since they are drinking diet soda, this gives permission to consume more calories in the foods that they eat.

In any event, diet soda is not good to put into your body if you want as healthy a life as possible. We had a lot of great opinions in our podcast, “Is Diet Soda Making You Fat.” We even gave suggestions on how to stop drinking diet soda if you’re addicted to it.

Please listen to the audio below. And don’t forget to share your opinions. Do you agree with us and the research? Is diet soda making us fat? Did you used to be addicted to diet soda and now you’re not? Share your opinions and stories below in the Comments section.

Have a wonderful day.

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I recently did an interview with Jason Ferruggia, who is the author of Muscle Gaining Secrets. If you are interested in gaining muscle, Jason is a great guy to learn from. He is one of the world’s top experts in how to gain muscle, and has written articles in various health and fitness magazines. Here are some questions Jason answered on our call…

What is the fastest way to build muscle?

If my goal is to build muscle, how much cardio should I be doing?

What if I want to lose fat and build muscle, can I do that simultaneously? How would my training change if I had both of those
as goals?

How do I figure out how many calories to eat? What if I can’t eat that many, do you recommend a weight gainer to get my required # of calories?

What are some things women should be doing to get the physique they are looking for?

Jason ended the call with a really special offer for his best selling book, Muscle Gaining Secrets, which expires Thursday, February 21 at midnight Eastern. Take a peek at Muscle Gaining Secrets now.

Jason has added 7 limited time offer bonuses including:

Muscle Gaining Secrets Audio Book
Maximum Mass 2 - Advanced Workout Program
The Complete Abdominal Exercise Index
Freak Strength
Advance Kettlebell Training
Physically Incorrect
Hybrid Training

I hope you enjoy the interview. You can listen to it below or download it to your computer or iPod and listen to it anytime.

Warmly,

Scott

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Usually when I do interval training, I”ll either use a treadmill in my apartment gym or I will find a track or a field and run sprints. By the way, when I refer to interval training, I’m referring to alternating short periods of intense exercise with longer periods of moderate exercise. An example is running fast for one minute, followed by walking for two minutes. Interval training is a great way to get more fit, and burn belly fat. Interval training - performed on a regular basis - will increase your cardiovascuilar fitness. It will also give you an afterburn effect, boosting your metabolism for several hours after you complete the workout, so you can burn calories all day long - a must if you want a flat stomach and six-pack abs.

Normally when I do interval training on a treadmill, I’ll do a proper warm up, then I’ll run at 11 miles per hour for a minute, which is the fastest our treadmills will go. I’ll then walk at about 3.6 mph for as long as it takes me to recover - usually between a minute and a minute and a half. Well yesterday, after I ran for a minute at 11 miles per hour, I wanted to increase the metabolic effect and get some strengthening in, so I got off the treadmill and performed 20 kettlebell swings and 20 kettlebell high pulls. Whew! My heart rate was high after this. I then got back on the treadmill and walked for about a minute to a minute and a half at 3.6 miles per hour. I performed 3 rounds. My total workout was about 15 minutes, and I really felt it. Remember, everyone is different, so you need to find what speed works for you on the treadmill.

So the workout was:

Warm up
Run at 11 mph for 1 minute
Kettlebell swings x 20
Kettlebell high pulls x 20
Walk at 3.6 mph for 1 to 1 1/2 minutes
Perform 3 rounds.

Again, if you are looking to burn belly fat, interval training is one of the best ways to do this. Once you get good at interval training, mixing it up like I did should enhance your results. Interval training was vital for my abs transformation and in getting them as lean as possible and I perform it about 3 days per week. But it’s always very quick - about 20 minutes or less.

What other ways can you mix up your interval training? I would love to hear what has worked for you.

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You may not know it, but besides doing teleseminars and videos, and posting on this blog, I also run a womens fitness bootcamp in Dallas, Texas. We always have a great group of women come out and get in a fun, intense workout. I have a blast teaching the class. The name of the bootcamp is called Her Strength.

Womens fitness is an important topic and more specifically I wanted to talk a little bit about strength training for women. I know there are still a lot of women that walk as their only means of exercise. While this is great that you are out there and moving, it’s not the best way to burn body fat and lose weight. One of the best things a woman (or a man) can do is to add strength training to your workouts. Strength training will help you build nice, sexy lean muscle, and boost your metabolism allowing you to burn fat calories all day long. You will feel strong, look great and be more confident. And you will decrease your risk of a number of ailments and diseases, osteoporosis being one of them.

So don’t forget, if you are not already doing so, you should be doing some sort of strength training as part of your workouts.

Check out some highlights of our womens fitness bootcamp in the video below. Some of the circuits we do in camp come from The Four Minute Workout DVDs. Hopefully the video will inspire you to get off your butt and just do it! : )

Oh and if you are in the Dallas area, check out our Her Strength Fitness Camp. These are a great group women and I am proud of the commitment that each one of them has shown in class.

Scott

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