Diet Coke, Fat Burning, and Exercise

Diet coke contains sweeteners and caffeine along with flavorings. The sweet taste raises glucose concentration in the blood before the food has a chance to be digested -- taking them from carb depots in liver and muscles. When the sweet taste is real, the real carbohydrates get into the blood shortly. And if they're not? Being fooled, your body reacts rather vindictively: it forces you to want more calories coming with any food during your next meal. Now, what happens when you get your diet coke just before exercise? It can be that instead of waiting for your next meal to compensate the loss of carbohydrates from the carb depots, the body will take them from its fat depots and by doing this, it switches on the process of fat burning (lipolysis). Caffeine helps this process a lot. The tricky part is, you should watch how much you eat during your next meal.