Does drinking lots of Diet Coke hurt the weight-loss effectiveness of eating less carbs?

There is supposedly a corollary between drinking diet soda and being overweight, although the explanations I've heard for it don't jive for me.  I'd suggest cutting it out for a week and seeing what happens. I've also heard other people suggest cutting out dairy for a week to break a plateau. Congratulations on being so close to your goal.

Jeff Davis I'm only 1/3rd of the way to my goal, I'm looking forward to being where you are.  I haven't had any major stalls or setbacks yet (knock on wood), but I am storing the suggestions of others for future reference. I think the cutting dairy suggestion was all dairy, milk, cream, cheese, butter.   I drink diet root beer as a treat when I have friends over, maybe one can a week.  And I sometimes get a big diet soda at the movies, maybe twice a month.  Best if luck in breaking your stall.

Jeff Davis thanks for the encouragement. I'm on a mini hiatus right now, still following keto food selections, but not counting carbs or calories as I am visiting my sister in Austin. I'm reasonably sure that my calories are well within my goals, but protein is probably high, and carbs maybe high as I'm eating a fair amount of vegetables. But I've been craving vegetables for a long time, so letting my body have some for a little while might be a good idea. Before I started with keto and was used to eating at least a pound of vegetables a day. With keto I've had to cut that back to 4 to 6 oz.  I won't get to see my scale again for another few days, but my clothes feel like they're hanging off of me.  The jeans I bought last week are having to constantly be pulled up, so it seems that all is well. 

Jeff Davis I'm not really off the diet, I'm just off of counting carbs and calories for a bit. Vegetables are all carbs, you can't fit 1lb of vegetables into 15 net carbs. My sister's not much help with the diet because her problem is the opposite of mine, she's five foot eleven and weighs about 100 lbs. Recently she was down to 89lbs. She has a lot of trouble keeping weight on, so she has to eat as many stick to your ribs calories as she can.  She's embarrassed to go out in public because she's so thin, a totally different battle with weight than mine.  We have a deal, I'm going to give her 25 lbs and 4 years and she's going to give me 4 inches of leg. LOL. She's jealous because I can buy pants off the rack and have them fit, and I'm jealous because she's got legs for days.  If only that deal were possible we'd both be happier and healthier.   I'm making grilled chicken and homemade Alfredo sauce for dinner tonight, hers will go on pasta and mine on zucchini spirals.

Hi friends. I read if you’re at a plateau, stalled weight loss, cut crabs to just 10/day until it moves again.  No cal drinks supposedly create a short lived insulin response, taste buds send sugar warning to the brain, which then shoots out a bit of insulin to remove the supposed sugar, when none is detected at the cell receptors, insulin drops again and all is well. Except that insulin put whatever you ate with the soda into fat storage.   Even if it was a small amount of nuts.  Try having chicharones with melted butter as a snack. 

Hey Jeff, sorry about your situation! I know it can be frustrating! I've also done diets like this in the past. I have found that when my weight loss stalls it helps to actually eat normal for a couple of days and then start again. Just don't go crazy on carbs! Maybe just do 50-75 a day, I've read that this confuses your metabolism. Don't know if that part is true but it does help me!! As far as the diet Coke I'm not sure, I drink 1 sometimes 2 diet mountain dews a day and plenty if water!! The key for me has been lots of water!! Hope this helps!! Btw you look great, keep up the hard work!!!