Update on the Pepsi Max test

What happens if you drink Pepsi Max? Do the artificial sweeteners affect blood sugar or ketone levels? I’ve just tested it.
As you can see I did quite a few blood tests with my blood sugar and ketone meters: 24 tests during almost six hours. So something interesting happened, otherwise there would have been no reason to keep going for so long. But what happened?
My blood sugar started at about 4,5 mmol/L (80 mg/ml) and my ketones started at about 4 mmol/L. What do you think happened after drinking Pepsi Max?
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read of this before and maybe part of why workout stims contain caffeine even if they do not contain carbs.
looking forward to results :)
Sugar as we know leads to the production of insulin which stores fructose as body fat and tells our brain soon after that we are hungry. I can testify to the fact that when I still drank diet sodas it affected my appetite, making me want to eat more frequently. I believe Jason hit the nail on the head with artificial sweeteners being recognized by the body as a sugar therefore spiking blood sugar and lowering or nullifying ketosis.
At a meeting when I didn't have much choice, I unknowingly consumed a glass of sugar-alcohol sweetened grapefruit juice. Even though I didn't like it much, thought it inferior grade, insipid tasting juice, I was driven by some urge to go back and consume MORE! I hate it when it is implied that dieters eat more after an artificially-sweetened soda because they are stupid and have given themselves a free pass. There is something about fooling your body, that makes it want reality to catch up.
Though in this case the bell rings and the dog does not get the food...really think this depends on how often a person really has sweet foods assuming they completely abstained from sweets this could result in minimum impact. Though given your body would react to this even with some sweet carrots might be hard to "train" your brain to ignore this signal :)
a) The artificial sugar caused the response
b) The caffeine caused the response
c) The ultra-palatability of the food caused the response
d) There was a placebo response because he expected (or wanted) something to happen
e) The anticipation (and expectation) of receiving food caused the response (so it was nothing unique to just the soda but any food source)
f) One of the other hundred chemicals in the soda caused the response.
g) One or more of the above interacted together to elicit a response that would not otherwise happen if each individual component was tested individually
With the except of d and e, you could still make the conclusion that drinking a Pepsi Max would elicit some form of response but it's impossible to pinpoint the causal factor. However, it's also impossible to know if the response wasn't caused by d and/or e so it's impossible to interpret the results and find the causal agent and you definitely can't conclusively say the response was caused by the Pepsi Max (let alone blaming some singular component of the Pepsi Max for the response).
get a life
Here you are:
https://www.dietdoctor.com/is-pepsi-max-bad-for-your-weight