# Fizzy Drinks Make you Hungry!!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fizzy-drinks-make-you-hungry/249893>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 11, 2004, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fizzy-drinks-make-you-hungry/249893 "2004-06-11T22:56:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![PretzelFlip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecae2f/32.png) [@PretzelFlip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PretzelFlip)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fizzy-drinks-make-you-hungry/249893/1 "2004-06-11T22:56:49Z")

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Has anyone else suffered from my strange complaint? Whenever I consume a carbonated beverage, be it alcoholic or not, I experience initial fullness but as the bubbles ‘pop’, I start to feel hungry as my ‘stretched’ stomach relaxes. Indeed, if I am ever forced to eat a meal when not actually ‘in the mood’ as it were, a casual fizzy drink about 30 mins before always gets my appetite stoked and even makes me feel positively hungry! Incidentally, I have recently lost 35lbs by cutting out my mid morning and mid afternoon diet pepsi which always triggered my urge to snack! (Disclaimer: weight loss aided by thrice weekly BodyPump!, but nevertheless…I snack less when I don’t do fizz!)

Am I alone?

(btw, this is my 1st EVER post…Yay!)