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Yoinked from gymrats: Diet soda makes you fat!?
The article is a good quick read - not conclusive, but gives an interesting idea: fooling your body only works in the short term; if your body learns to associate sweet taste with no sugar, you fail to have a normal increased metabolism response to real sugar. So when you drink the diet soda, no problem, but then you actually gain more weight when you drink OJ, cranberry (*cough* white-grape), or mocha (*cough* sugar).
Here baby, have some sugar
Sugar? I want sugar, but how do I know this is sugar? Last time you said sugar I didn't get no nuffin. You was up there all tastin and I was down here going "What?" I got all the place all warm and everything ready for the sugar, kept pumping out the sugar for everyone else and then...nuthin.
It's sugar baby, just taste that!
Puh-leez, that's the same bullshit you told me last time. I'm not getting nuthin warm, not sending out no energy, not a thing. I only have so much luvin to give, and just telling me sweet things isn't going to get you any more love - I dun learned my lesson.

I. Love. It. True or not, it's a good excuse for me to ditch diet soda and switch to real stuff. This would explain why I'm able to lose weight while eating chocolate (aka the truffle diet). My body knows it is getting sugar, it is getting sugar, and it reacts accordingly. Lies suck, even to yourself.

This means the same old bad news of course - if you want to eat sweets, you have to watch how much OR overcompensate with exercise (if the theory turns out to be true).