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How many cokes it takes to gain a pound is unimportant. The question is: are you consuming more calories than you are burning each day? If the answer is yes, then you're going to stay the same or gain weight. I used to drink cokes everyday, but I was running 30 miles per week, so I was pretty lean. If you aren't exercising, you don't need to drink any sodas or eat fatty foods.
3,500 calories constitutes one pound of fat. A can of coke (12 oz) has 140. You'd need to drink 25 cans to put on one pound of fat.
Research shows that regular consumption of sweetened beverages is the ONLY singular food type correlated with obesity. That's right: fried food, fast food, cookies, candy, white bread, sweetened cereals etc were not "culprits" to the degree that sugar-laden beverages were.
Speaking from experience though, it's rare that regular soda drinkers are drinking small quantities (8-16 oz per day). Most seem to rarely drink it or otherwise use it as a primary source of fluids. For example, in my childhood/teen years, I was drinking nearly 1,000 calories per day in soda and snapple iced tea. There's a reason why shoppers in their weekly trip load up on three or four cases of soda rather than one bottle. I also suspect that soda is often paired with garbage more often than healthy foods, though I haven't seen research on food/beverage pairings.
It takes one pound of soda to gain a pound. 16 liquid ounces of fluid the approximate viscosity of water weighs a pound. So - one 16-ounce bottle of soda is one pound, that you will be introducing into your body, thus making you weigh one pound more than you weighed a moment before you ingested the liquid.
Miraculously, the same math applies to food. If you eat 1 pound of food, you will weigh 1 pound more, than the moment before you started eating that pound of food.
How Absurd. So then you need to subtract the daily weight of your Poop and Urine.
Trully if you want to find out Don't eat for 5 days and only drink Soda Pop. Keep track of exactly how much you consume by weight and volume, as well, take your starting and ending weight and see what happens....
Sodas are extremely bad for metabolic health. The caloric intake is the least you have to worry about. HFCS is extremely toxic in the body because it is the kind of high inflammatory sugar that is most difficult for the body to digest next to transfats. The body can't digest it completely so it gets stored as very carcinogenic fat cells on your liver. It is full of artificial coloring and other carcinogens. Preservatives used in sodas damages the gut microbiome.
Diet sodas are worse.
Better to just drink carbonated water.
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