It’s been four days now since my last bit of diet coke. The headaches are gone and, while I can’t say that I feel like a whole new person, I certainly feel some improvement in my overall health. As a bit of background, I used to consume huge amounts of diet coke. 3 to 4 cans at work and 2 to 3 glasses at dinner or lunch. That means around a gallon per day. Essentially, all my liquid intake would be through diet coke and very little through water. Doesn’t sound very healthy does it?
I drank diet coke because I kept telling myself that it was the least of all evils. It allowed me to get some sweet like flavors without any calories. However, my experimentation with the 4 hour body diet showed me that drinking soda, even diet soda, led straight into a carb binge. Apparently, my taste buds really can’t tell artificial from natural sweetener. All they knew was “SUGAR!!! MORE!!!” and after drinking even one diet coke I was much more likely to binge on candy, sweets or more diet coke. So my “I’ll stay away from the candy and just drink one diet coke instead” would turn into “three diet cokes, a few candy bars and a piece of cake!” [Read more...]
