I have several situations where sodas & diet sodas interfere in the weight loss and health in clients who refuse or can't give it up.  I am going to share with you a few extreme true stories.  I will be using made up names to keep clients privacy.

 

I will begin with Sally. 

Sally came to me to lose weight and get her body healthy, the most popular client request.  She was 60 pounds over a healthy weight for her body size. She was also on a few prescription medications.  

 

Sally was started to feel a little better but not any where near where she should be. 

 

As we worked together she finally told me that she drank 12 cans of diet soda a day and so does her husband.  She said she has been doing it for many years.  Sally was only in her early 40's.  Her and her husband decided it is time to give the soda up.  They did.  She went a few weeks without it and she said she was starting to feel better.  She was appearing to begin her progress to her health goals.  Then she started having to leave work outs because she did not feel good.  She could not walk up the stairs without giving up half way because she felt weak.  This was all to an extreme. 

 

I was very concerned for Sally.  She tried so hard to push through whatever she was feeling and still come to exercise even if she only stayed 20 minutes. 

 

I told her she needs to see her doctor.  I told her maybe it is a possibility that you drank so much diet soda that your prescription medications  were based on her body being in toxic mode and they needed to be adjusted.  She saw her doctor and this was the answer.

 

She had to take a break from exercising until they could get her balance back inside her body. 

 This took almost 6 months.   It was like a drug addict detoxing of their drug.

 

Betty was 40ish years old with fibromyalgia.  She also, drank diet soda all day long.  I never got the actual number of cans a day from her.  She was always having pain and set backs in her condition.  I spoke to her often about her foods and drinks she puts in her body.  (There's a whole list of no-no's with fibro patients/clients-another post for another day.)

 

Diet soda is one of the worst things for this condition. (there is a list.)

She stopped the couple of food items she was eating as well, as stopped all diet sodas.

She went symptom free.  No bad days.. All good days. She did this for 3 months. 

Then she started drinking her diet sodas again and ALL her symptoms and frequencies of them came back.  I don't see her any more, this was several years ago. But the last time I saw here she was still drinking the diet sodas and complaining about her pain.

Even though she now knows for a fact what to do to stop it.  She won't do it for her self.

 

 

 

I will call him Mr. Pop, because he was filled with soda pop.  Yes, I wrote 24 cans of diets soda a day. 24 cans in a week is bad, but in a day. Wow. I was shocked when I was told this.

He was 38 years old and weighed over 300 pounds.  He was grumpy often and got frequent headaches. 

 He stopped cold turkey on his sodas and did great.

He lost weight. 

 He was not grumpy. 

 He had no more headaches.   

 

He did this for only 2 months, and he went back to his sodas. 

Him and his wife moved away. I don't know the rest of his story. I hope it turned for the better. 

 His wife loves him very much and she want's him to be around for a long time. 

 

 

 

Growing up my dad and step dad both told me if my car does not start to look at the battery and if it was all corroded where the cables attach to the battery most likely cleaning this will fix the problem.

I was working at a Pediatrics office years ago and the lab tech's car would not start. She drove an old Volvo.  She drank a diet soda with her lunch everyday at work. 

So of course I said go get your soda and let's try this.

She popped open the hood of her car. I took her diet Pepsi, poured it over her corroded car battery. She walked over and the car started.  Yep, just like that.  From that point on I saw sodas and diet sodas as poison for the body. 

 

My cousin is a cardiologist. (A heart doctor)  He told me he has done surgeries on people who drink several cans of sodas a day and they are decayed inside.  UG.....Yek.

 

Everyone of my clients who were obese drank at least 3 or more diet sodas a day.

 

When a body has to spend extra energy trying to break down man made chemicals it distracts the body from breaking down cancer, tumors and other things. 

The human body was made to heal and try to reject and break down things that are  not good for it.

 

You can clean the oil stains off your driveway with coke.

If you take a penny and put it in a cup of coke, it cleans it.

Coke has been used to clean toilets.

If you take a tooth and put it in a cup of soda, it rots. You can watch it.

 

I found this a while back.  I don't know how real all the facts are, but I would know there is some truth behind this.  Aspartame is in many diet sodas.

 

 

I have people tell me, but it has sweet and low or equal in it.

 

My thoughts are still this.

1.  Man made chemicals are harder on the body to process.

2.  The studies warning us are there for the health benefit for everyone.

3.  If you don't feel well and you use these things, stop.

4. There are too many natural sweetener options you can choose from that don't

 have negative side effects.

5. The Knowledge is out there all over.  Now it only what you choose to do for your self.

 

Be good to you!