I've been getting heartburn some lately, something that has never happened to me before and that scenario about your dad is exactly what I'm afraid of. So. Yeah. Motivation. And the tooth thing....Ooooooo gross!
I switched from regular to diet coke about six months ago in a desperate bid to lose weight. Absolutely nothing happened. Then I read an article about how diet sodas (I call it pop, by the way) and other things with aspartame in them can actually cause weight gain because they fool the body into thinking it is getting sugar and then when the calories don't appear the body goes into starvation mode and sugar cravings go through the roof and the body hoards the calories. I went..."Oh, that explains it. Crap." So now, I'm just getting rid of it completely. Coke (and other soda pop) sucks the calcium out of your bones, rots your teeth, eats away your stomach lining, has excess calories leading to weight gain...and it 'causes gas. Why didn't I give it up sooner? I've known all this forever!!
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Date: 2005-01-10 01:26 pm (UTC)I switched from regular to diet coke about six months ago in a desperate bid to lose weight. Absolutely nothing happened. Then I read an article about how diet sodas (I call it pop, by the way) and other things with aspartame in them can actually cause weight gain because they fool the body into thinking it is getting sugar and then when the calories don't appear the body goes into starvation mode and sugar cravings go through the roof and the body hoards the calories. I went..."Oh, that explains it. Crap." So now, I'm just getting rid of it completely. Coke (and other soda pop) sucks the calcium out of your bones, rots your teeth, eats away your stomach lining, has excess calories leading to weight gain...and it 'causes gas. Why didn't I give it up sooner? I've known all this forever!!