I was SERIOUSLY ill and doctors didn’t have a clue. They knew it seemed a lot like lupus, MS, fibromyalgia, or a degenerative disease, accompanied by extreme fatigue, memory loss, brain fog, and depression. I am not a person who was ever depressed! Farm woman, for heaven’s sakes, too busy to be depressed, but gradually got really, really bad.
Felt toxic, poisoned, hands tingled and went numb, could not climb up or down stairs except at a pace rivaling my 103 year old grandma (she probably could have beat me on a flat stretch). So after no idea from various docs, I remembered a post a couple of years ago about the dangers of diet soda. I was a diet Pepsi-aholic!!!!! Would have 4 to 6 of them a day!
And gaining weight with it, too. Anyway, after searching the net for articles about diet pop, found I might have just as well gone over to the funeral home and asked them to pour me a big glass of formaldehyde, and then throw in some wood alcohol, and then drank that!!!! (also NutraSweet, another name for Aspartame)
Within a week of quitting completely, I was much better, and now it’s a month later and life is so much better. I didn’t realize how sick I was until I quit, just knew I felt totally awful and couldn’t even remember what it ever felt like to be energetic or healthy.
For a visual metaphor, those of you who know what a tractor pull is like? I was like the tractor when they’ve piled another ton of concrete blocks onto the sledge – slower, slower, stopped. I now tell everyone I know to run far away from it – it’ll kill you.
And to those who think they can’t give it up, like I did (I lived for the stuff; it got me going in the morning, perked up my day, etc.) It is not hard at all once you realize what it has done to you.
Especially dangerous for diabetics.