My experience with Aspartame started about 3 years ago. As a cyclist and avid athlete I was looking for a way to keep my weight down during the winter months when I was not riding. I started drinking Diet Dr. Pepper because I saw it as a way to eliminate a lot of calories from my diet, as I liked to drink pop all day. That is when I started to feel exhausted all the time. At the end of the work day I would go home and fall asleep immediately after I got home. I would sleep about 3 hours, wake up and eat then go to bed. The next day I would wake up feeling absolutely exhausted. Like I hadn’t slept at all.
The whole school year went by and I was in a daze. I felt like a zombie and the whole day felt almost like an out of body experience. My training that summer was awful. My performance was poor, I had terrible problems with body aches on my bike, and I continued to be tired all the time. After a year and a half of living like this I read an article about some reported side effects of Aspartame. I quit drinking diet pop and within a week I was feeling a tremendous difference in the way I felt. I have no longer had any problems with fatigue and I happy to say my bike riding is coming back into top form.