he has tried to quite smoking and the dew habit by themselves without success and just told me he needed to go whole hog this time. since he never exercised regularly before and works 12 hour night shifts, this was nothing short of miraculous to me. my Jon (no kidding) quit his 2liters of regular mountain dew a day habit at the same time as quitting smoking (he is 32, and has smoked since he was 14)and generally god-awfully poor diet while simultaneously adding in two sessions of exercise a day. My husband just did the same thing! i'm so proud of him, i'm sure i know how you must feel. As far as I’m concerned it is poison and I’m so glad John let it go! I hope his results are as good as mine were, it’s really easy to put the stuff down when you realize what it is doing to you. I’ve had all kinds of nay-sayers tell me aspartame is safe, FDA, blah, blah, blah, but my experience tells me otherwise. Within one week – most of the symptoms were cleared. I decided to prove her wrong and give up the soda, what could I possibly have to lose? It only took about 12 hours for me to get through the “withdrawls” and two days to shake the habit. I, of course, dismissed her because I know everything. I went back to my regular doctor and she suggested dropping the caffeine. They kept telling me that I was healthy, which I was glad to hear, but didn’t believe. I saw all kinds of doctors and had some really really scary tests at the neurologist. Over the next month or two I started to lose words and stutter, couldn’t stand for long periods of time, and begin having trouble using my hands. After the cold went away, the twitching and cramping stayed. During those days, I started twitching and would get god awful cramps in my legs. I got a cold bug and was nasty sick for a few days. No articles for you, just personal experience. Even better.he won't be prone to Mountain Dew mouth! Reply Delete So bully for John for giving up that stuff! It's a hard thing to do, but he'll feel better (once he is done feeling worse). Pepper.ĭid you know that drinking one soda a day for an entire year can cause you to put on as much as 15 pounds? It gives me the sweet taste that soda did, and helps to calm my cravings for a sweet, sweet can of Dr. The best part about MiO is that there isn't any aspartame in it! I can drink as much as I want and I don't feel awful. One good squirt into a 20 oz water bottle gives you 20 oz of heaven! I'm particularly fond of the lemonade and peach tea flavors. What has really endeared water to me is a product called MiO. I've recently given up all soda, and instead have one or two cups of coffee a day (before noon, never after), I drink tons of water and occasionally juice. I've been off the diet soda for 11 years now, and if I even get one good swallow of a drink with aspartame, the headaches, nausea, and muscle cramps put me out of commission for 2 or 3 days. I did some research and talked with some family members, came to the conclusion that aspartame is bad for you, yo. What I realized once I gave up the diet soda was that it was what was causing me to have horrible headaches, bad memory, muscle pains, and general poo-feeling. I went through the same withdrawl that John did. Then I got all financially broke and had to give it up. For probably 10 years, I had at least 6 cans of a diet soda a day. Weeks? Months? Longer? Any brain doctors out there care to weigh in? There's a lot of controversy and debate over just how bad these chemicals are for you, of course, but I think John at least is convinced to stay off soda for good.Īlso, John's read that any memory problems *should* reverse themselves once you stop drinking the soda, since your brain will flush out the neurotoxin on its own, but I'm curious if any of you know how long that process should take. I also want to let John's fellow 'Dew addicts out there know about these memory concerns, and see if any of you have had similar symptoms. I'm so proud of John, and one of the reasons I'm posting this is just to brag on him a little. He found a lemonade mix that uses Stevia for a sweetener, too, but mostly? Just plain ol' water. After over ten years of drinking almost nothing but soda, though, that's a huge leap for John - and yet somehow he's managing it. I've been off caffeine and soda for nearly five years now due to my anxiety and adrenal issues, so fortunately I'm already used to drinking almost nothing but water.
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