Posted by twinmom on August 8, 2004, at 21:24:04
In reply to PS » twinmom, posted by Racer on August 6, 2004, at 12:32:55
Thank You Racer - And I really hope you feel better soon - I know exactly where you are at and it is truly horrible. kind of a lame saying - but hang in there and Thanks again for your responses they are really appreciated - I'm the worst for not posting at all in my dark spots.
And I think I will start giving the water a try, the diet drinks don't seem to be helping at all, now about 7 years ago when I switched to them from regular sodas - It was a tremndous help, but there is so much research about all the good water can do for you I figure why not? Besides it's easier than trying to excercise right now - baby steps I have to keep telling myself or I will burn out and be right back where I started.Anyway, sorry for the ramble, and thanks again.
Ramona
> Despite what your doctor told you, you might want to dump those diet drinks, too. The latest research I've read theorizes that the diet drinks upset your body's hunger-related hormones, thus upping your weight gain. It's too much for me to get into now, because I'm just not here right now, but the diet drinks interfere with the normal rhythms of your hunger reflexes, keeping you hungry round the clock. If you can get yourself to drinking water instead, you're likely to reset your hunger mechanisms. If you can't make yourself drink plain water, a little lemon juice in it may help. (That's what I used to do, although now I just down the stuff straight.) And you can buy those cute little plastic lemons with lemon juice in them.
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> It's got to do with leptin, I think, which has diurnal surges. "Normal" surges take place in the middle of the night, when you're asleep. In people who drink a lot of diet drinks, and in the overweight, it stays at a pretty steady state throughout the day. Cutting off that particular pathway by avoiding the diet drinks may help more than you think it will.
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> By the way, I'm not going to tell you that it's easy. I drank more of the stuff than I"m willing to admit for about 25 years. It's only in the last few months that I've finally cut way back. And I still drink two or three per day.
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