akh78749
05-30-2006, 11:36 AM
Wow. I have had one hell of a morning. I have been raw for almost a month now. I have been detoxing a great deal. I have been really good with only a few minor slip ups since I started. Then this morning I did something REALLY stupid. I was dragging pretty badly this morning. Before I became raw, my morning ritual was to have a diet coke on the way to work. I thought this might pick me up for work. Boy, was I wrong.
I downed the diet coke pretty quickly on my way to work. When I got here, on the way up the stairs (3 flights) I felt extremely heavy and faint. Regardless, I went into the office and did a few things. I started to feel really queasy and foggy and a little dizzy even. Next thing you know I am in the bathroom lying on the floor with my hands tingling and my feet tingling terribly. It was almost like I was being shocked, my hands and feet were trembling so badly. This has never happened to me before. I started to panic. I kept trying to tell myself that it was some type of detox reaction, and not to worry, but I was scared. I took some deep breaths and calmed myself down. Long story short, I now know it was the diet coke that did it to me. That stuff is pure evil. After I told my boyfriend what happened, he sent this link to me. It is a list of articles written by doctors about the affects of aspartme.
http://www.321recipes.com/aspartame.html
I will shoot myself before I drink another diet coke. I feel like my body is so clean right now from the raw diet, the colon cleanse, etc..... I have to wonder if being clean isn't some sort of curse. Now my body is ultra-sensitive to the poisons out there. It's a scary thought. I have to wonder if I am not making myself too vulnerable.
I downed the diet coke pretty quickly on my way to work. When I got here, on the way up the stairs (3 flights) I felt extremely heavy and faint. Regardless, I went into the office and did a few things. I started to feel really queasy and foggy and a little dizzy even. Next thing you know I am in the bathroom lying on the floor with my hands tingling and my feet tingling terribly. It was almost like I was being shocked, my hands and feet were trembling so badly. This has never happened to me before. I started to panic. I kept trying to tell myself that it was some type of detox reaction, and not to worry, but I was scared. I took some deep breaths and calmed myself down. Long story short, I now know it was the diet coke that did it to me. That stuff is pure evil. After I told my boyfriend what happened, he sent this link to me. It is a list of articles written by doctors about the affects of aspartme.
http://www.321recipes.com/aspartame.html
I will shoot myself before I drink another diet coke. I feel like my body is so clean right now from the raw diet, the colon cleanse, etc..... I have to wonder if being clean isn't some sort of curse. Now my body is ultra-sensitive to the poisons out there. It's a scary thought. I have to wonder if I am not making myself too vulnerable.