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Vicious Cycle of Diet Drinks
I knew why I had gained weight—I didn't move! It was convenient to try anything to lose weight since I had never been a big fan of exercise. I became part of the diet drink craze. I saw the before and after photos of women and men who used and was so convinced that I decided to buy a year's supply of powdered drink mix. Although the cost of the drink was high, I bought it anyway. I think I was too eager to get rid of the unwanted pounds and willing to try anything. I had to mix the contents of the packets with either juice, skim milk, or water. There was a limited amount of flavors and no matter what I mixed it with it had a chalky, strong, and bitter vitamin flavor. I started drinking this terrible tasting stuff exactly as it said on the package which was three times a day. However I still indulged in eating whatever I wanted and never exercised.
I loved the rapid results and I didn't want go back to my former routine of jogging, bicycling and using weights. The problem was I didn't want to take the weight off slowly through exercise and healthy eating. It took too long.
However that wasn't an excuse for me not to wait for the future payoff—slimmer and healthy. I wanted to see the instant results and I didn’t mind occasionally feeling my heart race and frazzled after drinking this crap. I thought the weight curse lifted. I was losing weight and happy. I was gradually getting to the size I always wanted to be. When I got to my target weight I remember admiring myself in the mirror and thinking how great I looked at a size seven.
I ignored the comment from friends and family who commented that I looked better at a size seven but that I also looked a little frail and sickly. I ignored them and went out and bought all the sized seven clothes I could find. This drink gave me a false idea of being healthier because I was thinner.
I decided to stop when I started feeling disconnected and had these terrible headaches.
I stopped drinking the mix and gained some of the weight back.
I thought I could control my weight on my own through my diet. That was a laugh because I didn't have the self control to do it. In months I went up two sizes but I still tried to squeeze into all of my size sevens (I had given all my larger sizes to my neighbor).
At the end of the year I was a size bigger than before.
I panicked. But I figured what’s so bad about being a ten…it’s still small right? But by the end of the year I was at fourteen.
I started forcing myself to drink the chocolate crap, then the vanilla and I went down a couple of sizes but I wasn't near the size that I once was. I felt so terrible after drinking the mix that I had to stop yet again.
Then I had the crushing realization that I had become dependent on the drink. Reluctantly I threw out all the packages of powdered diet mix. Now I'm on a diet but it incorporates exercise, healthy eating and regular visits to my personal trainer. I feel better and much healthier than I had before.
It was a vicious cycle and I'm just glad that I was able to get myself together.
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