Fast Easy Tip

Diet Drinks Make You Fat – Water Helps You Slim

Diet sodas containing sweeteners such as aspartame may be the very worse thing you can drink if you are trying to lose weight, or control your weight.

The fuel your cells burn is actually glucose and all fuel sources whether they are fats, proteins, or complex carbohydrates (sugars and starches) have to be converted to glucose before your body can use them.

A useful way to illustrated this is to compare your bodies cells to a light bulb. An electric light can only utilize electricity as a power source but that electricity ,can be made from a variety of base sources such as gas, coal, nuclear and solar.

In the same way your body converts various base sources into glucose, the easiest to convert is sugar. This means as soon as you taste sugar your brain sends a signal to your body that sugar is on the way, and it stops using any other sources of glucose. Including fat.

The problem with diet sodas is that they deliver the taste without the hit of sugar. This leads to a shortfall in your bodies glucose requirements .

This leads to massive craving for high sugar foods such as cakes, chocolate and biscuits.

Worse still if you habitually consume diet sodas you can train your body to lay down extra fat supplies to offset unreliable sugar deliveries.

The problem is often compounded by the fact that diet sodas often contain caffeine. Caffeine is addictive so it easy to become hooked on diet sodas.

Also caffeine is also a diuretic and often leads to dehydration and thirst.

This thirst leads to another diet soda or is mistaken for hunger, which leads to overeating.

So what the solution, you must stop drinking diet sodas and substitute them for plain unflavored un-sweeten water. You will probably have to wean yourself off sodas over the course of several days or a week

Start by making the very first drink of the day at least 500ml of plain water and then if you can’t initially resist some soda substitute every other soda for 500mls of water. (you should be aware that many bottle waters contain sweeteners read the label).

Water is by far the best thing you can drink for weight loss and control and also offers many other health benefits.