COMING SOON!!!!!!!!!!

I am turning 45 years old next week and due to complications and health issues during the pregnancy and birth of my 9th baby, I after two decades exactly of bearing children am no longer able to do so.  SO.... I've decided that now that my baby girl is one year old and counting....I will be 45 on July 20th and I am minus my gall bladder..... it's time to give myself the present my body wants.  That is GOOD HEALTH!


As most of my friends and family know...I've been a nothing but pop drinker since I was little.  First pepsi most of my childhood and teen years, then a brief 2 year break in which we quit drinking pop after we were married, then began the diet sprite for a year, then diet coke where I fell in love with this wonderful drink and announced we'd never part!  I'd guess that was about 14 years ago.  At least..... and so I drink nothing but my morning cup of coffee.........the odd lemonade or ice tea which mostly bothered me while pregnant or having gall bladder attacks so was limited.........and diet coke.

Diet COKE all day long.... never an empty glass like someone else would drink water.  As soon as the coffee was finished in the morning.... the diet coke glass was filled and my day began.

There's lots of info online about aspartame poisoning and then there's lots to debunk it.  However, I have lots of the symptoms that they declare part of aspartame poisoning and so..... I'm either going to debunk that myth or prove it right and debunk the people who say it's not true that it is harmful, but either way... what I am about to attempt..........is.............:

Break my personal addiction to DIET COKE
Get my body healthier, even if it's not aspartame poisoning as people think.... it still dehydrates you and I have symptoms of that too.
Because of my quitting pop, so are my children and my husband who has diabetes and needs to stop drinking coke especially because his IS the real thing not the diet version!

They also claim that people actually crave sweet things because of drinking diet drinks and Lord knows I do so hopefully this will help with that too.

I'm also going to attempt to eat right, less and definitely less sweet things.
The other thing I'm going to attempt, is exercise although it will be very hard for me to do regularly because I have one good day and then crash for 2 or 3 bad days before I can try again.
So... when does it all begin?
My daughter turns 10 on July 19th and I'm 45 the next day, then I have two more birthdays July 27th and August 10th, but The morning after my birthday..... I am going to start at least the coke and trying to eat better except for some cake on the bdays.

I'll try to keep this blog updated because I want a record of this experiment and need accountability!

Here goes.....wish me luck and PRAY for me!!!  Maybe my family who will have to endure my irritability and headaches that come with trying to quit diet coke every other time.