So I took out aspartame from my daily diet,I didn't reduce it but stopped it altogether. It was like cold turkey,I was feeling like I was coming off a major drug and it took a good few weeks of resisting it to finally get it out of my system and more importantly my mind.
That was a good start and things started looking brighter but I still had a problem with high blood pressure, and not forgetting that I had not lost any weight
I started looking at the salt content in foods that I was eating and again this was a revelation. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3650578.stm
A lot of the processed and pre-packed food that we eat on a daily basis has huge amounts of salt/sodium in it. In fact ready meals which formed a big part of our work lunch boxes have a appalling amount of salt, sugar and fats, not including the preservatives in each portion.
So after many weeks of checking out information on the internet and other sources, I came to the conclusion that loosing weight,lowering my BMI and reducing was not going to be as easy as I thought.
By now I had realised that calorie control was no good for me, forget weight watchers and slimming world they just did not fit my life style. So what do I do next.
I was at a stage where things were going quite well despite not loosing weight. My depression was seriously reducing and I was getting confident that a solution to my excess weight was just out there somewhere but I had not found it yet.
So things were better, I had greatly reduced salt/sodium and I was completely off aspartame. I had realised that various fads and diets were not for me so it was only a matter of time before I found the solution.
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