Did any of you see the headline yesterday that said "Diet Drinks Make You Fat"?
Well, excuse me if I throw in a vaguely smug cry of "Fuckin' d'uh!"
Number one, things lke Diet Coke still have the caramel in, so you're still basically getting a fizzy sugar-syrup. Number two, these things are put out there by businesspeople and marketeers. Watch just one episode of The Apprentice and tell me you think these people have a single redeeming principle. These people would happily sell you chocolate-robed cocaine as a 'diet aid' if they thought people would buy it in droves. If you compare diet drinks with non-diet drinks, hellyeah, there's more sugar in the non-diet - which is how they get away with this stuff. But now scientists ahve worked out that the artificial sweeteners actually make you hungrier, cos they give you an 'orosensory stimulus' that makes your body think "Ooh, yum! Lots of food on the way, hurrah!"
So drinking the diet versions actually encourage your brain and body to think it's hungrier than it really is, so you eat more...and more...and more...just cos you're not getting the calories you promised your body by sucking down a diet drink.
So - for all the years I spent sucking down Diet Coke by the bottlefull, thinking 'shit, this much be good for me, it's Diet, right?" I'm thinking of sueing Coca Cola for making me the fat bastard I am today. Hell, you read the Daily Mail, all you ever hear is that we're living in a country where the litigation culture's gone mad - time to get me a piece of that sweet Coca-Cola-covered action, I think...
Yes, of course I'm being facetious. If you didn't realise the drinks companies didn't give a crap about you and would lie, lie, lie to sell you more of their products, you don't deserve to live without a carer!
Blood was 4.7 this morning, as opposed to 5.7 yesterday. Need to jump on the bike right now between Xenical-bouts. Oh yeah, it's all fun, this weightloss lark...
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