All You Need - Still Life Bangkok Thailand Neoxian City Photo Challenge

in #ntopaz5 years ago (edited)

ntopaz-image-0I took this photo to help people understand they can drink some soda and still be healthy. This is part of my weight loss coaching work.

Often obese people are ONLY drinking soda when they start their journey to a healthier life. They find it very difficult to give up, and feel bad for drinking it. One of my strategies is to show them there are healthier ways to drink soda than the chemical laden stew produced by large corporations.

My first “go to” method is to tell people to look for organic soda in the store and try it. I found several I liked when I was in the US.

Then I moved to Thailand.

People there use “Thailand’s Favorite Soda Water” and mix it with various juices. I gave it a shot myself and found this mixture to be pretty tasty and inexpensive. The soda bottle is 30 cents usd, and the juice is 60 cents. Between the two I would get a few cups of my healthy soda drink and feel satisfied.

I used to get this maybe once a week and enjoy it. But oddly enough, after a few months in Bangkok, drinking all kinds of other healthy beverages, I decided the bubbling soda was no longer to my liking. The was a huge surprise to me.

Like my clients, when I was growing up and on throughout my obese life, I rarely drank anything but soda, and diet at that. It was hard for me to turn that ship and start drinking water, juice, and smoothies when I was on my weight loss journey. But after a few years of this lifestyle, my tastes, desires, and habits have really changed.

I thought I would miss my old foods and beverages. I thought I would spend a miserable life craving what I could not have. Instead and am happy and fulfilled by healthy nutritious fare and am not tempted by the bad.

I say over and over again, that I wish I would have known this earlier in life. My fear of a healthy diet was misplaced. If I can even reach one person with this message, I will feel I have done my job.

This post is my entry for the weekly NEOXIAN CITY PHOTO CHALLENGE - WEEK : #3 by @neoxian-city. Show us a still life photo you have taken and you can enter too.

I used a Canon ELPH160 point and shoot camera for this photo.

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Haha! Thank you for your support, @mahaji. I really appreciate this :)

Thanks for sharing how we can take soda in an healthy way.