Oprah: ‘The Baking Soda Routine That Made Me Lose 56 lb — and Finally Broke My Cycle of Losing and Regaining Weight’

The difference was that this time I stopped treating everything as a willpower problem.

I had already proven to myself that I could lose weight. I did the liquid diets. I worked with personal trainers. I went through structured programs. I knew what it felt like to watch the scale go down.

The problem was what came after.

Sooner or later, I would find myself fighting the same weight again. At some point you have to admit that repeating the same strategy with even more discipline may not be the answer.

I was around 211 lb.

And what bothered me most was not just the number. It was thinking: I have done this before. I have had periods where I lost a lot of weight. Why do I keep ending up back here?

I did not want to spend the rest of my life moving between a new program, a period of success, and then the frustration of starting all over again.

It was one of those things that sounds almost too simple to take seriously the first time you hear it.

Baking soda? After everything I had already tried?

My first thought was the same thing anyone would think: if the answer were a few dollars’ worth of baking soda, why wouldn’t it be working for everybody?

That is when I learned about the part the short viral videos leave out.

No. That is exactly what I do not want people to take away from this.

Baking soda was the first step. It was the easiest part to turn into a viral video because everyone recognizes the ingredient.

But the routine I followed had three parts. The logic depended on all three working together.

The simplest way I learned to think about it was in two directions: BURN or STORE.

Use energy or store it.

For years I had thought almost entirely about how much I ate and how much I exercised. This routine made me look at the question differently: not just how much comes in, but which direction the body is being pushed.

Baking soda was presented as the first step. Concentrated gingerol came next. Berberine closed the sequence.

For me, the point was not memorizing terms. It was understanding why one ingredient by itself did not explain the full routine.

No. During that period, I was not using a GLP-1.

Because knowing the names of the ingredients is not the same thing as knowing a formula.

How much baking soda? What form of ginger? How much gingerol? How much berberine? In what ratio?

That was one of the things that changed how I looked at it. The internet version reduces everything to one ingredient because that fits in 30 seconds. The routine I was following was not that simple.

Form, dose and ratio were part of the combination. I did not want to turn my kitchen into a laboratory or keep guessing whether I was repeating the same thing from one day to the next.

That was the period when I went from about 211 lb to around 155 lb.

About 56 lb.

But I need to say something that matters more to me than the number.

I had lost weight before. What I wanted to know was whether I could stop ending up back in the same place.

No.

That may be one of the biggest differences this time.

I did not want to treat 155 as a finish line and then go back to living exactly the way I had before. The routine stayed part of my day because my goal became maintaining what I had lost.

After so many experiences of losing and regaining weight, maintenance stopped being an afterthought. It became central to what I was trying to do.

SlimSoda.

I would say that person is comparing one piece with the entire routine.

If I were talking only about baking soda, I would agree. It would not make sense to pay for something else.

But that is exactly the point: the combination I used was not a random spoonful of baking soda. It was the complete formula, with all three components already together so I did not have to buy, measure and try to get everything right separately.

For me, the value was consistency — knowing I was repeating the same combination in a simple way every day.

The woman who has already proven that she can try.

The woman who has dieted, trained, bought the shake or the gummy, joined the program — and is tired of feeling as if every new attempt starts from zero.

I know the feeling of believing the next plan has to be the perfect plan.

What I was looking for was not perfection. It was a simple routine I could actually sustain.

Do not confuse the baking soda with the entire formula.

It was the first step in a three-part daily routine that entered my life during the period when I lost about 56 lb — and stayed with me because I wanted to maintain the weight I had lost.