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Jan. 10th, 2005 11:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mommydamaToday is the first day of implementing my New Year's Resolution. I didn't talk about it before because I can never follow through on anything, but I see now that I need the accountability. Here it is.
Yesterday, I drank my last diet Coke. Or Coke of any kind actually. Perhaps, after the initial withdrawal has passed, I can have one as an occasional treat, but I was drinking three of four cans a day and that has to stop. Now. No more Coke. Caffeine is only one very small reason that I want to get rid of Coke (have you ever read the ingredients in that stuff! Yikes!!), but I do want to severely limit caffeine too. I don't drink coffee, but I do like tea, so for the first few days I am going to allow myself two cups of tea, iced most likely, as it is too warm here for anything else, to help me over the caffeine hump. Tea is actually very good for me, green tea especially, so I may continue a morning ritual of having tea. But I must get rid of the pop (do you call it soda or pop or soda pop or a generic, southern "coke"? Just curious.)
Yesterday, I drank my last diet Coke. Or Coke of any kind actually. Perhaps, after the initial withdrawal has passed, I can have one as an occasional treat, but I was drinking three of four cans a day and that has to stop. Now. No more Coke. Caffeine is only one very small reason that I want to get rid of Coke (have you ever read the ingredients in that stuff! Yikes!!), but I do want to severely limit caffeine too. I don't drink coffee, but I do like tea, so for the first few days I am going to allow myself two cups of tea, iced most likely, as it is too warm here for anything else, to help me over the caffeine hump. Tea is actually very good for me, green tea especially, so I may continue a morning ritual of having tea. But I must get rid of the pop (do you call it soda or pop or soda pop or a generic, southern "coke"? Just curious.)
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Date: 2005-01-10 10:06 am (UTC)Good for you for giving it up. I've switched to the Whole Foods Generic variety of soda, because I couldn't give up soda altogether, but wanted to get rid of some of the bad stuff. The Whole Foods brand has no sodium, no caffeine, and uses sugar instead of the dreaded High Fructose Corn Syrup, so it could be worse. And, hey, since I'm aware that it costs more than my beloved Caffeine Free Pepsi (though not much more), and that we have to drive a Honking Long Way to get it, I'm a lot more likely to drink water or lemonade than soda.
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Date: 2005-01-10 10:00 pm (UTC)Why is high fructose corn syrup worse than regular old sugar? I know it is, but I don't know why.
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Date: 2005-01-11 04:42 am (UTC)Caffeine can be hard to kick! Tea's better for you than soda, though. :)