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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 12:33 pm (UTC)One thing you might note, caffeine is a pretty powerful diuretic, so don't freak out if you abruptly gain some weight after you cut it. It's just water weight! And as soon as your body gets used to balancing its water *without* the big diuretic hit, you'll drop that off again; counterintuitive as it may seem, drinking *more* water will help that happen faster.
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Date: 2005-01-10 01:32 pm (UTC)