In years past I had a very strong affection for diet Coke. I referred to it as my sweet nectar, sweet lady C, headache prevention and breakfast. But then I read a book about headaches which led me to believe that the very nectar I was imbibing for pleasure and to avoid headaches was actually causing them! I was so desperate for relief from these headaches that I stopped my 15 year relationship cold turkey! It wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be, it was more the relationship and habit that I missed. It will be 2 years in just a couple of weeks that I haven't even touched a drop!
Long story short, this is what I was reduced to drinking yesterday. I usually drink ice water all day and night, but every now and again I get a hankering (yes a hankering) for a soda of some kind. I consider this nubby, kid soda but thought it sounded good. After half a glass though I was done and ended up rinsing the ice and eating that instead. This is a sad state of affairs.
**What's your poison??**
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Funny that you mention that- Kelly (according-to-kelly.blogspot.com) just posted about that too. I commented there that my poison is Dr. Pepper. I come by it honestly though- my mom LOVES DP. But I was just telling Josh last night that I need to stop again because I've been getting headaches. It's been a love/hate relationship with DP for years. Good for you that it's been 2 years! Impressive!
I still have an occasional Diet Coke with Lime (especially from Sonic--yum!), but my big poison is from the best bean ever--coffee!!
I also drink a lot of water to balance everything out (hopefully).
Yoohoo. I just saw it at Wal-Mart a few weeks ago. Before that, barely anyone in Utah sold it. Now, I may be headed for disaster.
Mocha frappucino from Starbucks with a ton of fattening whipped cream on top does me in every time. There is something about the sugar/caffeine combo that is irresistable!!
Pepsi! Although I don't drink it. I still crave it. I will induldge a glass here and there when out to dinner. Think half my stomach problems have come from drinking it. I use to be a Coke drinker. I use to think that it would help keep migraines away, even had a Dr tell me to drink it instead of having to take meds for my migraines. What was the name of the book you read?
**What's your poison??**
hmmm..i dont think i have one?? i havent had a coke since the 5th or 6th grade-i cant STAND how it grits my teeth!!!
and DIET?! that stuff just nasty to me!
i use to order sprite or rootbeer when ever we went out to eat..now i just get water (its been about 3 years now)..i really just get soda on fridays! (when i get my fabulous western bacon burger!!)but maybe now i'll switch that over to lemonade..although im sure that probably has tons of sugar in it too!?!?
Coke Slurpees....
Diet Coke or Diet Dr. Pepper are deifinitely my poisons. I have been trying to drink more water, when I exercise alot. I tend to sweat alot and found that if I don't drink alot of water throughout the day I will get backaches. I figured this pain may be my kidneys screaming for a little extra water.
I'm impressed you have gone two years. I seriously crave mine everyday and don't know if I would like to quit, just yet.
Any Jones Sodas I love. I also love Pepsi but I can't drink it because caffeine has such a strong effect on me if I drink it even in the early afternoon I am up all night!
We make our own soda with sparkling water and juice. So yummy and no corn syrup.
Well, you know my poison, you have a lovely photo of it. I guess I figure it's better than the regular junk I stopped drinking 2 years ago.
On occasion, with a slice of pizza in hand, I have been known to have a small glass of rootbeer. Otherwise, I am not a soda drinker. Many moons ago when I was 17 and working I would eat a great healthy breakfast and then stop by 7-11 on the way to work to get my morning ritual of a big gulp of Pepsi and a bag of Whoopers. I did that DAILY for a year. I was ill. I, too, did cold turkey and haven't looked back in a zillion years. I am a huge water drinker.
GOOD FOR YOU and breaking that cycle! Have you read the new report on just having ONE soda every day. SCARY!?!!
Elizabeths concoction sounds interesting for sure!
Water all the way. You know I rarely touch anything else. In fact I am surprise to see you with grape soda. I thought you were a water girl now too.
That isn't a question just about soda right? Right at this moment I am going through a cereal and candy faze, I have never been one to eat cereal for breakfast or even during the day but right now I LOVE malt-o-meals Golden Puffs!!! I have been eating them all day long! I'm just waiting for the day that I finally get my fill of them, as for the candy, NERDS! Can you believe it? I am just craving sugar right now!!! I went to wal-mart last night and bought four boxes of those 88cents ones and poured them in a small ziploc bag, almost filled it up!!! we'll see how long it lasts. It's kinda okay because I do need to gain weight, though I don't need diabetes!
I am addicted, yes addicted to water! I use to love Dr. Pepper, but had a really bad caffeine reaction so I quit cold turkey 6 years ago now. Since then I have had the hankering, yes hankering for lots of different things but have always come back to water. I love it!
Okay, I am having trouble even imagining Price Cream Parlor with a big gulp of Pepsi and a bag of Whoppers.
If I get a headache, I do wash down my ibuprofen with some coke or pepsi. It somehow just works better that way. Every Sunday after nursery I have to medicate myself with a little advil cola cocktail. At least I'm not really making it a cocktail, right?
I really can't believe it's been almost 2 years now! It was kind of hard to stop thinking of you as a Diet Coke drinker, as you're the one who really got me hooked. But I have read the recent study about drinking one soda a day and I have to say it scared me a bit. I love water and drink tons, but I do usually have a Diet Coke or Pepsi every day.
Great, now that Rebecca mentioned Coke Slurpees, I have a hankering for that!
Oh...I am a Diet Coke LOVER, especially if it comes from the fountain (not so much from the can) with lots of ice. I love the stuff, but I too went cold turkey when I found out I was pregnant. I usually don't drink it at all pregnant and nursing and I stayed away from it my first three months. However, I have slowly started drinking it again (oh, I just love it), but I am trying to limit it to just a little!!
My poison is definately the one in your photo, and has been for has I can remember. It keeps me sane, which makes everyone in my family happy.
I am very proud that you have gone two years without it. Good Job!
My parents didn't let us drink cola when I was growing up, and so I've never gotten into it. I do like pop occationally, but then I like the very thing you were shocked you were drinking - grape!
My drink of choice is orange juice. When I was in highschool my parents had to pay for my addition. 2 gallons a week, easy. When I moved out I was too broke to afford it and it became my special occation drink. Funny, eh?
I LOVE grape soda. I love coke and dr.pepper better though. I allow myself one soda a week. It works pretty well.
I gave up coke about 2 years ago also, I'm not quite as strict as you though, I will take a sip of that draught now and then. Mostly it's water and/or crystal light (lemonade, rasp lemonade or grape)
I have mentioned this before in my list of 100, but I have an addiction to Coke Classic. I can't get through a day without caffeine, and when I try, I get awakened by a nasty migraine in the middle of the night. I need to stop, but I am lacking in the will power department.
I am pretty good about limiting myself to one a day, then my drink of choice is bottled water.
Very fascinating topic actually - to hear everyone's responses. I am impressed with you and others going cold turkey. I never used to drink soda and now I get cravings for it - any kind will do - rootbeer or DP or diet coke. I am a candy girl though. I could eat some form of chocolate or candy all day.
I am on the Pepsi side- never been a diet coke fan. Luckily for me, this medication makes it taste funny so I have been avoiding it and going for the diet limeades at Sonic. Mmmmmm
Mmmm chocolate. Chocolate chip cookies especially so I try not to make them ever! But within the last 2 months I think I've made them 4 times at least!
I had weaned myself from Diet Coke and Pepsi (I prefer the latter--especially if it's Wild Cherry), but recently have taken up the habit again--urg! I know I'd be better off to stick with water. What is this soda study that will scare me into not drinking it anymore?
Ghiradeli dark chocolate chips are my other poison--an additive one, to be sure. (And unfortunately, Sam's Club sells them in large bags.) I tell myself that dark chocolate is good for my heart, but I'm not so sure it's so good for my waistline.
Oh, I SO get the diet coke addiction. I've been using Fresca as "methadone" to get off DC. And Lemonade Lite--yum--when water just won't do.
lemonade (never the light garbage) is my real poison. but I LOVE a grape soda once in a while. and a cherry limeade is perfect on a hot day. if I'm feeling rebellious, half a dr. pepper. but never diet anything. I'm in all or nothin'!!
Let's see here...I am sipping my millionth diet coke of the day as I browse blogs. A serious problem. Growing up, my parents had (and still have) a fridge in their basement soley for pop! I blame them. I am 29 and should consider taking a healthier approach to life, maybe. I seriously admire your will power. Wow!
oh my word- i can't handle all these people leaving their vices behind!! i feel so guilty! i'm such a diet pepsi addict- i have one in front of me right now....
that grape soda brought back memories of old- i won one in 3rd grade and it exploded all over me at lunch. the smell still brings back that memory vividly!
I'm a water only addict. But extremely & obsessively picky about my water. And now when I once in a while sip a soda in desperation, I'm sadly disappointed by the syrupy disasters.
Raspberry margaritas, Raspberry Belgian beer, smart water.
Right now I have an unhealthy relationship with Diet Coke or my new favorite saying from you is Sweet Lady C (that's hilarious!). I know I shouldn't drink it while I'm pregnant but I'm drawn to it.
Love Grape soda too, takes me right back to being a kid. Yum!
There is something about the sound of that soda can popping open, the fizz as it pours into a glass, and the clinking of the ice that can really do me in.... It gets to me sometimes, but mostly I don't like the after-effects of it so it's not TOO hard to resist. Pepsi is my weakness.
I don't drink a lot of soda but when I do I enjoy Jones Soda. I think I like it's look more than it's taste. It looks so pretty in the clear bottles.
Just found your blog, you are so cute!!! Love the blog, will be back :)
Oh, and I'm hooked on Wild Cherry Diet Pepsi :)
Diet Coke is my poison, but I heven't had any since the end of February. For me it was a self mastery thing--I mostly wanted to see if I could do it. I could, but literally a day doesn't go by that I don't wish I could have some. Which indicates to me that I shouldn't ever give in! But the soda fountain at Target beckons every time I go. I haven't sworn off soda altogether. I still let myself have gingerale on airplanes. And there was the time I had the stomach flu and I drank Sprite. But now there has to be a reason for some carbonation, and, really, there aren't very many good reasons for soda. The two I mentioned above and root beer floats (which I drink less than once a year).
I too use to be a huge soda drinker and I quit cold turkey too. June 17, 2006.. a year and a couple of months for me! Best decision I ever made.. my poison now is unsweet tea :o) especially from sonic- not that the tea is so great.. its the ice :o)
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