Last night I did a web search on quitting drinking diet coke. I read through lots of information that I'm not sure if I believe half of. It seems to me that if half of it were true, I would be six feet under by now. I have been drinking it for years. Like over thirty years. I have quit before. I quit every time that I was pregnant and I quit for several months when I was trying to lose weight and on this medication that kind of sped me up. I always dive right back into the habit. I drink it like water. I drink it instead of water.
In my search I was finding people who said that they had a terrible habit of at least 3 cans a day. Ha.! I scoff at your three can habit. I have three cans within a couple of hours of waking. In fact, it is not uncommon for me to drink a twelve pack a day.
I read a stat that said that people who drink 3 cans a day were 41% more likely to be obese. Evidently it does some trickery to the brain and causes you to crave more because it thinks it is going to get sugar and it never does. Well....I drink way more than 3 cans and I am really overweight even though I feel like I am constantly fighting the weight battle. So....I quit....again.
I woke up this morning and made myself a glass of lightly sweetened iced tea. I'm not quitting caffeine yet. Baby steps people! I decided that if I am quitting diet coke, I am going to try to quit artificial sweeteners too. So...I had real sugar in my oatmeal, and real sugar in my tea.
It hasn't been too bad of a day. I did have a couple of times where I was thinking about going and buying some diet coke and just cutting back a little at a time....but I think if I do that, I won't really quit. It is a fragile commitment at this point. I'm still trying to negotiate with myself out of it....like "maybe you can just have diet coke when you go out." or "maybe you can just cut back to three a day."
So far....I'm standing strong. 1 day down!
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