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[trinityvixen]

The Diet Pepsi thing? SHE IS OUT OF CONTROL.

Yes, this has been true for a while now, but really? It's gotten worser. With a very little help from feiran last night, I finished a 2L in about five hours by myself. That's in addition to the morning and afternoon 12 oz cans I had. I wondering after the past few mornings even if maybe caffeine makes you hungry because I seem to get hunger rumblings when I've had a morning soda versus not. And not having it would mean cutting down some of my daily DP intake, and then I'd only have to worry about the free-flowing 2L bottles, which I can probably get under control by not buying them.

But I am determined to moderate the addiction. Yes. I will probably fail, but I'm going to give it the old college try. I do this every so often and go right back to the soda, but I'm going to try not going cold turkey and just switching how much I drink, filling in with milk and juice (which I've been trying to do at lunch time) and water at work. Yes.

Okay. Let's do this Bridget Jones style:
11.29.2006
Number of hours slept -- 7
Oz of Diet Pepsi consume -- 12
LJ posts -- 1

Edits probably later.

Comments

[trakkie.livejournal.com]

It does make you hungry! It increases your metabolism too - I have a giant latte with extra espresso shots every morning - if I don't have my latte, I'm not hungry till dinner, but if I do, I'm ravenous. Weird.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Okay, so not just me then. I think I need to skip the one in the morning because I don't eat breakfast often enough to offset that. Stupid caffeine!

[cagexxx.livejournal.com]

When I decided to cut down on milk, I was surprised at how easy it was, and I actually did do it cold turkey for a while. I just stopped buying milk and started buying water, and boom, I started drinking a gallon of water a day. It helped a lot that I really like Publix water--if I wasn't happy with what I was drinking, I would have noticed a big gap in my life.

I'm back to about a quart a day (assuming I've gotten around to buying a single gallon--about half the time--otherwise it's nothing), which is where I like it. I can feel how easy it would be to binge on it again, but I just don't do it.

*bows*

Good luck! Also, I currently weigh 159, down from 173, and the only thing to credit is the lack of (an average of) 1540 calories per day, plus fat, from milk. That's motivation right there to keep it up...173 was a fine weight for me, still below average at six feet tall, but 160-ish feels so much nicer. I have more energy (everyone look out!), and I don't miss the milk belly even a little bit.

[earthrise.livejournal.com]

I giggle at the idea of a "milk belly."

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

Good for you! I dumped Vanilla Coke and all other sodas pretty much cold turkey and it is only feiran's influence that gets me to drink it once in a while. Soon you won't really miss it. Water is really better most of the time, or unsweetened iced tea.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Caffeine makes me less hungry but I suspect that it only because it makes me vaguely nauseous. I really don't tolerate it well. But it does wonderful things for headaches and concentration and mood, so I drink it anyway when I can.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

I crack up that anyone would feel the need to cut down on milk, unless they were lactose-intolerant or somesuch.

[slackwench.livejournal.com]

Caffeine is a stimulant, and stimulants (in general) raise your metabolism.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Well, by sticking in juice and such as substitute, I'd actually be adding calories, since diet soda has basically none. But, still, it's better to get calories+nutrients than not.

But I'm going to do my best to moderate and not go cold turkey. We'll see how successful that is and then maybe move on to giving up the soda entirely.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I think I like the taste but not the after taste, hence the constant refilling. Maybe I'll allow myself a glass or two then force the switch over to water. Or, one better, brush my teeth. I'm more lazy than anything else, so I probably wouldn't get more soda if it meant having to brush my teeth again.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I think I'm at a saturation point where I don't get any effect from the caffeine I'm ingesting. I'll taper off the soda and see if that changes. Then I could actually count on caffeine to keep me awake when I needed it.