So I'm on a health kick lately trying to shed the 10 pounds I so quickly gained. Did anyone else's metabolism just stop completely at age 30? It's horrible! I used to be able to eat anything I wanted without even worrying about what it was going to do to my thighs. I've recently come to notice that I'm struggling to tug my jeans over my thighs and hiney (which has been nonexistent until the last few months). I read a book on eating healthy and I'm a regular at the gym, but the pounds seem to come faster and faster as of late.
So for my new year's resolution I've decided to cut soda out of my daily diet. This means no more soda....and worse, no more Dr. Pepper. This may gross some people out, but I sat down and thought about the last 10-12 years of my life and I can only think of one day I ever went 24 hours without a Dr. Pepper (or in dire times a substitute of Coke or Pepsi) and that day was the day I gave birth to Addison. I was restricted from eating or drinking anything before I was induced and because I had her so late at night I wasn't able to get Rich to run out for a soda for me.
I'm two days into my "no-soda" kick and it's killing me. I was doing great until about 8pm last night. The headache came roaring in and I haven't been able to shake it since. I can't take any headache medicine because they all contain caffeine which is what is causing the headache to begin with (or the lack of caffeine I should say). We'll see if I can really make this work. Wish me luck!
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When Quinn quite drinking DR. Pepper, I came home one night to find him SICK!!... He larfed and larfed from the withdrawls. I use to LOVED diet Coke, but made myself get off. Now I can't even stand the smell of colas.. Anyway.. Good luck! I hope it's over quickly.
Yipes! Hang in there. Can you switch to Diet Dr. Pepper? I gave up my ONE Diet Cherry Pepsi I would have every day when I realized it was why I was having heart palpitations and couldn't sleep. Went through a week of headaches and really missed the 'kick' in the afternoons. But I feel a lot better now.
I still drink soda, but it's diet caffeine free, which aren't nearly so yummy, but I found some fabulous mix in's from DaVinci (ordered online) that are sugar free.
Good luck, take Ibuprofin, there's no caffeine in that! It'll tide you over. :)
I used to have a diet caffeine free pepsi every day. It was hard to quite even though I was drinking caffeine free. It was a habit for me mostly.
Good Luck!!!
How's it going? Are you still able to do it? I wish that was one habit I could break. Good luck.
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