Most people who know me are probably not surprised that the movie Kingpin is one of my all time favs. "You see bowling for money, that's my only vice. Here's your drink sugar, ok two." is the frame depicted in this photo from the movie. I used to have two vices: 1) chewing my fingernails and 2) drinking diet soda. Somewhere along the lines after I had Laura, I kind of "outgrew" my nail chewing. I think it was purely cause I was so damn busy with two kids that I couldn't even find the time to shower let alone chew on my damn nails! Or maybe my life got less stressful? Yeah, probably not.
Well, I think the day has come that I'm going to tackle that second vice. My diet dew or fountain diet coke is like that first morning smoke for some. I don't drink a 12 pack a day or anything, actually it's more like I open 3 cans throughout the day and drink on average about half the can. So I don't really need to ingest the soda, it's just the mere action of going to the fridge, pulling one out, and opening it just to catch a swig while I'm eating something.
This will be hard for me, I'm guessing I'll have awful withdrawal headaches. . . And I'm not a milk or juice drinker, so water it will have to be. I won't completely take it out of my diet, I'm hoping I can just be a 'social' soda drinker, you know like that person who only smokes when they're drinking. Jason doesn't think I can do it, when I told him I was thinking about doing it he said "no way, you said it would always be your one vice."
I want to prove him wrong but I also just want to do it for myself, hell if I can stop chewing my nails I should be able to do this. I'm going to make Friday the 'magic day', wish me luck!
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Good luck!! I gave up my daily diet Pepsi last year and it was awful for a week and still hurt week two. I had no idea how "addicted" I was. But honestly, I feel so much better now. It's hard - but it's definitely worth it!!
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