Are You A Soda Or A So-nyet?
2007-08-29, 15:23

I decided on Friday that I was going to go 'cold turkey' off of soda. This was in conjunction with the decision that H made, that we were both, starting Monday, going to jump back onto the Sugar Busters bandwagon. That was the wagon we got on in 2000 (in prep for our wedding - for H - and for our crumbling health - mainly me) and fell off in 2002 when I got laid off and money tightened. I did like the program while we were on it, mainly because it doesn't involve counting and charting and 'eat only rutabagas for two weeks' type nonsense. It's just about eating sensibly and moderately, and avoiding refined sugar and white flour. And it has bi-weekly cheating built in - or is that something we borrowed from Atkins? I don't remember. It's harder on H, with her being a veggie and all, to keep up on her protein. I suppose I should stock up on natural peanut butter.

Anyway, so far I'm happy to have done it. Granted, I'm drinking a lot more tea lately, but that's okay. The amount of caffeine via tea I can manage to ingest in a workday pales to the amount of diet cola-based stimulants I could and was getting into my system. And, more importantly, no more aspartame - the Ashcroft sweetener. I'm just as dubious of sucralose, a.k.a. Splenda, mainly because, from what I read, it's gone through the same rigorous FDA testing that aspartame did 15 years ago (read: little to none). Golly, how could modified chlorine possibly do us any harm?! Sheesh.

I'd like to say that I'm already feeling better overall, but that could just be the placebo effect of starting a diet doing the talking (I want to be feeling better, so I do feel better). No matter - I'll take what I can get.

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