stop drinking soda

I made it a WHOLE YEAR without drinking a single soda! :) No soda, no cola, no Coke, no Pepsi, no Root Beer, no Dr. Pepper, no orange soda, no grape soda, YES people, NO SODA! Hooray! :) All of 2008 plus 9 days of 2009 so far. :)

Everyone setting out to complete this goal, YOU CAN DO IT! I was a soda-holic, two plus 32-oz a day, and it is not as hard as you’d think! :)

43 days till the end of the year, will be one year soda-less! Yay!

The funniest thing is, I don’t crave it while awake, but while sleeping I have these nightmares about drinking a soda. Then I feel really badly and I wake up in the morning going, whoa what happened, did I really drink that soda? ;-) I wonder if this is what it’s like to be a recovering addict of other things?

I haven’t drank soda. Not a single soda. Not even mixed with punch, booze, not even a sip from someone else’s soda. For 182 days. Wow I feel so proud of myself! It started as my 2008 New Years resolution. I only wanted to do it for 30 days. But kept on keeping on and now here we are. I don’t even crave it much anymore. But I still feel like a recovering addict, counting the days and seeing so much temptation around me. But I drank way too much soda. The calories add up, too much diabetes-causing sugar, and my teeth, oh I don’t need any more dental bills! I did it mainly to lose weight. It didn’t really help for that, because I didn’t lose anything. But I have been only drinking water, iced tea and the occasional gatorade or lemonade. I feel great! I really want to start on the weaning off sugar thing now. I eat candy, desserts, etc. I am addicted to sugar. Anyway YAY to me and good luck to all you excellent peeps out there also trying to quit! :-)