About 3 weeks or so I shared with you how I am going to lay off the soda. Well, I have fallen off the wagon. I made it 3 days without any, then it just sorta started trickling back in until it started gushing. I’m still not back to previous levels though, which is good.
I still have the goal of going an entire week without any, with the ultimate goal of having it only occasionally. I find myself drinking it to get my sweet fix, which I am a major sweetaholic. I haven’t given up.
I wanted to let you know how I was doing so far on my soda-weaning process. Yesterday was my first day, and all I had was one can of Diet Twist-up (nothing but the best at our house.) I have this huge 1-liter water bottle that I filled up 5 times yesterday, which comes to 1.3 gallons of water. If I can’t drink Dew, I’ve got to drink something.
Today all I’ve had is a large Diet Coke from McDonald’s (not supersized and no refills), and I have drank 4 liters of water. I’ll probably get at least one more liter of water in before I go to bed.
Before I started this I would have had about 10 cans under my belt by now. So I’d say I’m off to a good start, although my left eye is twitching and my neck keeps jerking and when I look at my family their heads look like Mountain Dew cans.
I love Mountain Dew. It is my favorite drink. I drink so much of it, that I think if you would cut me I would literally bleed Mountain Dew. A few years ago I started to drink Diet Mountain Dew so I wouldn’t be drinking all those calories. Eventually I noticed caffeine was starting to affect me, so I made the hard decision to lay off the Dew.
When we moved here to Ames, imagine my delight when I walked into the store and noticed caffeine-free Diet Mountain Dew on the shelves! I had never heard of such a thing. I was back in business!
Yesterday I was thinking about how much I drink. On a normal day I will down at least 4, usually 5 cans. That doesn’t seem like a lot to a hard core Dewaholic, but it adds up to 120-150 cans a month or about $50 a month. The other thing that is beginning to worry me is all the junk in the soda that I am drinking. I’ve never really listened too much to studies done that show this one thing causes cancer or will make hair grow on your palms, because next month another study will disprove it. But still I have to wonder.
Here’s what I’m gonna do. I am going to lay off the soda. I’ve got 6 cans left, and when these are gone I am going to go at least a whole week without any soda of any kind. When I get to the end of that first week I will either decide to go for another week, or I will reward myself with a nice cold Dew and then go for another week. My ultimate goal will be to move from a Dewaholic to a casual Dew drinker.
I will post about my progress here; maybe you can join me. By the way, I said I’ve got 6 cans left, but I am going to try my best to make these things last. 
Then I’ll get started.
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