A Final Farewell

July 16, 2011  |  Posted by Melissa  

Remember that goal I posted about over a week ago?

GOAL ACCOMPLISHED!

I didn’t blog about it because I didn’t want to feel awful about myself if I wasn’t able to do it but as of today I am now 2 whole weeks without one single drop of diet coke.  Do you know what a big deal this is?  I feel so happy about it that I could scream.  For those of you who know me you all know just how addicted to diet coke I have been and for those who don’t know me let me tell you just how addicted I was.

When I woke up in the morning the first thing I thought about was how quickly I could have a diet coke – I justified this by telling myself that it was sugar-free and people have coffee in the morning which quite frankly isn’t any better than diet coke AND it sometimes has sugar in it!!  So in my mind I was making an even better choice than those people who chose coffee with cream and sugar!  Boo-yah!!  I would drink diet coke continually through the day and on most days I wouldn’t even have a single drop of anything else to drink…that’s where the problem really existed.  I know my body was likely needing the water it so desperately craved to function properly but yet the pull, the need, the craving to have diet coke was just too profound – it always and I mean ALWAYS won out over anything else…on some days I felt I couldn’t function without it.

I know that diet coke is not good for me AND I have given it up before – during each of my pregnancies I gave up diet coke because I felt the aspartame and caffeine wasn’t good for my unborn children…..BUT I could never really do it for me.  Why not?  Am I not important too?  I realize now that I am 2 whole weeks without it that it makes me crave snacky foods – is this some kind of crazy trick by the creators of the drink?  I have no idea really but I do believe that since I have given it up I have found myself feeling hungry less often so I am quite pleased to see it gone from my life.

This is the last time I am giving it up – I simply can not go back to it ever.  After I have the surgery this fall I will not be permitted to drink the coke ever again – this is the mentality that I must adapt for myself because I have heard that several years down the road people are back to their old habits and drinking pop like crazy again – not me!  I am not planning on turning myself into fraken-mama by messing with my insides just to ruin it all with a drink that quite frankly doesn’t taste very good anyway. 

So sianara diet coke – I’m breaking up with you and this time for good!

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  • Lynettehaynes_kb

    I am also a past diet coke addict and can definitely relate to waking up and craving that first can of diet coke.  That “fizz” sound as I opened a can – was like music to my ears and it didn’t matter what time I woke up; 6:30 a.m., 8:30 a.m or later – the first drink I would have was diet coke.  All day long, can after can.  I don’t drink tea, coffee or any other beverages so my main source of beverage was my reliable friend Mr. Diet Coke. 
    April 23 2007 I gave up diet coke cold turkey – I recall the night before, sitting in my bed with my can of diet coke – sipping it slowly, saying goodbye to my love affair with diet coke.  At that point I was easily consuming 6 – 8 cans a day.  Days following the withdrawal, I vomited, I had massive migraines but I knew that if I could just get past the first few weeks I could do it.  Here I am – 3 + years later and still no diet coke.  I can now have diet coke in my house and watch other people drink it. My new best friend is Ms. H2O – she is great and I drink at least 6 glasses a day.  As I wait for surgery I know my body is much healthier without the aspartame and caffeine. You can do this – one day, one hour and one minute at a time. You go girl !!!!!!!!!From a past diet coke addict :)