"Ronn!Blankenship" wrote:
>
> At 02:31 PM 5/29/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote:
>
> >who was, at one point, getting about 20% of her calories from Coca-Cola
> >every day, but cut way, way, way back (and is willing to share the
> >secret of what worked for *her* if anyone asks)
>
> Being too poor to have change for the machine?
>
> Works For Me Maru
Nah. We were buying 2-liter bottles at Eckerd 2-3 times a week whenever
they were on sale (which was about half the time), 6 at a time, so
change never entered into it.
I'd tried cutting down, and the consumption would just creep back up, so
I'd be right back to where I started.
So I figured, maybe I should just refrain from drinking Coca-cola 2 days
in a row. On a day I was drinking it, I wouldn't limit my intake, but I
couldn't have any the *next* day.
So over the next few weeks, every time I wanted a Coke, I'd ask myself,
"How badly do I need the sugar & caffeine? And, knowing what my likely
schedule is going to be tomorrow, might I need it worse at some point
then?" And if the answer to the second question was, "Yes, at least
with 40% probability", I wouldn't have any.
In less than a month, I'd managed a 10-day Coca-cola-free streak. I
started sometime in April, and I managed to keep to the
not-2-days-in-a-row rule until late in August or early in September, and
*that* was at a long SF convention. (Trying to remember which year it
was -- Bucconeer or the Anaheim NASFiC? One of those two, anyway.)
Long about the 3rd & 4th days, I just needed the caffeine. :P
Now, I didn't cut out caffeine entirely; I was drinking caffeinated tea,
1-2 mugs' worth (1 teabag per mug), every day, starting partway through
breakfast. But the Coca-cola was my preferred caffeine vehicle later in
the day. (My iced tea consumption went up, but considering where I went
to school, that wasn't inappropriate.) It had a ton of empty calories,
which the tea & iced tea didn't. (I don't sweeten either. I use lime
or lemon in my iced tea, and that's it; the calories from the paltry
amount of citrus juice aren't entirely empty.) So the empty-calorie
consumption decreased significantly, which was a big part of why I
wanted to drink a lot less cola.
Julia
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