The bain of my existence, DIET COKE

The bain of existence, but oh how I love it

Diet Coke, oh how I LOVE you.  Like my couch, you are always there for me.  Your soothing, effervescent bubbles, your caffeine, you are like heroin.  I am in the COKE ZONE.  I have left Couchland, but the Coke Zone is MUCH MUCH MUCH harder to leave.  I'm getting the shakes right now as I write this.

About 18 years ago I was a die hard Pepsi drinker.  I wouldn't drink anything but.  One day I thought that I was getting too much sugar from pop.  SO I wanted to switch to diet.  Now, diet Pepsi is disgusting.  So I switched to diet coke as it didn't taste like regular Coke which is also disgusting.  And from that VERY first sip, I was hooked, just like heroin.  You think I'm joking?  I'm not.  It's like heroin.  You long for that one sip, it's mind over matter.  All your days problems go away with just one sip.  Not unlike heroin or even that first drag of a smoke..... Ah, that's better.

Now, people in North America are under the assumption (what's that saying?  Never assume, LOL) that diet pop is a better drinking choice than regular pop or soda.  WRONGO!!!!!! SO not true.  Yes it has less sugar, but it's full of aspartame which causes cancer, not to mention so does aluminum.  NEVER drink from aluminum cans folks.  YES, it has 0 calories, but of all the shit we eat on a daily basis, are a few more calories going to kill me?  I doubt it.

My brother told me the scientific mumbo jumbo about why diet is so much worse for you than regular pop or soda, but for the life of me I can't remember.  But that's neither here nor there.



I need to leave THE COKE ZONE......

I must leave you, but I don't want too

Regardless of all the science, the gorgeous people in the commercials with their amazing fancy lives, I NEED to leave.  I know it's not making me better, it's probably hindering me from losing weight, actually I KNOW it is.  I can't go to the gym and drink diet Coke on the treadmill, how silly would that look?  

I will have you all know that I have tried to quit this lovely, yummy bubbly drink on more than one occasion.  The longest I have made it was about a week and that's because I had the flu.  I have given up just about everything else in my life with ease, but NOT this.  I dunno what it is.  We seem to always find each other again like long lost friends...... It's magnetic almost.  

I don't drink coffee, I hardly drink tea.  So how on earth do I get caffeine?  That's the key thing.  I can't be a miserable bitch for weeks.  My co-workers, family and friends will HATE me.  Is there such thing as caffeinated water?  If so I'll be all over that.

Conclusion?

Drinking diet Coke isn't getting me any closer to my fitness goals, weight goals, and overall health goals, SO as much as I love you my dear friend, it's time we part ways, FOR GOOD (starting January 1, 2013 LOL) I will miss you, more than you'll ever know, but you have billions of other people out there who will gladly enjoy you as much as I have.