Diet Coke

At roughly this time last year, I went through the joys of completely cutting my daily intake of Diet Coke.  It was semi-successful, in that I did stop drinking it completely for about six months, but since then it’s crept back in again.

Primarily the return of it has been down to the simple fact that it’s still the only drink I actually like drinking. I don’t drink tea or coffee at all (maybe one cup of each per year) and don’t drink enough water – mainly because, even with the use of squashes, cordials etc., it just gets fucking boring. I swapped over to drinking things like Diet Sprite and/or Diet 7Up – I don’t mind them in small doses, so *shrug* – but they give me acid indigestion on a regular basis, and that’s no fun whatsoever.   Sure, I could drink milk, or something similar – but then the calorie count and fat count would belt up as well, even on semi-skimmed. There’s something like 250calories in a pint of milk, and 9.9g of fat.

As a result, the intake of Diet Coke has crept back up again. Not to the levels of old – but still more than I supposedly “should” be drinking. Even now, I know it could easily go back to what it was a year or two ago, but I don’t actually want that to happen.  I don’t deny – and never have – that it’s my one addiction, and I suspect it’ll never be cut out completely.

So I’m cutting down on it again. I doubt I’ll drop to zero again – I might do, but I doubt it – but it’ll get cut down, and I’ll replace about half to three-quarters of my intake with water. See what happens.

Maybe I should try getting to like tea again. I could more easily get back to drinking coffee, but even then my intake levels of it end up bordering on the ridiculous. And then I still like it black with sugar, so I’d also be adding to my sugar intake. (The same is true with tea, but I drink that less sweet, on the rare occasions I have it at all)

Anyway, I’m working to formulate a sane level of intake on all these things, and we’ll just see how it goes.