I wish I hadn’t turfed out the bathroom scale when I moved out of the last place. I GET NO RESPECT!
There are two things I’ve been addicted to for ten years or more. The first is Dristan spray, that I was hooked on for the better part of a decade. I literally couldn’t breathe without it at times. I remember once being at my mother’s place and waking up at four in the morning completely and totally congested. There were no drug stores open and my car was being fixed, so I walked about six blocks at four in the morning (I think it was in March to boot, brrrr) to have about seven large coffees to try and “steam” it out. I think I’m going on my 9th or 10th month without it and my sinuses are actually starting to show signs of functioning properly again.
The second is Pepsi. Sure, I drink juice - sometimes. I drink water more often. But probably since the early 80’s it’s safe to say that the vast majority of what I drank was Pepsi. It was fine when I was a kid because I had a killer metabolism. I could eat a whole cow and not gain a pound. Now… things have changed. Both my parents are diabetics. My mother’s father was too. So basically I figure I’m doomed. Two weeks ago I dropped sugar - cold turkey. I think the only times I’ve cheated have been maybe once a week for a sugar “reduced” Snapple. Since then I’ve been going through diet pop like no tomorrow trying to find something I like. After all those years as a diehard Pepsi drinker, I think I may switch allegiences. I think I prefer Diet Coke or Coke Zero (although from the monogram I can’t tell what the difference is). Since dropping the sugar out of my diet (and trust me, it has NOT been easy) I would guess I’ve lost between five and ten pounds in two weeks with potentially more on the horizon. Last night I was talking to an acquaintance of mine who said her husband had done the same thing and was melting pounds like crazy and it was making her sick because he wasn’t exercising.
I think I need to go to XS Cargo and buy a scale. 
As crazy as it is, the commercials for the variety of Diet Dr. Peppers is pretty on target - they really don’t taste that much like a diet soda. My favorite is the Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper, but it’s getting hard to find - the new ‘Berries ‘n Cream’ Diet Dr. P isn’t bad at all either. And I don’t even like regular Dr. Pepper.
Justin Moore
June 26th, 2006
Yeah I find it’s good too. We don’t have the berries one up here.
netnomad
June 26th, 2006