Giving up soda?!

[jateshi]

So going without soda is a lot harder than initially thought not in the slightest because it means I have had a migraine everyday since Thursday. The giving-up-soda is from Thursday when the sheer amount of sodium contained in the amount of soda I consume was more than a package of my beloved ramen. <3 And right now ramen is bad because it is that beloved sodium which increases the amount of time I suffer side-effects of an unexpected journey into jagged rock junction chocolate land. I've been watching a lot of ZP and it hsows in the way I automatically filled out the rest of that sentence. :| But I love me my ZP sooooo...

I love reading the random comment threads on wow_ladies - they make me giggle insanely. :3 The idea of naming a worgen "Sparklewhut" is just... heeeee.

I'm honestly thinking of moving Arlu to an RP server - there's a completely awesome RP guild that is recruiting right now and Arlu would fit in there so wonderfully. But I really do like Midian and if I moved her I'd, well, it'd be like the end of an era. :< I do not know what to do - maybe I'll just level her clone up (oh yes, duplicate characters down to the hairstyle and everything) but if I do that then I need to, well, level her. And that'd be so much easier on a toon with access to the heirloom gear but GYAH that'd be on Lothar still (maybe) unless I was insane and trasnferred ALL OF LOTHAR. Which would be dumb. Not to mention the WAT level of that idea.

Drawing more, yeee - I hope to get something inked and COLORED soon. I need to get in the habit of finishing my artwork so that's my nearly-the-end-of-the-year resolution - to color more artwork. To take greater artistic pride in it. To do backgrounds. And most importantly? To do only what I want to do.

Comments

[faekitty.livejournal.com]

I don't know if this will help you, but i'll toss it to you. When i was weaning myself off of soda, i drank the flavored seltzer waters. Not the aspartame ones, but just the no sugar plain ones. It gave me the fizzy fix i needed, i don't think they had any sodium.

Every now and then i have soda (diet now - which yes, is horrible, but it's very rare), but i can control it much unlike what i was doing before. I had a brief issue with diet dr pepper, but that a medication issue and i just had to ride it out. It was the addiction i had a problem with, much like addiction to anything else. I don't mind having vices, but addictions of any sort have to go...well, except oxygen, water and some food.

I am a slave to this body after all!

[jateshi.livejournal.com]

I'm currently doing the flavored water beverages - Crystal Light in particular because it's the one that I actually like - and cutting my caffeine down. Five days (including yesterday) of migraines meant the doc went "Okay, have some coffee" since it's the only other thing I'd changed.

I think it was the sheer amount I was consuming. o0 At least 1k of calories right there on a high day not to mention the close to 800g of sugar just from the drinks. The Crystal Light has no sugar but the taste is something I've always liked (when mixed strong, not weak).