i gave up diet coke when i was pregnant because of the caffine and aspertame. i switched to diet rite pure zero. it's caffine free and made with splenda. i now prefer it. if either of those 2 were an issue you may want to try it. ok, back to lurking now. much love.

That is a LOT of diet coke. I think you will see a huge difference in how you feel when you get that our of your system. My girlfriend was getting awful leg pains and the doc told her to quit diet coke. She did and the pain went away.

But wow, going off diet coke and starbucks at the same time is a huge step! Good luck.

Color me impressed -- I know how hard it is. I managed to give up a 4-5x week Starbucks habit -- now I actually prefer my own homebrew. Coffeemate makes a Carmel creamer that is out of this world if you're missing that flavor!

I have also limited myself to one diet coke a day, at lunch.

Keep it up, girl! It really makes a difference in how I feel to not have that much junk in my system anymore. I hope it works well for you, too!

Giving up the starbucks can be hard. I had a 5 day a week Jamba Juice habit when I worked downtown. You'd think smoothies are healthy... Hells no.

I have to agree with Tony on the diet Coke thing. Try and keep yourself off that. There have been a few recent studies that your body reacts to artificial sweeteners worse than normal sugar. It's kind of reacting to how sweet it tastes. If you're interested I'll find you articles.

If you want soda, get mini cans of real stuff, drink one a day over a lot of ice. That seems to help me. Also, I've found that keeping lemonade in the house has helped me keep off the soda. I fill a large glass with half ice and cover that ice with water, then add in the lemonade. It's still sweet and tastes good but has a lot less calories.

You can doooo it!

I'm feeling your pain. I'm on DAY FOUR of no coke. Not diet coke...hells, no, I love me the real thing. But I was guzzling way too much of it.

So I'm twitching right beside you and my kids are trying to give me up for adoption.

I only wish I had a Starbucks near me to wallow my pitiful arse in. Sometimes this country living freaking sucks.

Good luck to you, friend. I'm twitching for you. Er, rooting for ya.

Going off/or limiting caffeine consumpion can be tricky. I'll be sending happy, cheerful, energized thoughts your way!

I gave up the Pepsi for Lent. I've not had one since February 5th.

I feel your pain. I did it for Lent, but also because I'm trying to live the healthier life.

I gave up cigarettes too. YEAH me!

I don't have a StarBucks addiction (only because there isn't a SB close to where I live) but I thought about and then discarded the idea of giving up my coffee. Really. I had a conversation with myself, "I should give up coffee for Lent. Nnnnnnnoooooooo! But it's suppose to be a sacrifice. But not my coffee."

Good luck with the diet Coke and Starbucks thing!

I'm trying to cut back on the sodie pop, too. For me it's Real Coke. I've stupidly switched to Diet Coke, but damn, that shit is all chemicals.

I don't got to Starbucks every day, and what is this Drive Thru of which you speak???? Here in NJ we are forced to walk in. Cruel.

I usually get a skim cappuccino and use one sugar in the raw. not too bad calorie wise. Just DON'T order their "Skinny" Lattes with the sugar free syrup. They are JANKY.

I'm right there with you.... I gave up my double shot caramel latte at Dunkin's a few weeks ago... gave up the soda... gave up most sugar... I felt like a champ the first few days - then the addiction withdrawl started - I made it through and so can you, because if I can do it - then YOU certainly can. Why? Because when it comes to will power I not only have NONE, I think I'm operating in the negative (I'm living proof it's possible).

Good luck! xoxo

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD. That comment up above me from Type little a? SHE SAID JANKY. I say that all the time and my husband swears it isn't a real word and that I just made it up. I now have proof. Oh, how I love the internet.

The reason I am in your comment section has nothing to do with confirming that I am right and he is wrong, though. I just had to ask what the heck "upside down" is in your carmel macchiato? I love carmel macchiatos, but have never heard of this new-fangled upside down business.

I love you guys.

Karly, upside just means that they pour the espresso before they pour the milk, because normally, the add the shot AFTER they add the milk so its' all up on the top instead of mixed in with the milk.

Did that make any sense? Do I need to draw an example in paint? Because I WILL.

Once I gave up sugar for five months. (It was AMAZING how good I felt - and so much less aggressive... GRRR.) Anyway, the first three days you would have thought I was giving up heroin. I literally stood in front of my open kitchen cabinets yelling,

"SUGAAAAAAAARRRRRR!!!"

It was awful.

Also - you should come see me today.

xo,
J

I'm convinced diet coke is the devil. My entire family has weird health problems and they all drink diet coke and LOTS of it. Cases per week. The skinny people I see all the time? Drink REGULAR coke - but in small amounts. Like one per day at most.

I am right there with you, sister. I've cut back on the diet cherry cokes to just one a day, if that, and it.is.pure.torture. As for the coffee.....I lurve me a janky skinny vanilla latte. A-ddicted.

That's great! Diet Soda = Poison!

You should get in touch with Loralee from Loralee's Looney Tunes. She's kickin' the Coke habit, as well, and I think she's been feeling a little twitchy, so maybe you two could comisserate.

good luck!

Y!!!!
You can SO. DO. THIS. You will be amazed at how you will feel in a few weeks.

I have been off caffiene for 16+ years. If I have a diet sodie water, I drink some kind of Diet Rite. They make several delicious flavors. Limit myself to one a day.....this from a gal who could easily drink 6-7 canned drinks a day, since work provided free drinks in the fridge. Now I drink lots of green tea and flavored teas over lots of good ice and that seems to help.

Hang. In. There. You are having withdrawals and once it passes, it will be worth it!!!!!!!

Just don't do what I did:
Trade a diet coke addiction for a Tasti Delight addiction...If you do not know what Tasti Delight is, consider yourself blessed.

I quit diet coke January 2007 and have been off of it ever since (sounds like an addict, eh?). Without changing anything else in my diet, I lost 12 lbs (and that's weighing in from my doctor's, at my yearly check-up last week). Besides that, for 5 years since I had my last son via c-section, I've had chronic pelvic pain that I couldn't seem to get diagnosed even after CAT scans, pelvic ultrasounds and various doctors. I SWEAR, since I stopped drinking dt. coke last year, I rarely get any pelvic pain anymore. Coincidence? You be the judge...I'm sticking to my unsweeted ice tea w/ lemon. Love your blog Y, your honesty rocks!

I started drinking the caffeine-free Diet Coke before I got knocked up. I have one or two a week and that satisfies me.

I'm not a huge Starbucks fancy-coffee fan - I like my coffee to taste like cream and coffee only - but I still have two cups of my own blend (starbucks French Roast beans and Dunkin Donuts beans) with lotsa half-n-half.

Or at least I did, until coffee started making me sick when I got preggers. Oh, how it has me boo-hooing. I think I miss the way the mug feels in my hand the most.

OMG, Y! I love me some of, well, all of it!

Hang in there!

P.S. I think I NEED an illustration of the 'upside down' machiatto because sometimes the baristas are all, 'you mean a vanilla latte with carmel'...no that is $.50 more than a machiatto bitches, not that I am counting. I need this diagram you speak of to hand to my baristas.

Though I don't have the 7 days a week Starbucks habit, I do love it. I'm more the diet Coke fiend. I have a terrible habit and I need to stop. It's so hard to stop. So good luck to you, you can do it! :)

I think I can picture it, but I won't object if you choose to draw me a picture. I need to start hanging out at my local Starbucks so I can learn all these fancy ways of making coffee.

I have never written here before but I have to say I love what you write and how you write it. I have to agree about the diet coke being a bad thing......but you might want to switch to my drug of choice, Diet Pepsi. I could probably go through a 12 pack a day if I didn't watch it. My way of thinking is that it is made with water too right? and water is supposed to be good for you.

I have never written here before but I have to say I love what you write and how you write it. I have to agree about the diet coke being a bad thing......but you might want to switch to my drug of choice, Diet Pepsi. I could probably go through a 12 pack a day if I didn't watch it. My way of thinking is that it is made with water too right? and water is supposed to be good for you.

I go back and forth on the caffeine/diet sodas issue 'cause I feel like crap lately. Tired and moody all the time. I've managed to get myself down to 12 oz of soda per day and only 8 oz of coffee so that's huge progress. The big challenge is the artificial sweeteners 'cause after ten years of it, it's hard to stop.

I think I could do it, but like you... I just don't wanna!

I got my Starbucks down from a must-have to a occasional treat, but I had to move to China to do it. Good luck, Y!

Took me forever to figure out The Diet Coke was causing my headaches. Turns out I am allergic to aspertame. Its tough to give up The Diet Coke. Good luck!

I've been trying to lay off the soda too!! But see, my problem was with the regular soda and it hasn't helped the diabetes ONE BIT. :/ So I quit.

I hope you start feeling tons better though!!! It's nice to be and feel healthy. :D

OMG. I am sooooo addicted to Starbucks. I actually go out of my way to shop where there is one in the vacinity. I am thinking of going to one right now…and get the most awesomest cupcakes evea along with my macchiato!

I gave up regular Coke for almost two weeks. It was hell. Never again. I do drink much less though.

Luckily, I've never really caught on to the Starbucks thing.

I don't know if it is going to make you feel better, but I hope it does. If it makes you feel better or gives you hope, my husband lost about 20 lbs. when he gave up Coke.

I gave up soda and fast food a couple of weeks ago (I have had a few slips ups on a road trip I took...) and I cannot tell you what a difference it has made. I no longer need naps and the 10 hours of sleep I was getting every night. I have also lost about 3 pounds...which is great considering I did not have to do anything else but stop eating crap. I don't watch what I eat, really, just not fast food (that I LOVE).

I want to say how proud of you I am, but that is weird because I don't really know you...so I guess, I am proud of us. Go Team.

PS Diet Coke does kill...weed is better for you.

Yo, that's rough, but hang in there. Mama and I have done that, and it's true, you end up with more energy, but getting decaffed is rough. We actually went to half-caf, and then to quarter-caf, where we stayed. If we feel like we need an extra wake up in the morning, we go to half-caf. Also, when we were riding our bikes to work, I had a lot more energy. Again, it was the same thing--I was more fatigued at first, but after a week or so, I had more energy. Same for Mama. You don't have to go to that extreme, but a daily morning walk might have the same effect. Anyway, dropping the DC and the Starbucks is good. Hang in there. It will get better.

That's great news! I just laid off diet coke two days ago, and man can I feel it. They are now saying it is super bad healthwise. I know that shit must be addictive too, because with my first pregnancy, I gave up smoking and soda, and still - seven months into that bun in the oven, it was the soda isle that gave me cravings and not the cigarettes behind the lock box.

Also? When I heard diet coke was bad for me, I straight up wanted to 'panic chug' - just like when people would tell me how bad cigarettes were.

Hold me. We'll get through it.

I feel your pain. I gave up Diet Mountain Dew a few months ago - well, I switched to Caffeine-Free- and it wasn't easy. But I think it made a real difference in my complexion, of all things. That is the ONLY thing I have changed in my diet and my complexion is flawless and gorgeous. Try the Caffeine-Free stuff; it honestly tastes about the same. Or give it up completely if you can - it has to be better for you! Good luck.

Oh I am so with you on this one. I have a huge pepsi addiction. I also love my mocha's. You can do it. I'm trying but it is a bitch! I bought those little mini 8 oz cans of pepsi, and I allow myself one a day. I count down the minutes until it is treat time. Sick I know. Good luck!

My mom is convinced that my aunt's fibromyalgia was caused by all the diet soda and artificial sweetner consumes. She won't quit drinking it, though, not even to prove my mom wrong (or right). Congrats on your progress so far!

I have hypothyroid and I gave up coke for my first pregnancy, then tried to stay off it (with occasional slip ups, let's call them "treats") and recently bought some cans of it. I have to say that I feel more "myself" on coke, and more motivated, and more patient with the kids, I just don't know how to kick it. There hasn't been any in the house for 2 days and I'm eating everything in sight but it's not hitting the spot. On a bad day, I drink a coke and feel myself relax as if I just drank some booze or started a cigarette. sheesh!

I don't know if I could give up the Diet Coke. :)

Kudos to you!

xo

I stopped drinking soda, for the most part, about 8 years ago because I was too cheap to buy it. But when I moved in with the Boy, a certified soda maniac, I was off the wagon. Then I starting getting this horrible heartburn... evil Diet Coke. How I once loved ye and now, you hurt me when I drink even the tiniest bit.

At least it wasn't difficult the second time around.

I gave up diet coke when I got pregnant, and cut back from 6 cups of coffee a day to 1 or 2. It wasn't pretty for awhile there.
But ...
It's been 8 months now and though I still need the morning coffee I can live without Diet Coke. I still have it occassionally, but not obsessively.
Good for you!
As for thyroid stuff - I also have a thyroid problem and sometimes the weirdest things affect it - so maybe cutting down on the diet coke will help.

I am trying to give up chai. Worked over the summer when it was hot, but fell off the wagon in the fall. Oh well.

Good for you! Its tough to do. Lord knows I've tried a million times and still am not perfect.

I'm with marriage-101 and Dani though ... If you're absolutely are dying for some soda, have just a little bit of regular instead. Soda is bad, but at least your body knows what to do with the regular stuff. Plus you can't trick yourself with the whole O calories thing :)

And nice coffee cup! I have the same one!

I am in such a similar boat! I stopped the 2, 2 liters a day of coke zero, but I would sneak trips to McDs just to get a big, fat diet coke at least 4 days a week (loading up two toddlers to go out, mind you)! I know it's wrong, but I lOVE IT. I have recently stopped doing that too and only have one if we are all out and about. Which is, Not. Very. Often. I have started a low carb diet too, so I feel your pain girl!

Congrats to you on giving up the diet coke. I know for a while i was on a few of them a day but really havent been craving them lately. I was on a fresca kick when i was pregnant and was on a diet mountain dew after that pregnancy ended! I wish you the best.

Well, I guess if YOU can do it... so can I! I've given up all KINDS of stuff before for lent, but if I even THOUGHT of giving up diet coke, I broke out in a cold sweat! I swear one of these days they'll prove it's addictive! I'm addicted!! But, if you can quit, then I can too... right? I've tried to switch to Diet Rite, but I just can't handle it. Hubby and I are going away for our anniversary this weekend, so AFTER that... I'll attempt to join you in quittin the DC!! :O)

Diet Coke has aspartame in it! Which is a carcinogen! Also known as a cancer-causing agent! I love exclamation points!

But no really, that s*** is really not good for you, so goon on ya for giving it up, and don't go back!

I've cut down my Red Bull and Diet Coke comsumption this week but, LORD!!!! the headaches are making me weep.

So many of my very-most favorite bloggerettes are giving up the D.C. I wish you all well. And can I just say with all the talk of not drinking Diet Coke, I totally am in the mood for Diet Coke and I really don't like Diet Coke?

Dammit.

First: WHO THE HELL EATS CREAM OF WHEAT? Nastayyy!
Second: You should call me on that phone. You know. I like calls.
Third: My MIL gave up the diet coke (for awhile) and a lot of her weird health issues did go away. I think I sounded a lot like Tony on that one.
Fourth: SEVEN DAYS A WEEK?
Fifth: I recently cut back on those mini-cans of coke (I'd do one a day or every other)...but replaced it with a tiny mug of hot tea.
Sixth: I hope none of that has raw egg in it.

I just thought I'd share my genius with you. I looked at the picture and thought to myself, "Two phones? That looks like a calculator."

We were dependant on Starbucks too...until we got the Keurig (Kohl's on sale!+30%off!!)! You can get K-cups on Amazon and it's only like 0.50 a cup and we use the good caramel creamer for the hubby and the cinnamon for me-D-Lish!! There are even hot chocholate cups for the kids,er and us too!

I'm addicted to TaB. Yes, they still market it on this side of the Mississippi. Shocked and thrilled me because some of my fondest memories from childhood are stealing my mom's TaBs.

I know, I know.... :D

Good for you, Y! You can do this. I'm glad you're already feeling better. It'll be hard for the first little while, but after a month or two you won't even miss it.

I adore your response to Pighunter about the beer! Haha. Wow, decaffienating and desugaring at the same time. I'm impressed. I've heard one starts feeling incredible after about a month! Good Luck!

Hum, good for you girl!

I'm down to 1 can of diet coke per day and 1 tall skim latte only on the days that I'm working.....

It's hard as hell, I know...

Well hello!!! Finally! No more Starbucks no more diet cokes... Just water and green tea! In about a month you will feel reborn and 20 pounds will have disappeared without a trace .....

Go girl!

OK, I am not blog-jacking, but I really want more info on how you feel better giving up the Diet Coke. I love DC, but feel like crap a lot of the time. I drink a lot of it.

I gave up caffeine (and soda) completely a few years ago for health reasons. I went from drinking Mt. Dew and coffee like it was my job, to quitting cold turkey. Honestly, I feel worlds better now than I ever did drinking all that caffeine. Sure, it gave me a boost, but when the caffeine wore off, I would crash and feel overwhelming tired, to the point where I was likely to just doze off wherever I was and whatever I was doing. I still go back to caff coffee every now and then, but ultimately I feel better without it.

Good luck, Y! I'm sure you'll feel better :)

I think they put crack in Diet Coke....why else would everyone have so much trouble quitting?

I am totally stealing "JANKY".

Go Y! I hope this helps. (hugs it out)

Starbucks coffee sucks anyhow. You're better off without it. Anytime I've had it, it tasted either over roasted or burnt and was waaayyy too expensive. Even if it had tasted good it would have been too costly.

See what they're starting in Seattle? Buck a cup, free refills? Feckers.

Bossy is grateful she never fell into the soda habit. Bubbles, you know, fart belch. On the other hand she never fell into any habits pertaining to liquid, which leaves Bossy quite parched and pruney. That's Bossy crawling through a desert near you, going, "Must. Find. Water."

just got back from the grocery store and did not buy any cola product.

solidarity, sista!

I gave up Coca Cola classic on January 3rd. I went close to a month without it-it was one of the hardest things to do with the whole weight loss thing. I then had some one day and it tasted gross so I know I'm done with it.

I too have given up Starbucks for the most part. I have one maybe every two weeks, if that.

I have noticed a huge difference in how I feel as well as beverage cravings.

Congrats on giving up the coffee and coke. My husband and I gave them up and we noticed a big improvement.

oh starbucks (caramel!?) and diet coke? oui. you'll feel sooo much better off of both of those :) way to go!

Hang in there, girl! I know how difficult it is to give up vices. It took me 10 years to quit smoking for good. And it will probably take another 10 to give up my rootbeer soda addiction. I'm such a kid at heart.

And the PigHunter sounds WAY too much like my husband. When I gripe about a belly ache, he says, "It's the gol' darn rootbeer, duh!"

:)

Hello there my dear,

I wish I could wave a magic wand and make all of the weight melt off my body....I've been wishing that for months. I know how you are feeling about being sluggish, unhappy, tired, depressed, and every other feeling in between. I was living in a "funk" for months and it just seemed like all of the weight I had worked so hard to lose was creaping back on. My lowest weight in my early age of 20's was 215-220 and I felt like I was skinny girl! I December 2007, I weight in at 267 and I felt like a whale! I was depressed and scared and felt all alone in the "big" world. My coat didn't fit, I was hiding behind my scarf....as pretty as it was, and I was so unhappy! I couldn't fit in to any of my clothes and I too, had one of those moments where you contemplated throwing out all of my "skinny" clothes- but, financially, I couldn't afford to go out and buy new "fat" clothes. So, I started my mission all over again one month ago tomorrow, and, I've already lost 13.2 pounds in 4 weeks. I had to wrap my head around the idea of losing weight again and I couldn't lose the weight until I was ready to accept that I was fat. I stood in the clothing store dressing room on my 30th Bday and I sobbed for an hour. I looked at my cellulite, white, chunky, wobbly body and I thought "I shouldn't be here" and "how did I get here"....well, I tried to attribute it to being stressed, to being sick...and I tried to conjure up some weird illness in my brain....I couldn't figure out why I wanted myself to be sick- but, I thought "well, if I'm sick, then it makes it easier to accept that I gained all this weight". But, then, I had that "AHA" moment in the dressing room....the trips to McD's and eating two meals at once, the late night binges in the kitchen, the hiding of bags of chips and dip from my spouse, the mouthfuls of whip cream, the double amounts of dinner and everything else....were decisions and choice I made. I opened my mouth, I swallowed...and at the time, I thought I loved the feeling. I was so wrong. I was so unhappy and I was only comforting myself.

So, for all of the times I've logged on to this site and all of the times I've looked to you for inspiration, I thought you might need my ABC's of dieting for inspiration. I wrote this on my blog the other day, and I wanted to share this with you. I've copied my to a Word document and I've posted it up on my fridge and also on my wall in my work cubicle...along with the picture on my blog of when I was at my heaviest weight, 267.

I know we don't know each other, and I know we all have our stories, but, I hope this helps you in some small way today!

Chin up!

Girl on a Missions' ABC's of dieting:

A- Accountability is the key to success
B- Believe in yourself
C- Care about your self esteem, image, and confidence
D- Dream about a skinny you
E- Express yourself daily about how you are feeling
F- Focus on your goals
G- Give yourself a pat on the back every day
H- Happiness is in you- you just need to find it
I- Inspire yourself daily
J- Justify your actions and move forward
K- Keep going, don't stop now!
L- Love yourself
M- Manage your time
N- Nurse your wounds and get back up on the wagon
O- Organize your life
P- Pursue your dreams and never give up
Q- Quest for the best, you deserve it!
R- Relish the journey
S- Simplicity is the key
T- Talk about your problems and how you are feeling
U- Unite with your inner-self and find your true beauty
V- Vent and write down your thoughts
W- Walk and be active daily
X- Xerox pictures of your 'former' self and place them on the fridge
Y- Yearn for a life of happiness and longevity
Z- Zero tolerance for failure!

A- Accountability is the key to success
B- Believe in yourself
C- Care about your self esteem, image, and confidence
D- Dream about a skinny you
E- Express yourself daily about how you are feeling
F- Focus on your goals
G- Give yourself a pat on the back every day
H- Happiness is in you- you just need to find it
I- Inspire yourself daily
J- Justify your actions and move forward
K- Keep going, don't stop now!
L- Love yourself
M- Manage your time
N- Nurse your wounds and get back up on the wagon
O- Organize your life
P- Pursue your dreams and never give up
Q- Quest for the best, you deserve it!
R- Relish the journey
S- Simplicity is the key
T- Talk about your problems and how you are feeling
U- Unite with your inner-self and find your true beauty
V- Vent and write down your thoughts
W- Walk and be active daily
X- Xerox pictures of your 'former' self and place them on the fridge
Y- Yearn for a life of happiness and longevity
Z- Zero tolerance for failure!

Whoops, sorry for adding it two times...I'm not the best at cut and paste :)

LOL. Diet coke and starbucks are the DEVIL! Good luck- i know it's not the same AT ALL (I gave up coke too) but green tea is full of antioxidants and has a good amount of caffeine. I take mine with honey and lemon.

Wow Y - you rock for trying to shake both those monkeys off your back at the same time. I finished my last diet coke a couple of days ago. After hearing about the elevated risk of heart disease if you drink diet soda and knowing my blood pressure is high every time I go to the doctor's I figured it was time to break up. I really miss it though. *sniff*

I just can't kick all of my bad habits at the same time.

I'll just sit her and hum loudly to myself about the fact that diet soda is wrong.

A few years ago I had started getiing away from regular cola's and switched to diet. I also switched to splenda and other apertame sweetners. After about a year of this I began having terrible trouble with my eye's. Sometimes the hurt so bad I just wished I could pluck them out. Not only that my eye's hurt but I was tired and ached all over. I got off the artificial sweetners, went through horrible withdrawals and soon founf myself feeling soo much better. Right now you need to make water your new best friend! Hang in there!

Stay off the SPLENDA! And all those artificial sweeteners. Those things are POISON. Diet coke and all the rest of thoes diet drinks are worse than cigarettes. So hard to quit, but will kill you if you don't.

I gave up diet coke 14 months ago. It's tough, but I and my purse feel better for it. Good luck.

i've started ordering mistos at starbucks...which are both better for my budget AND my waistline ;) i highly recommend

My favorite quote from Skinny Bitch (the book):

"when you see the words 'no-fat, lo-fat, fat-free, lo-cal, calorie-free' replace them in your mind with these words: 'CHEMICAL SHITSTORM'"

It's so true. Putting loads of chemicals in will only result in horrific results...our bodies just aren't made for them!

hey!!!! Lookee there! I have me that coffee mug to!

lurve it! : )

I have a story for you:

When I lived down south, I worked at a big place (AT&T) and my cubicle was right by the cafeteria. Being down south, they always laid out fresh lemons to put into your Iced Tea, this being The South and all.

This also being the South, my Mug held 2 liters. Yeah, Big Gulp and then some. So, the CoCola being dirt cheap and the mug being big, and I loved putting fresh lemons into it.. I got hooked on CoCola. Morning, noon and night did I drink it. Literally.

Lets shift to New York City, caffeine addiction well in place. Long story short.. 10 cups of coffee a day, 3 venti mocha breve - minimum. Couldnt go to sleep without a visit to Starbux.

The weekend caffeine headaches were killer. Lets not discuss the weight gain.

It took living in the Bay Area and drinking Peets daily was I diagnosed with caffeine poisoning after some hypertensive episodes. Not pretty. So, Im down to decaf and even then two cups a day. Maximum.

Funny thing.. every time I roll down South.. I have to have a CoCola. Just something about living Down South.