My Quest to Rid Myself of Soda
If you didn’t know, I am a huge soda addict. Diet Coke. Coke Zero. Diet Dr Pepper. I drink about 8 cans a day.
Well, I used to.
I recently signed up for life insurance, and part of the process involves getting bloodwork done. After going through the whole process, they send you the lab results for your record.
My results looked excellent for the most part. Good blood count. Good cholesterol. The only abnormal result was my creatinine. It was very slightly elevated.
Now, normally I wouldn’t be concerned about a study that was only slightly elevated, but there’s been some recent studies that show that chronic soda drinking can result in chronic renal failure.
This was enough to scare me. I knew it was time to put my excessive soda drinking to an end. So how did I do it? One day, I just decided to quit. I decided not to buy any soda for home, and I refused to drink soda in the house. The only time I could drink soda was out at a restaurant.
That was a month ago. So far, so good. I had some seriously bad headaches for about week after stopping cold turkey, but Tylenol and coffee helped. Now the headaches are gone, and I’m patting myself on the back for taking action. Hopefully I can continue this positive trend.
Is there anything you’ve been wanting to end in your life? Maybe now’s the time to take that step..
I’m also a huge soda addict. I don’t want to drink sodas all the time; I just associate drinking a soda as taking a break from whatever it is I’m doing. I still drink soda at work, but not buying sodas for my home has probably cut down my consumption by 60%. The problem with cutting out sodas at work is I’ll just default to coffee or junk food, which I feel isn’t an improvement.