Diet Coke Addiction

It really is an addiction.  :(

I started the day with the full intention of this being the day that I seriously began the process of weaning myself off of diet coke.  No really I was serious.  Removing one per day and then another and then another until I was no longer "hooked" on the stuff.  So the mid-afternoon soda was the one to go first or so I thought.

The more I read, the more I see, the more I hear about how bad aspartame is the more I want to drop this habit.  Our video in The Daniel Plan program, which we've watched for 2 weeks now, makes it clear how bad this stuff is.  

And then 3:30 pm came and this happened.  A distraction, a moment to get away from my desk, being thirsty, or just plain addiction.  Sad but true.

Oh I've talked about it more times than I can count.

On the way home, I was a bit disappointed in myself for caving in to the afternoon diet coke.  Failure - that's what I thought.

And then I realized the day is not over yet.  I can still eliminate a normal diet coke.

And then this happened.  Yep, water with dinner.  As we were getting dinner on the table Daniel asked me if I wanted him to get me a drink out of the garage refrigerator.  Yes, get me a bottle of water.

And then time stood still.

What?

Water?

Yes a bottle of water.  And so I replaced the dinner time diet coke with a bottle of water.

Maybe a diet coke-less dinner is a better accountablility choice than the mid-afternoon challenge.

We'll see how this goes.  Can it be done slowly or is cold turkey better?  I don't know.