It all started with Hurricane Sandy...I am addicted to caffeine. I admit it. I have previously kicked the habit, but started using it again because I get chronic headaches from a car accident. Caffeine is known to help headaches...just look at the ingredients on a bottle of Excedrin migraine. I gave up soda a long time ago and the only type of caffeinated beverage I would drink is unsweetened iced tea with Sweet & Low...just one with lunch each day. I used to looooove Diet Pepsi years ago and would crave it as soon as I woke up in the morning. I have not had diet sodas in years, except for on occasion if a restaurant did not have iced tea, which was very rare.
Then recently during Hurricane Sandy my company shut down for a few days and I worked from home. The conditions were not good to go out in so I did not really leave the house for those days...but I needed caffeine, which I normally do not stock on the in the house except for making iced tea from tea bags. I do love fresh iced tea, but was jut not in the mood for it so I bought the little 7.5 ounce cans of Diet Pepsi and drank them with a straw. This was the beginning of my new addiction.
Now I think about Diet Pepsi...a lot! My company gives free soda so all day long I can go fill up a cup. Not a good situation. I think I am up to 2 or 3 a day. Not nearly as bad as I used to be, but I am drinking it starting at about 10am.
I don't know what it is about this delicious sweet fizzy drink. I now use it when I want something sweet to eat as well so that I do not eat something with calories. Diet Coke never did this to me, but there is something in Diet Pepsi that my body just looooves.
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