Diet Drink Detox

A play by play of my detox. Is it too much info for you? Sorry.


9:30 a.m. Sunday: decided not to buy any more diet coke/pepsi and to break the habit when my supply ran out

7:30 a.m. Monday: decided to just have one diet coke each morning until they are all gone; should be gone mid-weekend

7:30 a.m. Wednesday: had last diet coke of my life, but did not realize it would be the last; I didn’t even say goodbye

7:30 a.m. Thursday: didn’t start the day with my usual diet coke, but thought I would wait and see if I could stretch the time in between last coke to next coke; decided I would have it mid-morning instead

Midmorning Thursday: was too busy to think about diet coke

2:30 p.m. Thursday: headache began, but had forgotten about the lack of diet coke and thought it was stress-related, rather than caffeine

3:15 p.m. Thursday: went to the gym to cycle, hoping the distraction would clear up the headache

4:15 p.m. Thursday: done at the gym, but headache had gotten worse

4:30 p.m. Thursday: realized headache was because of the lack of caffeine; decided that since I had already 

dealt with it a couple of hours, I would just power through and not drink any more diet cokes

5:15 p.m. Thursday: left work to head to local gym for Body Pump (still using my free week pass)

5:45 p.m. Thursday: thought that when you have a headache, weight lifting is the worst form of exercise to be doing

7 p.m. Thursday: arrived home from gym and showered, headache was still horrible, but kept forgetting to take medicine

8 p.m. Thursday: remembered to finally take some extra strength Tylenol

8:30  p.m. Thursday: felt some relief

10:30 p.m. Thursday: went to bed with headache back in full force, couldn’t fall asleep

12:30 a.m. Friday: woke up to text message from stupid cell phone company, headache still raging

12:30 a.m.-6:30 a.m. Friday: slept fitfully, waking repeatedly; shouldn’t a lack of caffeine in my system help me sleep better?

7:30 a.m. Friday: woke with no headache; prepared breakfast and stared mournfully at one diet coke and one diet pepsi left in the fridge

8:30 a.m. Friday: went to work and told Judy K. about my impromptu ditching of the diet drinks; commiserated with her about some foods tasting better with soda

9:30 a.m. Friday: felt sad about no longer drinking diet coke; began thinking about wanting to go out to lunch to mourn my friend (diet drinks), but made plans to walk with Monica outside in the sunshine during lunch hour instead

10:30 a.m. Friday: couldn’t stop thinking about eating lunch out; ate snack instead

12 p.m. Friday: decided I was being stupid about wanting to eat lunch out and ate the lunch I brought from home, like a good girl

3 p.m. Friday: caved under self-imposed faux-pressure to drink something besides water; went to vending to get caffeine-free Sprite

3:15 p.m. Friday: realized that Sprite has 140 calories in one can! You can bet I won't be doing that again. That's more than what's in a light beer!

7:30 a.m. Saturday: 72 hours caffiene free and slept like a baby.

It really was not bad at all!  Here's hoping it helps with these last 5.5 pounds!