I sure hope she took it off first, because I know from eating those candy necklaces that you should never try to wear them after you started eating them. I can just imagine what kind of sticky mess you two made if she was still wearing it.
I used to drink a lot of soda and around the age of 25 I started to get health conscious. My biggest peave is High Fructose Corn Syrup which is the main ingredient in most sodas and even fruit joices now. HFCS is considered NATURAL since it's a corn product. I don't ever eat McDonalds and my kids are not allowed either. If you drink diet coke for about a week or two you get very used to it. http://www.saveharry.com/liquidcandy.html Coke has like 10 teaspoons of sugar in it. Add that to your coffee and see how it tastes....I bet a lot like a soda. It's just nasty...HFCS is SYRUP made from CORN....why are we drinking CORN???? Ketchup now has more CORN in it than Tomatoes. Read the labels people. http://www.westonaprice.org/motherlinda/cornsyrup.html
Reminds me of a seinfeld episode where Kramer says he "recently cut fructose completely out of my diet" ...
If you are serious about wanting to give it up, here are some tips on decreasing / ceasing from a seasoned addictions counsellor and coke addict. There are two sides to addiction: (1)habit and (2)addiction. You need to remove the habit before your use can be decreased or stopped. Measure current use Take a daily record of how much you drink per day Do it by halves Drink half a serve and tip the rest out. You still get your coke fix, but halve the intake. Replace the habits Break the routine, if you 'always have a coke when.... xyz' replace it with another drink like water or oj or coffee to break the habitual side of the addiction. Change the implement If you buy it in a can, buy it in a bottle, if you drink it out of a glass, use a mug. If you do those things, you will be: Aware of your levels of use Not prompted to use by habits Using half as much In a state of transition in terms of your use A few weeks like that and you will be able to reduce it to a minimum level and then stop if you make a decision to. There is plenty of other stuff you can do, but that's a basic framework for change with something like this.
In High school two of my friends and me made a bet to see who could go the longest without drinking any form of soft drink. The first person to drink one had to pay the other two guys $20. We would watch each other at school, but outside of school it was based on honor. It wasn’t hard for me, because I was drinking about 1 a week at the time. My best friend drinks about 8-12 a day. Well after about 3 days he finally broke and slapped $40 on the table and bought 2 cokes at lunch. He said that he couldn’t take it any more. He said he’d even been cheating, too. He had a coke before school, 2 immediately after, and several at night. Sometimes he would sneak out to his car during school hours, slouch down, and sneak a few sips. I just realized this story was the worst motivational story for your purposes so I’m going to make up some stuff now. Well it turns out coke was a gateway drug for him. He started mixing it with rum, whiskey, vodka; just whatever he could get his hands on. It got really bad. I’m talking drinking everclear and coke off strippers bad. He ended up having a pretty expensive daily coke cola habit. Finally after he hit rock bottom he took a look at his life and decided this wasn’t for him. He quit cold turkey and moved to Canada. He hasn’t had a cola in over a decade.
Its a great cleansing agent. Coke pretty much kills the rum taste. You get drunk fast (mixed 50/50) and in the morning, your insides are cleaner than you ever thought possible
They always push for mixed drinks with redbull in it in the bars here. They want to keep you up so you can drink more heh
doesnt redbull have a ton of caffeine? Thats an interesting combo a pick me up (red bull) with a sedative (alcohol). That's gotta mess you up LOL
I am sure that redbull - alcohol mix is hard on the system, it may not show now but in the future. The addictiveness of the caffiene is why they push it probably. Get you even more hooked and become alcofeinoholics or something like that.
In Thailand, the taxi drivers outside my apartment used to drink Mao Tai (Thai whisky) with Red Bull. They were often on 18 hour shift so the Red Bull kept them wired and the whisky kept them happy. Drive safely!
Yeah that was strange to see. A taxi driver walks into a store, buys a 40oz beer, gets in the car and starts driving. And those cab drivers are nuts! I read somewhere that Bangkok averages 3 traffic related deaths per day!