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Re: My fight against caffeine.
« Reply #75 on: September 06, 2012, 05:34:06 am »

I've finally cut soda out of my diet completely. And I can echo Dogstile, cold turkey is not the way to go. You will be irritable and have constant headaches. Now I drink unsweetened tea once a day, sometimes twice, and my body seems to be adjusting to the lower caffeine intake.
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« Reply #76 on: September 06, 2012, 12:55:14 pm »

If you're still going, I fully recommend you don't quit cold turkey. I did that and it was horrible, my head was hurting constantly, I was angry at everything, my hands were shaky and I was having nightmares all the time, which just made me angrier. It was awful, doable, but awful.
I did the cold turkey bit already, but to be fair, alcohol was harder. I'm allowing myself a couple of pops a week, but I mostly limit it to only when I eat at a restaurant. I can happily go a whole week+ with no pop. It's analogous to my battle with alcohol; I went cold turkey after a severe alcohol addiction, and now I allow myself a couple of drinks every now and again, and my addiction to that hasn't flared up, either.
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« Reply #77 on: October 05, 2012, 11:34:59 pm »

Because it's my thread, I'll necro it.

I had a 44oz Dew today, because my day was fucklong. Seriously.

Anyway, I took a drink, and all was normal. The second mouthful, however, tasted like a steaming pile of boiled ass and livers, gave me terrible heartburn, and made me nauseated. Pretty sure that my brain and stomach shared a "WTF!?" moment and rebelled against me.
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Re: My fight against caffeine.
« Reply #78 on: October 06, 2012, 12:22:30 am »

Because it's my thread, I'll necro it.

I had a 44oz Dew today, because my day was fucklong. Seriously.

Anyway, I took a drink, and all was normal. The second mouthful, however, tasted like a steaming pile of boiled ass and livers, gave me terrible heartburn, and made me nauseated. Pretty sure that my brain and stomach shared a "WTF!?" moment and rebelled against me.


I usually drink a 1.25 liter (42 oz) soda at work every day. Then I drink about 3-5 cans of soda when I get home, because I'm used to drinking beer, and now I can't, so I drink soda like it's going out of style. So, you're doing good. :P
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« Reply #79 on: October 06, 2012, 12:29:39 am »

Well, the last pop I had was a roughly 8oz cherry coke during my "date" on wednesday. Before that, it was a 12oz dew on saturday. I have roughly one normal sized pop every three to four days, nowadays.

I wound up powering through that 44oz-er, by the way. It feels like blurgh in my stomach.
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« Reply #80 on: October 06, 2012, 12:49:58 am »

Yeah, usually I wake up and my throat feels scorched from the acid in the soda, but I don't care because I've done much worse to myself. I just worry about my teeth.
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« Reply #81 on: October 06, 2012, 01:00:25 am »

I stick to 335mLs of Coke or Ginger Ale, that works better. Your pop consumptions osund unhealthy.
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« Reply #82 on: October 06, 2012, 01:03:32 am »

I stick to 335mLs of Coke or Ginger Ale, that works better. Your pop consumptions osund unhealthy.
For reference, 44oz is 1301ml.
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« Reply #83 on: October 06, 2012, 01:05:57 am »

So I drink like...

2188ml a day. Or about two thousand calories worth of soda a day.
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« Reply #84 on: October 06, 2012, 01:08:11 am »

So I drink like...

2188ml a day. Or about two thousand calories worth of soda a day.
HANS, Y U NO JIGGLYPUFF!?
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« Reply #85 on: October 06, 2012, 01:20:02 am »

So I drink like...

2188ml a day. Or about two thousand calories worth of soda a day.
HANS, Y U NO JIGGLYPUFF!?


Cocaine.

But seriously, I have the metabolism of a severely overactive shrew. I get hungry while I'm eating.
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« Reply #86 on: October 06, 2012, 01:34:04 am »

So I drink like...

2188ml a day. Or about two thousand calories worth of soda a day.
HANS, Y U NO JIGGLYPUFF!?


Cocaine.

But seriously, I have the metabolism of a severely overactive shrew. I get hungry while I'm eating.
How the...?? I can pack away the food like nobody's business, but damn, bro.
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« Reply #87 on: October 06, 2012, 08:38:32 pm »

become an alcoholic!
Been there, done that, got over it cold turkey. Did the same with caffeine, and now this is just kind of an ongoing journalish-thing with a "whenever I post" updating schedule.

Also, I had an energy drink today (Cherry NOS). Heartburn again. Didn't get the blurgh feeling that I got from the dew.
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« Reply #88 on: October 06, 2012, 08:42:47 pm »

become an alcoholic!
Been there, done that, got over it cold turkey. Did the same with caffeine, and now this is just kind of an ongoing journalish-thing with a "whenever I post" updating schedule.
become some sort of addict to something!

aside from facepunching, that is.
Well, I'm not going to give that up.
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« Reply #89 on: October 06, 2012, 09:04:31 pm »

...The Watchmen would have been a lot different with me as Rorschach. For starters, I would've immediately turned the Comedian into meat-paste, my friends' opinion of me be damned.
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