While I don't like regular soft drinks -- honestly, they are just too sweet for me -- I have had an on-again, off-again love affair with diet cola for most of my adult life. It is a substitute for dessert, or a mid-afternoon pick-me-up, or even (true fact) sometimes a morning drink for me because I just don't like coffee, but yearn for the caffeine.
Many times, I've cut out soda for a while. It always seems to pull me back. The sweetness, the carbonation and the chill of it are a combination that's hard for me to resist.
So Virginia, these facts are really eye-opening to me. And yet difficult, because I've yet to find an easy, readily available drink that I like as much as diet cola. I do drink water (though not enough), but I still hear the soda calling.
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Well, let me be the different one in the bunch.
While I don't like regular soft drinks -- honestly, they are just too sweet for me -- I have had an on-again, off-again love affair with diet cola for most of my adult life. It is a substitute for dessert, or a mid-afternoon pick-me-up, or even (true fact) sometimes a morning drink for me because I just don't like coffee, but yearn for the caffeine.
Many times, I've cut out soda for a while. It always seems to pull me back. The sweetness, the carbonation and the chill of it are a combination that's hard for me to resist.
So Virginia, these facts are really eye-opening to me. And yet difficult, because I've yet to find an easy, readily available drink that I like as much as diet cola. I do drink water (though not enough), but I still hear the soda calling.
Sigh. More work for me to do here, clearly.
February 19, 2009 - 9:43amThis Comment
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