BG Intervention?

[Tricen]

Fruit juice has some pretty high sugar content, albeit natural, it's till a lot. So, if you're trying to kick the sugar intake, read labels of fruit juices.

[Colenzo]

drink water noob

[Pirian]

What about sparkling fruit juices? They have bubbles and taste. :D

I actually take club soda and mix it half and half in a glass with <insert random juice here>. Gives me my carbonation fix and it takes the edge off the normally way too sweet juices.


I use to start every day in HS with a cherry pepsi to wake me up, lol. Halfway through junior year I stopped drinking soda cold turkey though and started eating breakfast in order to wake me up. I had pretty bad caffeine headaches for about a week but I have that thing people keep talking about ...uhh, willpower, yeah that's it. Every now and again I'll have a soda if that's all my friends have, or if I'm drinking some random mix drink that happens to have soda or other caffeine drinks (Why, hello there jager-bombs), but mostly I'll go months between my caffeine intakes.

[Apelila]

So I had a worse problem than this in High School as far as a caffeine dependency:

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You could never take a soda into class but none of the teachers said shit about this. I spent most of my senior year always sucking on one of these things. This plus I worked at a Pizza Hut and the Managers didn't say anything about me filling my cup from the fountain every other run meant I was wired all the fucking time.

As others have said just cut back. Make the conscious decision to drink water instead of soda every so often, drink orange juice or milk instead. Someone mentioned Juicy Juice stay the fuck away from that shit its Koolaid made with condensed fruit juice instead of water.

Just remember that replacing soda with anything other than water will be more expensive. If there was anything healthy that had the same addictive properties as caffeine man kind would have become co dependent on it centuries ago.

[Killgannon]

i love diet orange soda

who loves diet orange soda?

i hope im not wooshing you lol

to whomever posted that honest tea, where can you find those? ive never seen them around where i live (indianapolis)

[Alleya]

STOP IT!

[Pirian]

who loves diet orange soda?

i hope im not wooshing you lol

to whomever posted that honest tea, where can you find those? ive never seen them around where i live (indianapolis)

http://6.media.tumblr.com/KuL1CnoEaq...DC3xo1_500.jpg

[MisterBob]

Switching Soda for Iced Tea is just switching one vice for another, it isn't doing you any good.

[Jer]

The first part of college I drank a lot of Mountain Dew. I mean, A LOT. Part of it was because the residence halls didn't take proper care of the plumbing, so anybody who wanted to stay healthy didn't drink the water. The food courts to acquire other beverages shut down at like 8 or 9, which is usually a long time before most of us would hit the sack. It was also just cheaper than alternatives like juice. I think at the time, I'd pay $3.50 for a 24 pack across the street. After I moved out of there, I stopped drinking it completely. For the next week, you would have thought I was quitting heroin. Terrible migraines, sweats, inability to sleep or eat, it was terrible. I can't even drink it now though, once in a while I'll pick up a can, and it just upsets my stomach to hell.

[Qalbert]

I know a guy who has for breakfast every day without fail:
3 bowls of frosted flakes, with mountain dew instead of milk

[wipers]

How about hard liquor it is slightly better than cola.

[AoE]

I drink this stuff. I used to be big on carbonated stuff too, then one day I was like fuck it, I need to eat healthier. Since I loved juice to begin with, whenever I had a craving, I'd just have some tropicana orange juice. I would get those one liter cartons though since I felt like I was getting ripped off drinking the 8oz(or is it 16oz?) bottles. After watching this asian dude I had a class with bring in green tea everyday, I figured I'd try out a couple of different brands and settled on Turkey Hill green tea. It's not really as sweet as the Arizona brand but it does the trick for me and helps me get through the day.

Only caffeine intake I have comes from coffee and I only drink it if I work early in the morning so I can get that much needed boost.

[Sera]

What I realized was that while I drank soda for the caffeine, I also drank it for the fizzy feeling. I love carbonation, especially when I'm eating foods that are high in sodium.

The best way I found to break my soda habit (because while I lived in Italy I didn't drink much soda -- too expensive over there) was to drink another carbonated beverage that wasn't so unhealthy. I chose to drink fizzy water, and it did the trick. Having decent fizzy water that isn't an arm and a leg is actually something I miss about Europe.

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

I know a guy who has for breakfast every day without fail:
3 bowls of frosted flakes, with mountain dew instead of milk

jesus christ that made me sick

[aduidarnenye]

Thanks for all the suggestions.

I'm thinking the tea route is best. I am really worried about the sugar intake (I just lost a bunch of weight) and the aspartame as well. I am not too keen on iced tea but I like hot tea.

Does anyone know the difference between the different types of hot tea, like green and English, and those weird little Tetley tea guys?

[Sera]

depends on the taste you like, really -- black tea (english, tetley etc) is more of a heavier taste, and most people don't drink it without sugar... green tea is said to be helpful for weight loss and digestive troubles, and people don't usually put sugar in it (though the canned kind will have it.)

[Killgannon]

haha yes pirian, as soon as i saw "i love (diet) orange soda" that immediately came to mind

whats wrong with tea? i drink it for the caffiene, its natural, and it tastes ok.... i guess i need to find carbonated water and try it to see if that helps with the carbonation craving (its more that then it is caffiene for me i think)

any good brands/flavors of carbonated water?

[Kiro]

I know a guy who has for breakfast every day without fail:
3 bowls of frosted flakes, with mountain dew instead of milk

I'm gonna try this someday.

[Sera]

in the US? heh, tell me when you find some that doesn't cost big bucks, and i'll be all over it.
http://www.santamariafoods.ca/images/san-benedetto.jpg
San benedetto is what i drank in italy, they sell natural and carbonated of course... Some waters can have more mineral content than others and have a funny aftertaste but this stuff was great imo, just can't seem to find it here

[Killgannon]

I'm gonna try this someday.

write me into your will first please, just give me everything, itll be ok