It has weighed heavily on my mind now for the past two weeks and honestly I think it’s been a lot longer then that. The sad truth is I have a fair amount of weight to lose, I am hovering around 200lbs. That’s a size 14-16 for those who want to know.
Nope, I’m not the kind of girl that will hide my weight. Can’t say I’m proud of how much I weigh, most people think I weigh around 160. So I guess I’m doing something right. I do think I may have more muscles then most women, and probably tend to be more on the athletic side at least in terms of stature, so I’d never be super skinny and that’s fine with me. I don’t think super skinny would be my style, I love my curves and flaunt them when it’s appropriate.
But back to making the decision. I kept thinking extreme like, going Vegan. But truth is, that’s way too much too soon. Even if I went vegan, I don’t think I’d lose any weight the way things are currently. That’s because I drink 4 plus cans of pop a day, of the Pepsi variety. That’s 600 calories at least, when I drink 4 cans a day. This is empty calories. Totally useless to my body, and I’m sure the addiction I have to this is similar to those with a nicotine addiction (smoking), because the thought of not having my pop as a crutch when I’m stressed – makes me stressed. I recently broke my addiction to caffeine and replaced it with a multivitamin, so that I don’t fall asleep midday.
I am currently drinking Caffeine-Free Pepsi so I have been caffeine free for 3 days now. I’ve had my caffeine headache already and took an Aleve for it, thank God a medicine exists that will actually stop these headaches. No other medication has ever done it. So if your planning on going off caffeine, taper then quit. Then take an Aleve. I am not an advocate of pain medication in any way, but sometimes you need to tango with the devil. I do find as well that if you drink a good cold glass of water it will help with the withdrawal headache.
I realized that drinking pop, was my worst addiction. I was practically raised on pop, and I can remember back when I was a child on road trips with other families that I’d be the only one allowed to have a pop, and sometimes other parents wouldn’t let me and I’d throw a huge tantrum. I was addicted and am still. As far as I can remember that went back to when I was at least about 5 years of age. I don’t blame my mother as that was how she’s raised and still drinking Coke to this day. It’s something I know she really wants to quit as well.
My tapering schedule is as follows:
Week 1: 4 cans a day
Week 2: 4 cans a day
Week 3: 3 cans a day
Week 4: 3 cans a day (I’m on this week)
Week 5: 2 cans a day
Week 6: 2 cans a day
Week 7: 2 cans a day
Week 8: 1 can a day
Week 9: 1 can a day
Week 10: Completion (0 cans a day)
It doesn’t seem as scary to me to do it this way. So at least I can see where I’m supposed to be in 10 weeks. That’s 10 weeks to getting off my pop addiction. I’m excited, I think I can do it this time for good. No, I’m not going to replace it with another caloric beverage. I’m going to spend time learning to like ice cold water.
If you still are addicted to caffeine, you can simply use the above timetable to limit yourself to caffeinated drinks, and then the rest un-caffeinated. It is essentially how I weaned myself off caffeine. Then continue the next 10 weeks to wean yourself off pop completely.
