Addicted to the fizzy stuff.. and the beginnings of quitting

… Coca Cola Pepsi Max addict here! 

I hope everyone knows this reference! 

Tell me why certain sparkling beverages are addictive? Wherever you are from, whatever you call them… soda, fizzy pop, minerals they are everywhere, and we all have our poison, me? I love the black stuff! I love Diet Coke, Pepsi Max and I’ll go as far as saying I really do like the cheaper versions I can get in Aldi and Lidl, as the song goes.. “I just can’t get enough!!”                                   

I know its all bad for you, but the amount I do drink, I have taken to drinking the diet ones as they don't have the extra calories.. and I just prefer them now! 

Clearly.. way more healthy! HA HA

That crisp sting as it passes your lips and hits your tongue, its freezing from the fridge, that k-tizzz of the can opening (that sounds dangerously like an alcoholic). I’m just in love, but, and the major but..  I know it’s bad for me, I know it bloats my stomach and my face, and gives me acid tummy, and rots my teeth and makes my skin dull and break out!                                                                  

So WHY do I keep going back to its tasty amazingness?

I’ve decided to go on a quest to see what are the reasons for craving fizzy drinks, and I’ve also decided to give them up and do a little documentation on my way, I have done it a few times before, and honestly I gave up the black stuff for Lent this year, but began drinking Club Orange, so it has to be all fizzy drinks this time!! And clearly I started drinking Coke and Pepsi again!

Why do I crave Fizzies?  

After some research on multiple sites, but not being able to find the original source, if I do I will link it here… it has come to my attention that craving fizzy drinks is being linked to a calcium deficiency, who knew? 

And also a lack of magnesium, which I had heard before. So maybe this is why I crave the coke so much, my body is needing minerals it’s not getting from my diet,

How does drinking coke give me calcium … the answer is a little crazy, it is known that fizzy drinks leech calcium from your teeth, and in doing this that calcium is passing into your stomach to be reabsorbed when needed! Our bodies are magical things!

Detox Time

So it is time for a detox and get myself back into drinking water, which I also love, clearly not as much though! 

I’m writing this with acid reflux and a can of Pepsi in my hand, no joke, I can drink four or more cans of coke a day and they are the larger value ones! So maybe about a litre and a half a day! Yeeesh!!

So next Tuesday the 9th of June (never start anything on a Monday), I am going on my official detox and quitting the black stuff, and the orange stuff… and only if I’m very stuck I will drink diet 7up! I’m going to document my skin’s improvement and maybe the roundness of my face! :P  Also my general health and how I feel, I will also try to increase my intake of both calcium and magnesium and report back how I’m doing!

I know it’s difficult at the start, I know the headaches come, and having it everywhere and when meeting friends it’s hard as they drink it quite often, but I have done it before, and know I need to do it again!

My Aim

My aim is to maintain the no fizzy drinks for good, but my initial goal is thirty days, they say a habit is broken after twenty-one days, so I might as well go the few extra for a round month!
-Right now I am preparing by flooding myself with Pepsi and Coke to make it "extra easy" for me to stop!! and mentally preparing to grieve the loss of a something so divine in my life!! :P 

Wish me luck!

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LOCO ABOUT COCO-NUT MILK

               Although I love chocolate, ice cream, a little cheese, butter and all animal products, I’m not a fan of the “raw” milk that some folks like to drink by the pint! (*shudders*) 

I went on a “non-dairy” journey in the last year to find the nicest milk to have with cereal, I don’t drink tea or coffee so maybe my choices aren’t A+ for those.

Okay, so I did tried, 

Soy milk is yuck, there's not much I have to say about it, its just not good.















Sweetened almond milk is nice,and i would definitely                                                                    repurchase it again, if on offer!

Non-sweetened almond milk not so much...

I tried an oat milk which tasted okay, I couldn't drink it as it didn't look right in my cereal, it was just too brownish for my liking!!  

So I hit the jack pot while perusing the healthy aisle, coconut drinking milk. 

Blissfully amazing yumminess! 

Now I won’t be drinking a glass of it, but in cereal it does the job deliciously!
Onto the bigger question (HA) which brand is the nicest! Usually I try and find a deal, BOGOF is ideal as coconut milk doesn’t need to be refrigerated until it’s opened, another bonus over cow’s milk, it lasts bloody ages!

I’ve tried Alpro Coconut milk, it’s my third favourite out of the three that I usually pick up, its much thicker than the others, more like the canned stuff for curries, it’s too thick for my liking and very strong tasting, but I would still use it. coconut content is 5.3%

Secondly is the Marks and Spencer brand coconut milk, usually on offer. It’s just a tasty milk, it ticks all the boxes, it is more like milk then the Alpro, its consistency is more appealing.

And my number one is KOKO coconut milk, it’s just the one I always reach for if I’m in Holland and Barrett, it’s about 2euro and lasts me about seven days. It also has more coconut content of 8%!

Seems odd to say, but I did have to get used to having non cow’s milk in my daily routine, we do get used to the usual tastes of cow’s milk, and I found myself silently freaking out every time I tasted the tangy coconut milk as I thought I was drinking gone off milk!!

Positives for drinking non-dairy milk... its non-dairy, I have acne and less milk is best for me as cow’s milk contain hormones that can cause issues to some. I’m not here to give the “no meat, no dairy promotion” as I love meat and I do eat dairy chocolate and ice cream.

Negatives about not drinking milk... listening to others saying I should drink milk... and I’m not quite sure when my coconut milk is bad... like if its extra tangy, is it still ok!! Haha