Sugary Withdrawals

Ever since I was a toddler I have loved food more than most. I knew I would grow up to try all sorts of food from all different places around. With that love for food I also loved the different kinds of drinks that parried well with any culinary masterpieces. The first time I ever had a soft drink though, I knew my world was forever changed. Until this day I still have an obsession with soda that some might even call an unhealthy habit, literally. I find myself drinking twice the amount of soda compared to the amount of water that I need. While growing up my parents would be able to limit how much soda I drank and they taught me how to have a healthy diet and also to exercise regularly. Thankfully because of how I was raised I have not had any health problems that can come from drinking soda in large amounts like so many other American youth. Now that I live alone I still carried out this excessive drinking of soda where I was literally obsessed with it. I made a decision one day this summer to stop drinking soda and to see how long I could go without it. I mainly wanted to push myself to be healthier and cutting out my carbonated drink addiction would help largely. Many of my friends told me that I would be getting caffeine headaches and that I wouldn’t last more than 2 weeks. Well it has been nine weeks without drinking any soda and I haven’t had one headache yet! I will say that I am definitely missing the taste that I love from soft drinks. I don’t notice any difference in my physical appearance but I have noticed that I have more energy and don’t get tired as easily.  I am going to keep this up for as long as I can.