Hi bombshell's and gents.
This month will include as series of guest posts. I'm really busy this month but I want you all to still be able to get quality content in my absence! So I got in touch with some blogger buddies and well.. the rest is history! I have an awesome guest post for you this week by one of my favorite bloggers! Please show her some love my dear readers and take notes!
This month will include as series of guest posts. I'm really busy this month but I want you all to still be able to get quality content in my absence! So I got in touch with some blogger buddies and well.. the rest is history! I have an awesome guest post for you this week by one of my favorite bloggers! Please show her some love my dear readers and take notes!
Saying Sayonara To Soda!
Hellllooo! I'm Jess all the way from corner of the cyber world, www.overthinkggirl.blogspot.com. I'm a former couch potato turned fitness junkie. I've lost 70lbs over the last year, the old fashion way. I've ran in over a half a dozen 5K's and am currently training for a half marathon! I follow Presh on Instagram and just adore her, so I was more than ecstatic when she asked if I wanted to help her out during a busy time with some blog posts. Of course I would!!!
Let's get down to things. I wanted to talk about my hardest vice to give up when I started changing my lifestyle. I know that is something everyone struggles with when they go to start a healthier lifestyle. Its just plain hard. That thing has been there for you for comfort and for boredom, breaking up with it, is not as easy as a good cry, sad movies and a pint of Ben and Jerry. It takes serious effort and willpower.
My vice?
Soda.
Pop, cola, nectar of the God's...
Whatever you want to call it, it was Cancer to my hopes and dreams of starting a healthier lifestyle.
I could down 5 32oz cups in a day without a blink of an eye.
It wasn't like I just drank regular soda, I drank the worst of the worst....
Mountain Dew, Dr. Pepper and Diet Pepsi.
I had made my health a ticking, carbonated time bomb.
I knew I couldn't go cold turkey, and I wasn't going to set myself up for failure. So I weaned myself. I cut those 5 32 oz drinks down to, 5 cans, yes thats still a lot but not compared to the 160 oz of soda I was pounding back. Then I went down to two cans a day, then one a day, one every other day, one twice a week and then to one a week. After about two and a half months I got down to none, zip, zilch, ZERO soda. I started drinking unsweet tea like it was going out of style. (By this time last year I had quit soda, and I've only had maybe 2 since then..and I've never finished 'em or I split it with my Hub).
Tea is a great replacement, but I tell you my guilty pleasure that I like to replace soda with is this..
I found this water at Dillons/Kroger in the organic section and these Sugar Free Crush Singles at Big Lots. Now I first thought this water would be yummy. But it tastes like seltzer or something, not exactly the most delicious, but it wasn't horrible. One day I was out of my regular bottles of water that I'd throw with a singles packet in my lunch box, so I grabbed one of the Cascade Ice's. I tried it and HOT DANG I was on to something!! It tasted like soda, but wasn't anywhere near as bad and it gave me the carbonation that I missed from soda. It was a miracle, the promise land of vice replacements. My husband goes through them faster than I do. He has been trying to give up pop for a long long time. He hardly touches pop when we have these around. If some weird organic water and drink mix is all it takes to help him out, I'm sold.
Yes yes, Crush has artificial hoopla in it. BUT so much of my diet is organic, natural, non GMO, ect, one or two packets of this isn't going to kill me. Its mountains upon mountains better than all that soda was for me and it's like a treat too, without the guilt!!
-Jess
xoxo, Preshii
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