Coke

Came in from work this afternoon and had planned on doing some housework
and such..
I go to the fridge and grrr, no diet soda.. not water or tea..I really
wanted one. I spied a Coke in the back of the fridge.
So I drank it. It was SO sweet I didn't finish it. Now this is coming
from a woman who drank on average 6-8 Cokes a DAY about a year ago
before I made my WOE changes.. I am truly sick. Bleh. I had to go lay
down for a little while. I feel/felt very lethargic and just bleh. Never
again! Do you ever think back on how you used to eat/drink and just say
to yourself, "wow, it's a wonder I'm not dead."

Glad that little experiment is over..
ick.

Susan
260/192/140

"susanjoneslewis" wrote in message
.. .
Came in from work this afternoon and had planned on doing some housework
and such..
I go to the fridge and grrr, no diet soda.. not water or tea..I really
wanted one. I spied a Coke in the back of the fridge.
So I drank it. It was SO sweet I didn't finish it. Now this is coming
from a woman who drank on average 6-8 Cokes a DAY about a year ago
before I made my WOE changes.. I am truly sick. Bleh. I had to go lay
down for a little while. I feel/felt very lethargic and just bleh. Never
again! Do you ever think back on how you used to eat/drink and just say
to yourself, "wow, it's a wonder I'm not dead."

Glad that little experiment is over..
ick.

Susan
260/192/140

Yes, I do think back and wonder how I did it. We were at a party yesterday,
one of the first since beginning maintenance. I avoided a lot of these
gatherings when I was in full diet mode. Anyway, I found that I spent most
of my time away from the kitchen where the food table was. There once was a
time when I'd hover around that food table and eat the chips and everything
else. I went in a few times, once to get a plate for supper, but mostly to
keep filling my water glass. I tried one of the chips, and it was gross
(greasy). I also couldn't eat the sandwich roll - I find white bread
particularly icky these days.

At the same party, there was a woman who had been on the same diet as I was.
She was constantly picking at the food. I felt bad for her.

Hope you get over the coke soon

Jenn

Way cool. Now as long as you're getting your
calcium and doing resistance exercise, the
osteoporosis should be reversing itself.


"susanjoneslewis" wrote in message
.. .
Came in from work this afternoon and had planned on doing some housework
and such..
I go to the fridge and grrr, no diet soda.. not water or tea..I really
wanted one. I spied a Coke in the back of the fridge.
So I drank it. It was SO sweet I didn't finish it. Now this is coming
from a woman who drank on average 6-8 Cokes a DAY about a year ago
before I made my WOE changes.. I am truly sick. Bleh. I had to go lay
down for a little while. I feel/felt very lethargic and just bleh. Never
again! Do you ever think back on how you used to eat/drink and just say
to yourself, "wow, it's a wonder I'm not dead."

Glad that little experiment is over..
ick.

Susan
260/192/140

Huh?
Who has osteoporosis?

Susan
260/192/140

"Patricia Heil" wrote in message
...

Way cool. Now as long as you're getting your
calcium and doing resistance exercise, the
osteoporosis should be reversing itself.


"susanjoneslewis" wrote in message
.. .
Came in from work this afternoon and had planned on doing some
housework
and such..
I go to the fridge and grrr, no diet soda.. not water or tea..I
really
wanted one. I spied a Coke in the back of the fridge.
So I drank it. It was SO sweet I didn't finish it. Now this is
coming
from a woman who drank on average 6-8 Cokes a DAY about a year ago
before I made my WOE changes.. I am truly sick. Bleh. I had to go
lay
down for a little while. I feel/felt very lethargic and just bleh.
Never
again! Do you ever think back on how you used to eat/drink and just
say
to yourself, "wow, it's a wonder I'm not dead."

Glad that little experiment is over..
ick.

Susan
260/192/140

"Patricia Heil" wrote in message
...

Way cool. Now as long as you're getting your
calcium and doing resistance exercise, the
osteoporosis should be reversing itself.

Why, I didn't realize that Susan had osteoporosis...

I have definitely noticed that - things that I used to eat and enjoy are too
sweet, to salty, too greasy.... I'm glad that this stuff doesn't appeal to
me anymore!

det

"susanjoneslewis" wrote in message
.. .
Came in from work this afternoon and had planned on doing some housework
and such..
I go to the fridge and grrr, no diet soda.. not water or tea..I really
wanted one. I spied a Coke in the back of the fridge.
So I drank it. It was SO sweet I didn't finish it. Now this is coming
from a woman who drank on average 6-8 Cokes a DAY about a year ago
before I made my WOE changes.. I am truly sick. Bleh. I had to go lay
down for a little while. I feel/felt very lethargic and just bleh. Never
again! Do you ever think back on how you used to eat/drink and just say
to yourself, "wow, it's a wonder I'm not dead."

Glad that little experiment is over..
ick.

Susan
260/192/140

susanjoneslewis wrote:
Huh?
Who has osteoporosis?

In addition to packing on the weight, causing blood sugar issues, and
tooth decay commerical cola soda also contributes to osteoporisis.

Its the phosphoric acid.

In grad school I had a coworker who was a recovering anorexic.

Her psychologist told her to get over hangups about food ( the
discipline/reward/denial thing ) by eating whatever hit her fancy.

This woman always had a litre bottle of coke glued to her hand.

One day, she came into work on crutches. Her foot was broken.
She broke in her sleep when she kicked out into the wall. A bone scan
revealed osteoporosis ( she was in her early 20's at the time ).

Her doctor was good, he found out about her coke habit and got her off
of it.

Steve

susanjoneslewis wrote:
down for a little while. I feel/felt very lethargic and just bleh. Never
again! Do you ever think back on how you used to eat/drink and just say
to yourself, "wow, it's a wonder I'm not dead."

Not quite.

However since I have started measuring calories I have been very
impressed with how much I must have eaten when I was younger, exercising
a lot, and always unable to get rid of that "last little bit" of fat.

I would eat bags of bagles at a sitting. Heaping plates of pasta.

I learned a few months that most bagels are 300 calories! That is like
half a meal on my current, measured regime.......for a lousy hunk of
white bread.

Pasta was also a shock.

One day I decided to measure out "one serving".....about 280
calories......again, about half of one of my meals.

The serving was 2oz dry and I was AMAZED at how little it was.

It was just like the dieticians have been saying. You shouldn't eat
more pasta then what would fit in the surface area of your fist.

Its one thing reading that, it is another thing measuring it out for
yourself and seeing how little food that is.

If I knew then about what I now about portions/calories I would have
been *ripped*.......okay, maybe not ripped, but a whole lot leaner on
top of the good shape I was already in.

Steve

On Mon, 24 May 2004 23:06:38 GMT, "susanjoneslewis"
wrote:

Came in from work this afternoon and had planned on doing some housework
and such..
I go to the fridge and grrr, no diet soda.. not water or tea..I really
wanted one. I spied a Coke in the back of the fridge.
So I drank it. It was SO sweet I didn't finish it. Now this is coming
from a woman who drank on average 6-8 Cokes a DAY about a year ago
before I made my WOE changes.. I am truly sick. Bleh. I had to go lay
down for a little while. I feel/felt very lethargic and just bleh. Never
again! Do you ever think back on how you used to eat/drink and just say
to yourself, "wow, it's a wonder I'm not dead."

Actually, I still like pretty much the same things I always did. I
just can't imagine eating nearly the quantity I used to eat. I do
find, though, that things that used to really tempt me don't
particularly do so anymore unless I'm way over-hungry.

I don't feel a lot of guilt about occasionally indulging in a "treat"
food, though, as long as I get back on track -- and that hasn't been a
problem for me.

I drank a small regular coke the morning of my bench meet and liked it
okay. I did have ice in it; otherwise I think it may have been too
cloying. And it was a fountain coke at McDonald's: I think sometimes
they're less sweet.

Chris
262/149/ (145-150)

"determined" wrote:

I have definitely noticed that - things that I used to eat and enjoy
are too sweet, to salty, too greasy.... I'm glad that this stuff
doesn't appeal to me anymore!

I wouldn't mind a little more of that. I still love potato chips
*because* they are salty & greasy. I remember rejecting a box of Wheat
Thins because they weren't salty enough! otoh, the deep fried Monte
Cristo sandwich I used to love in Kingston, NY will never cross my lips
again, thank God. It's progress. lol

(Grocery store cakes with crisco frosting always disgusted me)

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