I'm drinking some A&W Root Beer right now. First drink of pop I've had in a few weeks, due to the fact that I have nearly eliminated pop from my diet, and as good as it is, my stomach is hating me.
Since they're carbonated and just as, if not more, sugary, I'll include energy drinks here. I try and go for the sugar-free/low-carb ones though. I'm willing to bet many of you are reading this like "What a fucking moron, doesn't he realize that anyone who drinks diet soda or any other carbonated calorie-free drink is going to get cancer and die a painful, horrible death?" And I just shrug. Because fuck going to be early.
Before this past summer i would drink it multiple times, almost everyday, because of a job where I had unlimited free access to soda. Since then I've quit my job and have become so incredibly poor that I can't afford to buy it.
I stopped almost completely for a year or so because the people who buy the groceries in the house never bought the stuff. However, the last month or so I have gone on a bender drinking a can or two a day. I got one last can in the fridge, and I think I'm going to take a break shortly after that's gone. After that year or two break every time I got a sip of the stuff it was like liquid sex on my taste buds, but after a few cans it just lost it's appeal.
I never drink it unless I'm sick and then odds are that I'm mostly going to have gatorade or some sports drink. I've been eating healthy for a while and it just doesn't taste as good as it used to, it's weird.
@TheSeductiveMoose: I'm pretty much entirely incapable of getting fat. I try to eat as much as my stomach will let me. I eat ice cream and drink soda most everyday, but I've actually lost weight this summer. I weigh 120 lbs. The most I've ever weighed was 135. I'm scarily skinny. I have to exercise like crazy to gain any weight, but at least when I do it's all muscle. My soda consumption doesn't seem to have any effect on my weight.
It's especially weird considering the rest of my family. My dad's got a bit of a belly at around 180, but my sisters and mother are both well over 200 lbs. The only people in my family built anything like me are my second cousins.
Once a day, sometimes I won't drink one for a few days though. My eating habits are awful, I need help.
@Everyones_A_Critic said:
Since they're carbonated and just as, if not more, sugary, I'll include energy drinks here. I try and go for the sugar-free/low-carb ones though. I'm willing to bet many of you are reading this like "What a fucking moron, doesn't he realize that anyone who drinks diet soda or any other carbonated calorie-free drink is going to get cancer and die a painful, horrible death?" And I just shrug. Because fuck going to be early.
I've heard that the whole diet pop giving you cancer thing is a myth, but I could be mistaken.
Once a day, sometimes I won't drink one for a few days though. My eating habits are awful, I need help.
@Everyones_A_Critic said:
Since they're carbonated and just as, if not more, sugary, I'll include energy drinks here. I try and go for the sugar-free/low-carb ones though. I'm willing to bet many of you are reading this like "What a fucking moron, doesn't he realize that anyone who drinks diet soda or any other carbonated calorie-free drink is going to get cancer and die a painful, horrible death?" And I just shrug. Because fuck going to be early.
I've heard that the whole diet pop giving you cancer thing is a myth, but I could be mistaken.
It certainly isn't any better for you than regular pop.
I only drink water. When I was younger, soda and juice used to be the only thing I would drink, but some day I just randomly started drinking water exclusively. I don't know why.
@damnboyadvance: Yeah. The internet is annoying, I was just looking around for information on this and some studies show no correlation between cancer and diet soda, while others do. Pretty much everything gives you cancer these days (cell phones, the sun, etc.) so I will continue my unhealthy ways of drinking both diet and non-diet pop.
From April-ish 2010 to April-ish 2011 I didn't drink any soda. So I went a year without soda. Ever since I have it maybe once a month. I've just gotten in to the habit of picking water over it at restaurants
Then I bought a case of Big Blue, and it was so awful, that it turned me off of soda, almost for good. Now I just get a Pibb Xtra from the vending machine at school occasionally.
@PeasantAbuse: Well you have to remember that all that has been shown are correlations. Have you heard of "correlation does not prove causation?" Yeah, that applies here.
About once a month. When I got in shape a couple of years back, one habit that stuck with me is drinking a lot of water, around 100 oz a day. So I'm generally not thirsty, and if I am, it rarely occurs to me to drink anything other than H20.
None of these properly describe my soda drinking habits.
I almost exclusively drink soda. I can enjoy fruit juice now and again, I like tea, I can drink water if I have to... but I just prefer fizzy goodness.
@Codester: Nope, only the exception of sprouted bread which has no sugar and half a gram of fat. But plenty of those healthy carbs I need for my muscles.
Almost daily. Once I unintentionally went about three days with no caffeine and went into withdrawal from it, and almost eliminated it in the following months. I've relapsed a bit this year.
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