cranky days are here agan...

Okay, The word of the day is: WATER. 

I known what you are thinking.  Boring day.  You have a very valid point.  However, the word of the day for the last 2000 or so days would have been Diet Coke, or Diet Dr. Pepper, or Coke Zero and so I am anticipating a rather bumpy road down this river (river made of WATER!!).

Full disclosure: I have stopped drinking my many, many cans of soda before.  When I was pregnant I had nothing with caffeine in it (so easy to do for someone else!) and once or twice before, I stopped drinking soda for a couple of months in an attempt to lose weight and when that didn't happen I got so ticked off that I jumped right back on that big old caramel colored carbonated beverage wagon.

One of the things that has kept me swimming (the backstroke, the butterfly, you get the picture) in soda is that I have been afraid (terrified) of the withdrawal experience.  I have been known to get a wee bit grumpy even with an ample supply of the delicious cola at my disposal.  So you would be right to be VERY concerned for the well being of my family and my mind, as I begin this detox process.

I want to get through this week.  After this week I will be locked away in a place that doesn't have access to soda for 11 days. (It is a good thing...not like a jail sentence or anything...I will share about it later.)  I was planning on packing a case or two of soda to take with me but when I return, if all goes according to my mad scientist plan I will have 18 days cola free under my belt and the world should be safe (level yellow) from the possibility of me going off in an unexpected and disproportionate fashion to any given situation.

So before, I gave up my beverage of choice because I wanted to lose weight and it seemed like an easy way to jump start that.  With any luck, (in my evil plan) I wouldn't have to anything else.  I wouldn't have to exercise, I wouldn't have to change my eating habits; I would just stop drinking soda and I would be 10-15 pounds lighter.  My evil plan sucked and I didn't lose one pound...but almost lost my mind.

This time, I know full well that I wont lose any weight by doing this.  What I want is to get the monkey off my back.  I want to not have to worry about if I have any soda in my fridge, or where I can stop to get some.  I am tired of over-paying for soda because I am desperate enough to have to get some out of a soda machine.  I am tired of telling my kids that they can't have any (more) soda because it isn't good for them while I am pouring it in a glass for myself.

So here I go.  I will let you know how it works out.  In the mean time...seriously...you need to pray for the people around me.