Seven Reasons Not to Drink Cokes

I'm day seven soft drink free! Although, I should be completely honest. I am drinking a butt load of sweet tea and coffee. By coffee I mean coffee with sugar and that powdered flavor cream stuff. I don't actually like coffee. I'm just drinking it as substitute for the cola. Then I'll cut that out too. It's usually decaf or 1/2 caf. I do love me some Starbucks mocha. The best is the peppermint mocha during Christmas time. YUM.

Anywho..
In "honor" of 7 day soda free, Here's a list of reasons why you should be miserable soda free with me:

1. Soda causes tooth decay. All that sugar, and the acid takes the enamal off your teeth.

2. Cokes make you fat (yep, even diet).

3. Money. Water = free. Soft drinks = not free.

4. Bad for the earth.

5. Soda damages your liver.

6. Kidney stones and other kidney damage and issues.

7. Because I need someone to suffer get healthy with me.

Did I motivate anyone? Need better explanations? I can give ya that. When I'm not craving delicious bubbly Coke on my tongue. mmmm. Why am I doing this again? Oh yeah, the above reasons and then some.

Thanks for reading!

Change It!

After two years, I still remember the lecture on wellness/well being we heard in our walking class (yes, you read that right, walking- yes, in college). We talked about how most of the diseases out there are preventable, such as a person having kidney problems at 50 because they didn't drink water.

She said "you hate your job? You can change that.  Find another one."

Being abused at home?  "You don't have to take that.  That's what welfare is for.  Take the kids, get an apartment, get on some food stamps, and change it.

If you're over 18, and being physically, verbally, or sexually abused, you choose to stay.  You don't have to sit there."

She went into saying that she heard her roommate yell at his girlfriend for an hour the other night.  "What a waste of time.  What a waste of an hour.  Nobody's going to talk to me that way."

Have stress?  Change it.

Never once did she it's easy to do.  She just simply said you can.

If you don't like something in your life, change it.

It's not easy.

It's hard work.

It takes time.

It's worth it.

I repeat. If you don't like something in your life. Change it.

Change it!



Thanks for reading! What are you trying to change? What are you waiting for?



**2/9/13: Please note this post is a retelling of a class lecture, and meant as encouragement and inspiration. It is NOT supposed to be harsh, nor victim blaming. Different things mean different things to different people, and if you find this post negative, then this post is just not for you. I am taking the comments written on this post as a lesson for future posts to check and re-check that my point is coming across. Thank you**

Meal Plan Monday

Linking up with I'm an Organizing Junkie!

Here's this week's meals:

Tonight, as well as many people linking up, we had leftovers from yesterday (wings, pizza, and I made some broccoli to feel slightly less disgusting)

Tuesday:  Baked chicken with garlic spinach* and cornbread

Wednesday: Sweet and spicy Italian stir fry

Thursday: Fettuccine Alfredo* with chicken, broccoli, mushrooms

Friday: Pizza night. Until we get tired of it, Fridays are now officially pizza night. Sometimes homemade, sometimes ordered in, sometimes frozen. 

Saturday or Sunday: meatloaf, some type of potato (undecided on how I'm fixing them), possibly more cornbread, green beans

Leftover the other weekend day.

*I'm slowly trying to start making more "clean meals." Hopefully one day my whole menu plan will be clean, healthy, and delicious. Oh, and something everyone will eat. This may take awhile...

In other news:
I am day four soft drink free!
I finally printed out my planner. Pictures and post hopefully this week.

Thank you so much for stopping by! What delicious meals are you preparing this week? Any tips for clean eating?

Good Bye, Coke

...and we're 2 days in of trying YET AGAIN to give up my major addiction to Coke (in the south, all soft drinks are Cokes.) I'd go into more details, but I helped host a baby shower today, and then went out to dinner for a family birthday.

Good night.

1st Blog-versary!

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Happy 1st birthday to my little blog. I love this little thing... but I am in the process of making some mucho changes. Whoop whoop!

Thanks for reading!