No pop for 90 days

by | Jan 30, 2006 | Blog, Miscellaneous | 5 comments

NoPop
No pop, soda, Coke or whatever you call all of those carbonated, usually caffinated beverages, for 90 days. I did it once for 30 days and it wasn’t like getting off cocaine or anything, but it certainly wasn’t easy. Here are some statements I found on the web concerning drinking pop. Remember, these are just random places off the web. I make no claims to the validity of any of these statements.

  • Soda has no nutritional value. It provides unnecessary calories, sugar and caffeine.
  • Soda drinking increases the odds of obesity more than other foods. Why? Because the energy consumed as liquid often isn’t compensated for by eating less food.
  • These popular beverages account for more than a quarter of all drinks consumed in the United States.
  • The acids in soda pop are also notorious for etching tooth enamel in ways that can lead to cavities.
  • There are 35 to 38 milligrams of caffine per 12-ounce can, that is roughly 28 percent of the amount found in an 8-ounce cup of coffee.
  • Animal studies demonstrate that phosphorus, a common ingredient in soda, can deplete bones of calcium.

    • So, I thought I’d try and go 90 days with no pop and see if I can tell the difference. Like I said, I went 30 days once about a year ago and in the end noticed a slight difference in energy. I decided to go 90 days this time to see if there’s more of a difference after the 30 days. I had a heck of a headache yesturday and the day before. The last time I drank any pop was 3 days ago, Friday the 27th at lunch. So far that’s the noticed difference and it’s quite irritating.

    5 Comments

    1. Brandon
      Brandon on January 31, 2006 at 5:08 pm

      I’m with ya! Next lets try no fast food for 3 months.

    2. Tandy
      Tandy on January 31, 2006 at 5:43 pm

      I’m in!

    3. Mom
      Mom on January 31, 2006 at 10:25 pm

      Not me! It’s too much work to cook and clean. If you’re not going to eat healthy (the right amount of servings from all of the food groups and drink lots of water) at home then you might as well eat fast food. I enjoy eating out too much so there is no way I’m giving that up! It will save me some money though if I am the only one that wants to eat out.

    4. kristen
      kristen on February 1, 2006 at 11:18 am

      Goodluck!

    5. Matt
      Matt on February 8, 2006 at 11:34 am

      I did this quite a while back and it’s not too tough once you get past the cravings.

      There was a time when all that I drank was soda, and i gained a lot of weight from it. Once I realized what was causing me to gain the weight, I cut the soda out and lost the weight really fast.

      Now when I drink a soda, I can’t even drink the entire thing a lot of times, it just doesn’t taste right.

      There are some sodas out there that have 0 caffeine, 0 calories, 0 everything. Some of these have other bad ingredients, but there are some out there that are great. Like the new Coke Zero is a nice thing to go to, the taste is pretty darn close to coke as well, nothing like diet coke which I don’t really like.

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