I didn't have any goals for this — just that some Monday about a month ago,
I realized that I hadn't had any diet cola over the preceding weekend — so I
thought I'd make a go of it.
I passed the one-month mark on Monday. In retrospect, I guess drinking it
has been more a function of habit than anything else. Like, habit was what motivated
the choice. Habit and ready availability are the biggest factors.
It takes a little doing to ask for iced tea instead. In all cases except one,
it's readily available.*
Generally speaking, I'm doing fine.
Looking at my chart , though, quitting soda appears to not have influenced
my weight loss progress at all: In the 24 days prior to the day I quit, I had lost
7.4 lbs. In the 23 days that followed — these being the days which exclude soda --
I dropped 7.8 lbs. So, in my estimation, there's really no data to suggest that I
enjoyed any advantage that was reflected on the bathroom scale.
*The one place I can't find iced tea as an option is at
the local movie theater. Here too can one's choices be influenced by habit and
availability: I was very used to buying a box of M&M's and sharing a giant diet
cola at the movies — so sitting in the theater with only a bottle of water just...
doesn't get it. It's pretty lame.
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