Today marks the 79th day that I haven't had any soft drink, chocolate, chips, or any other nasties ! My main focus when starting this journey was to stop drinking Coke and eating chocolate. I used to have a minimum of 2 litres of Coke a DAY and a BLOCK of chocolate every 2 days. I was out of control. I craved Coke all the time. It was like I needed it to stay alive, when in fact it was killing me. I didn't drink anything except Coke. If at a friend's house and they didn't have Coke I would much prefer to go without. I never tried Diet or the other Cokes, my coke had to be the real Coke. Thinking about it more now, that was a disgusting habit.
I am a massive chocolate fan and I do miss it now, but I had to completely wipe it out of my diet as I bet if I had a small amount I just couldn't stop. So I much prefer to have none at all and I am ok with that. The same goes for other junk foods like chips, Clint and myself would have a bag each of a night when the kids went to bed. We both would have the 3 C's together, Coke, Chocolate and Chips in a bowl while watching TV or being on the PC. We both would often go back for 2nd also. This could be 9pm at night when our tummies should have been settling down for the night not being fed crap and then feeling awful all night and in the mornings.
So I decided all of this crap had to leave the house immediately and it wasn't to come back in at all. The temptation would just be too big for me to control just now. And honestly, the kids don't need that shit to eat either. They are healthy kids and I was showing them bad awful grouse habits. Tehy don't need to follow in my bad habits and foot steps. Sweet biscuits got thrown out, lollies, cakes, donuts, chips, chocoalte, all soft drinks (I was allowing my precious cherubs to have other varierties of soft drinks - they loved diet coke and vanilla coke etc. ), surgary cereals, raw sugar, EVERYTHING nasty got thrown away and it hasn't entered out house since.
I won't say it has been easy, because the 1st week was absolutely awful, I had the most terrible headaches the whole time, I couldn't sleep properly and I am sure I was moody. But I knew it was all for the best. Once I got passed the first week and a half I felt great. I was tempted a few times at the supermarket to just grab a bottle of Coke but I didn't, thankfully, I always made sure I had a bottle of water in my hand or reach at all times, and that has been fantastic. I actually now don't think I could even have a sip of Coke without gagging, I am sure it tastes horrid after all this time. I now really love water !
This is one thing in my life that I am definitely proud of doing - giving Coke the flick ! As well as all the other nasties. And it is showing with myself losing almost 12 kg :D My skin has got smoother, I haven't had any breakouts, my moods are much better and I can even see the better behaviour in my kids, especially Callum my 10 year olds. Although he still has his hyperactive moments, he is listening more. :)
I can't wait to hit 100 days free of junk !
