too much soda

[unbibium]

yes, radio ad. 64 ounces is a perfectly reasonable soda size, and people who say otherwise deserve to be mocked as if they're complaining about having too much money, or too many private jets, or too many blow jobs.

Assuming no ice, a 64 ounces of pure Dr. Pepper is 853 calories. Your mileage may vary if you'd rather have the last half of your soda be flat than warm.

Substitute with Diet Dr. Pepper, that's only 266 calories. But it's diet soda, and nearly two liters of it. But if you didn't think 853 calories is too many blow jobs, then you can get the diet soda, and chase it with two Snickers bars. TWO!

When I first started walking outside my neighborhood, I discovered the 44-ounce sport bottle, and I'd refill it regularly, because it's usually hot and I needed to rehydrate. This was when I stopped being skinny and started being fat.

Comments

[cynica.livejournal.com]

There's 266 calories in Diet DP??

[jaytee.livejournal.com]

Um, yeah, what she said.

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

There's 50 calories in a 12 ounce can of Diet Dr. Pepper.

[cynica.livejournal.com]

I'm searching hard and long (huh huh) for a source that backs what you're saying up, but nowhere anywhere can I find where there's even 1 calorie in DDP.

http://drpepper.com/text/dietdpnutrition.aspx

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

oh? hm. Something must have changed; it was 50 on the last can I bothered to check.

[vyus.livejournal.com]

soda is liquid candy. eliminate it completely from your diet (and all juice and other flavored beverages) is lifestyle imperative #1.

I rememeber

[w-b-yeats.livejournal.com]

7-11 used to offer a 128 ounce bucket of soda, when coding in Phoenix long ago. The other young coders and I would go down and bring them back filled with Mt. Dew.

We all worked nights.

Re: I rememeber

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

Why didn't they just call it a gallon?

Re: I rememeber

[w-b-yeats.livejournal.com]

because that wouldn't be EXTREME!

[duckmole86.livejournal.com]

Which is why you refill it with water. ;) Water be good for you.

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

I think I filled it with water on the way out of my house, and then filled it with soda once I hit a convenience store.

sweet deal, 59 cents. The world was good, for no other reason.

[tamtrible.livejournal.com]

There's scientific evidence suggesting that high-fructose corn syrup is particularly prone to making one fat, your body processes it somewhat differently from other calorie sources or something...

[motis.livejournal.com]

While living in China, I completely broke the habit of drinking soda. Strange thing: Before I got off the sugar water, I felt no particular need or desire to stop drinking it. Quitting made such an improvement for me that now I am horrified at the thought of all the soda I used to guzzle.

It's a relatively easy lifestyle change to make, and you won't be sorry once the craving subsides. Cutting down on sugar in general is a really good idea, and as you've noted in your post, soda has so very much sugar in it that drinking one of those convenience store buckets is like eating a very hearty meal made of zero-protein badness.

DOWN WITH OUR CARBONATED OVERLORDS! RISE UP AND REBEL!

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

I wonder if I can still have things like green tea and lemonade.

[tamtrible.livejournal.com]

I think green tea, at least, is less sweetened than the typical soda; and even lemonade may be, or at least be sweetened with sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup.