h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

What an odd expression. I don't feel like a turkey. And not particularly cold, either. In fact, due to the product that I've "Cold Turkeyed" I'm actually quite hot and uncomfortable.

What have I quit, you may ask? Not smoking, not yet. Soon.

No. I've quit drinking soda pop.

No Pepsi. No Dr. Pepper. No Mountain Dew Code Red. Not even the ikky diet stuff. (ewww. I hate fake sugar...)

So, in order to get my carbonation fix, I've begun drinking club soda. Ingredients? Carbonated water (ok), sodium bicarbonate (salt?), sodium citrate (more salt?), potassium sulfate (preservative), and disodium phosphate (What the hell? Could that be even more salt? Any chemistry majors on site to help me out here?).

Hmmm. Maybe I should go back to the plain old Coke thing...

On a related note, I'm also trying to loose weight. I refuse to starve myself (I think that looking like a fence post is unsexy, anyway...) but I'm trying to cut down on the junk food. So, when I got my aforementioned club soda this morning, I also got a Tiger's Milk bar.

Now, I've been eating those things for years. I like 'em. But for the first time today, I actually read the ingredients on the wrapper. First one out of the bag?

High fructose corn syrup. Sugar sugar sugar ARRR NUMMM NUMMMM NUMMMM.

Wonderful. So I guess the "America's first Health Bar" thing on the front is just so much poo.

New tag line? "It's healthy because we say it is!"

I like my husband's theory. In Los Angeles, everyone seems to be of the opinion that if it comes out of a blender, it's healthy food. The solution to this sillyness? Blend up a few bacon cheeseburger smoothies and hey presto!

Hi, I was just reading up on how other people drink soda pop.My husband is my case all the time about me drinking pop.I will be honest here.I drink at least 8 to 12 cans of pop a day.On the weekends it can be more.I have thought about quitting and i did while i was pregnant but started up agian.Nothing happened to me when i quit like people said it would so i thought it was more the taist i crave.But then theres the other thing i've noticed was the habbit of always having a can of pop in my hand.I mean when my can is empty i will go to the frig and get another one weather i'm thirsty or not.So besides having to have the pop it's also a habbit.So if i try to quit i have the habbit to quit too.I've tryed drinking other things but i haven't found anything to take the place of both.As in drinking the same amount and able to go to the frig to get another when i'm done...So please please help if someone could.......