If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again. ~ W. E. Hickson

In case you can't tell from the opening line, I crashed. The Coke Zero won. I had to fight a battle against the cookie monster, several of them. I chose the lesser evil. I'm only human! I can only take so much!

So, one point for the naysayers. Yes, I agree, if something, anything, has that type of control on me, then...it needs to be put in it's place. A drink, be it alcohol, wine, coffee or cola should be a choice not a necessity. (unless it's water of course, I'm not completely stupid!)

So I will revise my battle plan and continue the attack. I can't go cold turkey. I'll cut back hour by hour by hour. No cola before noon. Then no cola before 1:00, then 2:00 and so on and so on, until I control my beverage choices. It will take time and I will succeed; after all, if I can lose 80+ lbs and go from not being able to walk up a flight of stairs to running a half marathon non-stop, I can do this.

Why am I doing this? Because nobody and nothing controls me,
but me.