Thursday, January 29, 2009

Oh no he didn't!

Chris decided to give up soda for his New Years resolution. I decided to give up sugar. With my resolution, I decided I would give myself one free day (Sunday) to hoard and eat as much sugar as I wanted. Chris decided this was a really good idea, so on Saturday he's been buying a soda to drink on Sunday. He's been doing really good, and only drinking it on Sunday. He was even able to pass it up when we went to St. George a few weeks ago, and traveling without soda is especially hard for him.

Occasionally when he buys his soda on Saturday he'll get a big one and just drink the same soda the next Sunday. Last Saturday we went to the store together, and Chris picked out a 2 liter Code Red Mountain Dew. Sunday rolled around, and since he and I were fasting, he didn't get to whip out the soda until around noon. He drank a couple glasses, and I thought he'd be finished. Oh no, at 8pm he poured another glass. I remember thinking that he would never fall asleep.

We stayed up late that night, and were in bed around midnight. I was so tuckered out! Pretty soon I reach over and Chris is out of bed. I immediately knew it was the caffeine. I fell back asleep and reached over at 3am....still not there. I got up to take care of business and asked him what the heck he was doing. He said he couldn't sleep so he polished off the 2 liters of soda. Well, duh, that's going to keep you up.

In the end he came to bed at 5 something and woke up less than an hour later. After that, he decided cold turkey is the way to go. A 37 year old guy just can't stay up all night!

3 comments:

Andrea said...

I am impressed with your new years goals! NO SUGAR-- WOW! I love that Chris lost all control on Sunday. That is totally something Josh would do! And then he would also pay for it all night. Good luck with your goals.

Bean said...

I gave up soda as well recently. It wasn't supposed to be a New Year's resolution, but I guess it kind of was. That is funny that Chris drank so much at once!

Lolene said...

How is your sugar goal going?