Fizzy Drinks...Am i addicted? Shock me into quitting.
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dave_s13 said:
mattikake said:
Words on a forum cannot adequately shock. So just sit back and enjoy your sugar fixes until your body eventually and inevitably malfunctions in a progressive agonising degenerative death that will take some 20 years to run it's course in a multitude of increasingly debilatating pains, complaints, spasms, tingles, twitches, smells and publically embarrassing loss of bodily functional control.
And remember, as you final painful breaths come, there's fitties like me sat here, laughing. Ohhhh yes, laughing. At your inability to take responsibility for your choices. We need people like you to die. Natural selection is not allowed to function properly any more, so we cannot watch you get eaten quickly by a predator from the safety of the branches of a tree, we just have to hope you slowly fall foul to your stupidity.
If you're lucky, I'll take a dump on your gave.
Carefully does it there paragon of virtue. Karma may fAnd remember, as you final painful breaths come, there's fitties like me sat here, laughing. Ohhhh yes, laughing. At your inability to take responsibility for your choices. We need people like you to die. Natural selection is not allowed to function properly any more, so we cannot watch you get eaten quickly by a predator from the safety of the branches of a tree, we just have to hope you slowly fall foul to your stupidity.
If you're lucky, I'll take a dump on your gave.
Edited by mattikake on Friday 3rd August 22:24
k you up in ways totally at odds with your perception of yourself. t who it will strike down next or choose to bestow life threatening illness or disability upon. But you know that right?
eric twinge said:
dave_s13 said:
mattikake said:
Words on a forum cannot adequately shock. So just sit back and enjoy your sugar fixes until your body eventually and inevitably malfunctions in a progressive agonising degenerative death that will take some 20 years to run it's course in a multitude of increasingly debilatating pains, complaints, spasms, tingles, twitches, smells and publically embarrassing loss of bodily functional control.
And remember, as you final painful breaths come, there's fitties like me sat here, laughing. Ohhhh yes, laughing. At your inability to take responsibility for your choices. We need people like you to die. Natural selection is not allowed to function properly any more, so we cannot watch you get eaten quickly by a predator from the safety of the branches of a tree, we just have to hope you slowly fall foul to your stupidity.
If you're lucky, I'll take a dump on your gave.
Carefully does it there paragon of virtue. Karma may fAnd remember, as you final painful breaths come, there's fitties like me sat here, laughing. Ohhhh yes, laughing. At your inability to take responsibility for your choices. We need people like you to die. Natural selection is not allowed to function properly any more, so we cannot watch you get eaten quickly by a predator from the safety of the branches of a tree, we just have to hope you slowly fall foul to your stupidity.
If you're lucky, I'll take a dump on your gave.
Edited by mattikake on Friday 3rd August 22:24
k you up in ways totally at odds with your perception of yourself. t who it will strike down next or choose to bestow life threatening illness or disability upon. But you know that right?
But back on topic, there seems to be two camps here, one that thinks the OP should MTFU and the other that truly believes all that 'men that made us fat' stuff and that sugar is like cocaine.
Personally I don't think anything is addictive. Just minds that are weak enough to succumb to whatever presents itself. No-one can shock the OP into quitting. If he's too feeble to sort himself out then c'est la vie. I find it pathetic that we're talking about fizzy drinks but a sad sign of the times.
Fatman2 said:
But back on topic, there seems to be two camps here, one that thinks the OP should MTFU and the other that truly believes all that 'men that made us fat' stuff and that sugar is like cocaine.
Personally I don't think anything is addictive. Just minds that are weak enough to succumb to whatever presents itself. No-one can shock the OP into quitting. If he's too feeble to sort himself out then c'est la vie. I find it pathetic that we're talking about fizzy drinks but a sad sign of the times.
Agree, addiction is a chemical dependency,given the alledged dependency here is sugar, surely if you stop drinking the sugary drinks, you will be mainlining Tate & Lyle or Golden Syrup to feed your habit....Personally I don't think anything is addictive. Just minds that are weak enough to succumb to whatever presents itself. No-one can shock the OP into quitting. If he's too feeble to sort himself out then c'est la vie. I find it pathetic that we're talking about fizzy drinks but a sad sign of the times.
Too many things are being labelled "addictive" to enable people to have an excuse for opening a can of Coke, or eating a chocolate bar
Burrow01 said:
Agree, addiction is a chemical dependency,given the alledged dependency here is sugar, surely if you stop drinking the sugary drinks, you will be mainlining Tate & Lyle or Golden Syrup to feed your habit....
Too many things are being labelled "addictive" to enable people to have an excuse for opening a can of Coke, or eating a chocolate bar
Too many things are being labelled "addictive" to enable people to have an excuse for opening a can of Coke, or eating a chocolate bar
I was going to suggest the same at the weekend, but thought people might object to the idea of a sugar addict snorting Tate & Lyle's finest 
Still, it'd reduce dental bills.That 'water is boring' comment gets my back up.
If you eat a slice of bread, then a biscuit, you'll not want another slice of bread because it's not sweet enough. If you eat a bar of chocolate, you'll not want another biscuit because then that isn't sweet enough either.
If you drink cola all day long, then of course water will taste boring.
Just stop drinking fizzy pop FFS. Drink water instead. At first it'll be a chore, but it doesn't take long before (especially if you cut sugar out entirely) you'll get half way through a can of coke and think 'f*uck me that's awful'.
If you eat a slice of bread, then a biscuit, you'll not want another slice of bread because it's not sweet enough. If you eat a bar of chocolate, you'll not want another biscuit because then that isn't sweet enough either.
If you drink cola all day long, then of course water will taste boring.
Just stop drinking fizzy pop FFS. Drink water instead. At first it'll be a chore, but it doesn't take long before (especially if you cut sugar out entirely) you'll get half way through a can of coke and think 'f*uck me that's awful'.
Bibbs said:
My wife works for one of the large fizzy drinks companies.
I go through 2x 600ml bottles a day as it's "free".
It's not good. But it's easy.
I go through 2x 600ml bottles a day as it's "free".
It's not good. But it's easy.
I guess you haven't read the whole thread.I'm now into day 4 without any sort of fizzy drink. To be honest, its been quite easy, though I never claimed I was addicted, I just recognised I drank more than I probably should. However, I'm due to meet up with my dad tonight at his local for a few hours, so I shall have to see what alternatives are available. Maybe, as suggested, an alcohol free lager might be on the cards.
Funny how you take the P and then you get loads of people selecting me as Karma's next target, like you have the right to select a target on Karma's behalf. Karma, if it exists, does what it does, when it likes to, on it's own terms. So those people should consider Karma might not like such use of it's name is such vain. It may strike your down in return... 
Or is that fate?
As for mystical balance of good and bad luck though, I figure I'm still playing catch-up from my childhood.
Anyhow, addiction. Addiction only happens when you let your animalistic hormones rule your human mind. Hormones are there specifically to make you act without thinking. Pretty sad that the great and all powerful human lets the dumb animal's hormones win so often. Understand yourself. Take command of your life with that supposed abundance of intelligence you have available. Recognise when the commands of the dumb animal act. Override them with intelligence, at will.
Or is that fate?
As for mystical balance of good and bad luck though, I figure I'm still playing catch-up from my childhood.
Anyhow, addiction. Addiction only happens when you let your animalistic hormones rule your human mind. Hormones are there specifically to make you act without thinking. Pretty sad that the great and all powerful human lets the dumb animal's hormones win so often. Understand yourself. Take command of your life with that supposed abundance of intelligence you have available. Recognise when the commands of the dumb animal act. Override them with intelligence, at will.
I think the problem is, when you read it on here it doesn't come across as being tongue in cheeck unless you put one of these in it somewhere.
You massive cnunt
On a more serious note - I've recently being told I've got low platelets - that could mean I'm either going to die of cancer (ala andy Whitfeild of spartacus fame - fit as a friggin fiddle and a bloody good actor too, similar age to me) or just one of those random things. Off to see a haematologist about it soon. I'm pretty fit, not fat, eat well, don't kill babies or kittens etc......it kinda struck a nerve.
You massive cnunt
On a more serious note - I've recently being told I've got low platelets - that could mean I'm either going to die of cancer (ala andy Whitfeild of spartacus fame - fit as a friggin fiddle and a bloody good actor too, similar age to me) or just one of those random things. Off to see a haematologist about it soon. I'm pretty fit, not fat, eat well, don't kill babies or kittens etc......it kinda struck a nerve.
i'd say i used to drink far too much coke/irn bru. IIRC about 2l bottle a day, minimum.
then started doing more sport and seem to have cut down, but generally i'll still have a pint glass worth with dinner or a 500ml bottle at lunch or both.
Sadly i like the taste and i wouldn't say its sugar that the addiction if anything it would be the caffeine!!
I go through phases where i cut it out for maybe a week, i get a cracking headache from day 3 till day 5, then i'm fine then i end up drinking a glass of it and back to square one!
So if you want to get out of the habbit, drink water and do lots of sport, you'll find you hate fizzy drinks whilst you do sport as you are to gassy for it!
but sadly so much leads to death now, for example, stop drinking the coke, go for a run and forget to look left & right and BANG, a bus hits you!.... when looking back you'd go "at least coke would have killed me later in life"
As i'm finishing typing i'm not sure why i'm typing this but have decided i've rambled too much and should just leave it instead of delete!!
then started doing more sport and seem to have cut down, but generally i'll still have a pint glass worth with dinner or a 500ml bottle at lunch or both.
Sadly i like the taste and i wouldn't say its sugar that the addiction if anything it would be the caffeine!!
I go through phases where i cut it out for maybe a week, i get a cracking headache from day 3 till day 5, then i'm fine then i end up drinking a glass of it and back to square one!
So if you want to get out of the habbit, drink water and do lots of sport, you'll find you hate fizzy drinks whilst you do sport as you are to gassy for it!
but sadly so much leads to death now, for example, stop drinking the coke, go for a run and forget to look left & right and BANG, a bus hits you!.... when looking back you'd go "at least coke would have killed me later in life"
As i'm finishing typing i'm not sure why i'm typing this but have decided i've rambled too much and should just leave it instead of delete!!
Rusty1 said:
i'd say i used to drink far too much coke/irn bru. IIRC about 2l bottle a day, minimum.
then started doing more sport and seem to have cut down, but generally i'll still have a pint glass worth with dinner or a 500ml bottle at lunch or both.
Sadly i like the taste and i wouldn't say its sugar that the addiction if anything it would be the caffeine!!
I go through phases where i cut it out for maybe a week, i get a cracking headache from day 3 till day 5, then i'm fine then i end up drinking a glass of it and back to square one!
So if you want to get out of the habbit, drink water and do lots of sport, you'll find you hate fizzy drinks whilst you do sport as you are to gassy for it!
but sadly so much leads to death now, for example, stop drinking the coke, go for a run and forget to look left & right and BANG, a bus hits you!.... when looking back you'd go "at least coke would have killed me later in life"
As i'm finishing typing i'm not sure why i'm typing this but have decided i've rambled too much and should just leave it instead of delete!!
http://www.bangor.ac.uk/news/full.php.en?nid=8552&tnid=8552then started doing more sport and seem to have cut down, but generally i'll still have a pint glass worth with dinner or a 500ml bottle at lunch or both.
Sadly i like the taste and i wouldn't say its sugar that the addiction if anything it would be the caffeine!!
I go through phases where i cut it out for maybe a week, i get a cracking headache from day 3 till day 5, then i'm fine then i end up drinking a glass of it and back to square one!
So if you want to get out of the habbit, drink water and do lots of sport, you'll find you hate fizzy drinks whilst you do sport as you are to gassy for it!
but sadly so much leads to death now, for example, stop drinking the coke, go for a run and forget to look left & right and BANG, a bus hits you!.... when looking back you'd go "at least coke would have killed me later in life"
As i'm finishing typing i'm not sure why i'm typing this but have decided i've rambled too much and should just leave it instead of delete!!
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