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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsVery disappointed in myself. Back on Coke.
An enabler brought it to me.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)It's the only thing that ever works.
And, in my experience with abusers in my family and circle of friends, the drug itself tells you that you can't or don't need to disconnect to these people, but deep inside you stay connected to them because the drug wants you to.
Disconnect, let them go, they'll get over it.
Good luck, have strength, you can and will do it.
Denninmi
(6,581 posts)To clarify, I mean this stuff:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_Zero
My enabler got it 4 12 packs for $10 at Kroger.
I was off it about a month. I'll probably bottom out on Diet Dew.
Lord, Give me strength.
Perhaps the Devil made me do it.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Next week it'll be $100/gram!
Denninmi
(6,581 posts)McDonald's promotion, any size soft drink for $1000.
Time to buy Mickey D's stock if that promo flies.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)antiquie
(4,299 posts)I was to use it on my hair.
HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)Sissyk
(12,665 posts)About 3 foot diameter.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,417 posts)sammytko
(2,480 posts)tastes so much better than blah coke.
Orrex
(63,224 posts)sammytko
(2,480 posts)alarimer
(16,245 posts)It's a bad habit, I know, but I can't quit.
Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)When I shop, I get Diet or Zero. But every now and then I'll buy a single bottle of Mexican Coke and go flying off the wagon.
HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)We sell it where I work. It's all I drink at break time when I'm working.
Fortunately I only work three nights a week.
I can't stand "diet" or "light/Lite" anything.
sammytko
(2,480 posts)HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)The only sweetener listed is sugar. HFCS does not appear on the list.
marzipanni
(6,011 posts)newcriminal
(2,190 posts)I stopped cold turkey. Can't believe I made it through the summer without even one. It's been 8 months and I don't miss it at all.
Revanchist
(1,375 posts)But then she's prone to develop bezoars due to complications from diabetes. The acid in Coke helps to keep them forming and can also break them up http://www.gastrohep.com/classcases/classcases.asp?id=47
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Denninmi
(6,581 posts)Way cheaper than that, it would take lot less than that to get me out of my pants.