While it has been an interesting week, I am beginning to realize that soda is a really bad thing, like I have realized from time to time , but I am now accepting of the need to hydrate with water due to the fact that I am being more active I am beginning to realize that I need to steer away from my soda drinking and work towards being more healthy once and for all.

For over two decades I have had a very addictive relationship with soda. Anytime I could have it, I had it. Living on my own for the past six years did not help the situation. It was the result of many arguments with my parents because they have known for many decades that it is not a beneficial thing and along with the medications that I am on it can be very detrimental for me. Yet, I had disregarded their advice and had continued to take my own stance on it.

However, in the past year, many negative consequences have happened to me that made me realize that at first, I had to sway away from caffeine. While more beneficial to my mental health, it was not as good to my physical health. My soda intake included both calorized and calorie free soda and even though some sodas said that they were caffeine free, they were indeed not because they met the minimum about for being called caffeine free.

Additionally, I have been attending nutrition classes at our local library over the past few weeks and our recent lesson was on added sugars along with healthy beverages. While I had the healthy beverages program in the past. I had an epiphany of sorts during this one. I do believe that it has been because I have been steadier about being active and my physical health that I have realized that there is more of a necessity to steer away from soda and focus more on healthier beverages.

I know that there are benefits to drinking water instead of soda and I need to work at doing so. I know that it takes time to make things more of a habit and as I know that I have said to myself time and again that I was going to kick the habit, I feel at this point that the right things are all working themselves out and I am realizing the need to be healthier overall, including limiting the soda consumption.

While change can be a difficult thing for people that have challenges such as I, I am also starting to realize more and more that change can also be a good thing if you embrace it more and see how it works out before making a sudden judgement about how horrific it could be rather work at seeing how things could be if you give things a chance to work themselves out for a while and even make them a habit.