We have free coffee and soda dispensers at work, in this tiny kitchen area down the hall. I don’t actually drink coffee or tea. Never bought into the Starbucks habit, and I hope I never do. In fact, give me a mocha latte and I’ll have an enormous headache after drinking it. However, I do drink a lot of diet soda. Often Pepsi or Coke works as my caffeine kicker. I know, healthy, huh? I’ve been trying to cut back, though. Making myself drink water, milk, juice, whatever I can substitute.
Especially since I saw this picture the other day:
http://pics.obra.se/0616_pepsi.jpg
It helps put things into perspective to know that I know my stomach lining is slowly being eaten away for the sake of waking up each morning.
So what’s your wake-up vice? I’ve never been a morning person, and sometimes I resort to splashing freezing cold water in my face right as I stumble into the bathroom. Other times, I just suffer through that warmed-over zombie phase until my brain turns on around…oh…usually noon at the earliest. Anyone have some early morning remedies? And don’t tell me “get to bed earlier” because that’s asking way too much. (That and I do a lot of my more focused writing in the wee hours.)
I see that smile.
Sigh, although I don’t always like doing this regimens myself, exercise before a breakfast of protein and making sure you get a few minutes of sunlight (if possible) are pretty good at getting the body in motion.
Pepsi is real bad… ick. I drank diet Pepsi for a year straight and stopped when I started having sharp pains in my stomach after drinking it. Now I know why that was.
What is this thing known as sunlight?
I’ve had the rare occasion of working out way early, and yeah, it helps, but if it’s left up to my dubious willpower, I rarely am able to slither out from under the covers and stumble through my workout routine. Though I have found that working out helps when I’m stuck on a mental knot in my writing.
Why can’t healthy stuff taste like candy and getting in shape feel like sitting in a hot tub?
Chocolate is my favourite method of administering caffeine. Of course, chocolate also contains sugar and fat.
On the other hand, however, too much soda can dissolve the enamel off your teeth and leach the minerals out of your bones. Eek!
Hrm. Good points.
But, then again, I drink coffee. Coffee and me used to be woeful enemies, until I learned it can be tolerable (and sometimes enjoyable) as a latte. Lattes aren’t good for you either, though. Hrrrrmmm.
I don’t like to get out of bed either, so I hear you there.