Giving up soda for a month, so far, has been a breeze. It was, and is, a great way to start my campaign for less. My hope is to let abstaining from soda turn into renouncing coffee - next month, for a month, and only a month. The idea of foregoing coffee is painful, very painful. My car pool companion is already teasing me about visiting Starbucks every morning, were I will get to watch and smell the most useful of brown liquids from a distance. It is just not nice. I suppose the real victims in all this will be my students, to whom I will provide advance warning. Honestly, I do not drink that much coffee: 1-2 cups daily. However, those 1-2 cups are the only protection against a larger contemporary blight known as "Morning Melissa".
Solace will be discovered in tea, because for one month, beginning March 18, I will reject coffee for 30 days. Now you may see tea as cheating, and you would be correct. In my defense though, Topical Fast is meant to be process of self discovery. Finding mindfulness and new aspects of consumption to appreciate through trying something different, or simply going without.
If you would like to give up something and/or be a guest contributor to Topical Fast, just drop me a note.
Come give up with me.
Thank you.
The following link, a documentary on American tea pioneer Davis Lee Hoffman, All In This Tea (2007):
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
Give Up This
Thanks to some good discussions from friends and students here is some options to get this party started.
Can I do without _______ and for how long?
meat, sugar, dairy, wheat, salt, alcohol, caffeine, soda, music, television, cellular phone, computer, email, electricity, technology, cussing, new clothes, gas, rushing, typos, water, laundry, heating/cooling, talking, sleep, money, cleaning, and even blogging.
I haven't decided what to begin with yet, let alone what durations of "give up" I will be comfortable with. For example a day without my cell phone seems easy, a week may prove more problematic with work. The important thing is to be realistic and to take baby steps. I will give up options in day, week or month intervals.
The concept of abstinence if nothing new to me having been a vegetarian once for over a decade (then I met Memphis). I even gave up talking for two days once, to my significant others delight, although he said it was "really really weird". Last summer for a "whole" three days I skipped sugar, caffeine, wheat, meat, dairy and alcohol, a purge I do not recommend concurrently unless you are sadistic. Oddly, after 24 hours the sugar addiction headaches left me, but the desire for cheese was everlasting.
ITEM 1 - SODA (Pop if you are from Michigan...)
I will give up soda for one month, and I am not talking about the Perrier either. I am referring to the good stuff, loaded with sugar and caffeine. A week would be easy considering I do not drink much soda, but a month may be slightly more difficult, but still very reasonable. If you give up soda with me, select an interval that best works for you. I think I will only miss Orangina, a soda I cannot usually afford, but very very tasty. Oh geez, I am thirsty.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1357787/Coca-cola-Pepsi-ingredient-cancer-risk-Call-ban-colouring-agent.html
Can I do without _______ and for how long?
meat, sugar, dairy, wheat, salt, alcohol, caffeine, soda, music, television, cellular phone, computer, email, electricity, technology, cussing, new clothes, gas, rushing, typos, water, laundry, heating/cooling, talking, sleep, money, cleaning, and even blogging.
I haven't decided what to begin with yet, let alone what durations of "give up" I will be comfortable with. For example a day without my cell phone seems easy, a week may prove more problematic with work. The important thing is to be realistic and to take baby steps. I will give up options in day, week or month intervals.
The concept of abstinence if nothing new to me having been a vegetarian once for over a decade (then I met Memphis). I even gave up talking for two days once, to my significant others delight, although he said it was "really really weird". Last summer for a "whole" three days I skipped sugar, caffeine, wheat, meat, dairy and alcohol, a purge I do not recommend concurrently unless you are sadistic. Oddly, after 24 hours the sugar addiction headaches left me, but the desire for cheese was everlasting.
ITEM 1 - SODA (Pop if you are from Michigan...)
I will give up soda for one month, and I am not talking about the Perrier either. I am referring to the good stuff, loaded with sugar and caffeine. A week would be easy considering I do not drink much soda, but a month may be slightly more difficult, but still very reasonable. If you give up soda with me, select an interval that best works for you. I think I will only miss Orangina, a soda I cannot usually afford, but very very tasty. Oh geez, I am thirsty.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1357787/Coca-cola-Pepsi-ingredient-cancer-risk-Call-ban-colouring-agent.html
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