Currently I drink 1-2 24 oz bottles of Pepsi (regular Pepsi - w/ caffeine and sugar) per day.

Most days it's one bottle. Occasionally two. And I don't slam it either, just a swallow here and a swallow there, throughout the day.

I am going through foreclosure right now and am very stressed out, anxious, struggling daily with paranoia, etc. and so I am really finding myself craving old crutches -- like sugar & simple carbs.

A friend made an astute observation the other day, "the Pepsi is your cigarettes."

Why yes, yes it is. Only I can still breathe.

I know the logical thing to do would be to kick the caffeine and sugar now, to decrease my stress load. The flip side of that though, is that I feel like I need a crutch of some type, a security blanket ... and the prospect removing that security blanket from my grasp is very upsetting. So I continue to try to soothe myself with it.

(For what it's worth, I also take probably 4 Excedrin a day, as I have persistent headaches these days too *sigh*, so cutting out the Pepsi will not get rid of the caffeine. Caffeine is a staple in my life -- I have taken Excedrin nearly daily for headaches, forever -- so the only net gain from cutting out Pepsi will be a lot less sugar.)

I can't imagine drinking coffee and energy drinks in my current state. I'm having a hard enough time as it is, juggling the caffeine input I've got now. LOL :)

:D Bailey