The Last Poster Wins [v30]

[Chakramaster]

Oh yeah, I used to drink Mountain Dew Code Red whenever I could find it. So delicious but... definitely ain't healthy, that's for sure.

Come to think of it, I haven't seen that stuff for sale for a long time now.

Was Mountain Dew Voltage for me. I caught myself drinking about one a day though if I had it. I know it wasn't healthy. So I started forcing myself to stop. Pretty much Gatorade now for me.

[Neo Emolga]

Yeah, even regular Mountain Dew is a heck of a lot. As a kid, I used to guzzle that stuff thinking there was nothing wrong with it. And heck, this was before the Nutrition Facts labels were mainstream.

Those labels very often make the difference between me saying "hey, this is ok" versus a "oh heck no" when it comes to what I eat and drink.

[Voltaire Magneton]

It's been ages since I last drank any soda, any time I just take a little sip its too harsh for me.

Water it is, then!

[Neo Emolga]

I think even when I have a free soda offer (or it's part of a combo), I just go for diet soda. It actually doesn't have that harsh sugar taste, but that's only when the offer is for free or I need to buy a drink to take advantage of some other offer (Boston Market often has this "buy one meal and drink and get a second meal free" that my dad and I like to cash in on).

[Noblejanobii]

I think I normally opt for diet options nowadays but I don’t turn regular if offered since I normally don’t have it much

[Neo Emolga]

It's really the calories and sugar that end up being a turn-off. They say you really should only have 2,000 calories a day and considering food alone already take up most of that, you really don't need sugary drinks to contribute.

Still, the other thing is sodium. Geez, I used to think soups were healthy and then I found most of them are close to being a stroke in a can. I've had soups that were low-sodium specific and they're great! I don't get why all that extra salt is so necessary. Can't be for the taste, that's for sure.

[Noblejanobii]

Actually fun fact that 2000 calorie recommendation isn’t actually scientifically accurate and is based on surveys of dieting adults in the US from the 1990s. When it comes to caloric intake every person’s body is different so they actually recommend using like a fitness tracker to figure out what your average caloric intake is over two weeks, then if you want to lose weight you work to lower it by 300-500 calories depending on how much your average is. But the range for an adult can actually be anywhere between 1500-3000 calories a day, so you might have more flexibility than you realize.

Don’t even get me started on sodium. I’m limited to around 1000-1500 mg a day because of my new medical condition and it is ROUGH. I’m pretty much guaranteed to have to have at least one meal a day that’s either pasta or rice because they have pretty much no sodium in them (unless you add like cheese or butter), because the combination of breakfast and lunch/dinner, regardless of what it is has such high sodium that it’ll knock out my allotted sodium for the rest of the day. I have to have pretty much exclusively eat Swiss cheese because the sodium content of all the others is too high to have regularly. Soups are pretty much a no go. Most chips, fast food, and other like junk or fried foods are out too because again, too much sodium. Most meat is out too because salt is used as a preservative so like any sort of pork or beef is just completely out and chicken is on thin ice. It depends on the brand for that.

I’ve gotten around it some with like low sodium chips and getting grilled chicken or no salt fries from fast food restaurants but you never really realize how much sodium is in stuff until you can’t have it. Like we were looking at ordering pizza a few weeks back and legitimately like I couldn’t have more than a single slice of Dominos because it was like 500 mg a slice or something. It’s nuts.

[Chakramaster]

Everyone been enjoying this pre-Christmas so far? Christmas music has begun in full swing here.

[Neo Emolga]

Haven't heard any Christmas music yet, at least not a full song. The supermarket where I shop has had a few holiday-themed promotions with little holiday jingles in the background, but not full on Christmas songs.

And yeah, they don't play music where I work either, but I'd rather hear that than hear all the conversations people are having around me.

[Voltaire Magneton]

Last time I went to the mall was the 1st week of October, and I did hear Christmas music lol