Lent

I'm going to have a good bash at cutting my sugar consumption.

I never previously had a sweet tooth - always preferring savoury, cheese, cold meets, fruit etc - but since I killed the booze, I seem to have developed a worrying propensity to binge eat sweets - and I've even dabbled with awful energy drinks?!

I'm not going to go all "life-style craze" with it - ie I will still have bread and fruit juice etc - just will be avoiding the known obvious naughties, most of the time.  It shows Lenten willing !

I've been trying to cut my sugar consumption. I'm on at least six Coca-Cola cans a day. I'm trying to drink more water. I'm hoping it will make my stomach better. 

Hello Fantasy, I'm Number.  Nice to meet you.

Coca Cola really isn't great for you - like you didn't already know that !

Personally, I drink a ridiculously high volume of coffee per day - between 12-16 spoons of instant per day.

I have no ill effects (to the best of my knowledge) - but it's weird and I do want to change this.

Whilst your and my habits aren't brilliant by any standards - it could be SO much worse !

Many autists seem to struggle with addictive behaviours in one way or another.

I bashed booze on the head over 6 months ago without any struggle, so I don't expect my Lenten sugar hiatus to cause me too many problems.  Thanks for your well wishing, and I return my best wishes to you on limiting your brown fizz.

See you around this place.

Hello Fantasy, I'm Number.  Nice to meet you.

Coca Cola really isn't great for you - like you didn't already know that !

Personally, I drink a ridiculously high volume of coffee per day - between 12-16 spoons of instant per day.

I have no ill effects (to the best of my knowledge) - but it's weird and I do want to change this.

Whilst your and my habits aren't brilliant by any standards - it could be SO much worse !

Many autists seem to struggle with addictive behaviours in one way or another.

I bashed booze on the head over 6 months ago without any struggle, so I don't expect my Lenten sugar hiatus to cause me too many problems.  Thanks for your well wishing, and I return my best wishes to you on limiting your brown fizz.

See you around this place.

It has been said to me that I drink too much coffee and I sometimes have coke (despite hating the fizz) - I’m not a big drinker, usually only Budweiser or similar as I can’t really drink wine or Prosecco (hate the taste) - I had my first drink in a gay venue when I first came out over 30 years ago, but after I stopped going to gay bars over 15 years ago, I really cut back on the drink (drunken Irishman I know lol) - thing is, I was a Pioneer before I had my first drink so broke my Plege from Confirmation and lost my Pioneer Pin - Irish people in my experience drink far less than English people here in the U.K. from what I’ve seen in my 20 years in Manchester, but the students drinking habits never change - once, I was on the 08.05 sailing (Irish Ferries Ulysses) out of Dublin with a group of English students and by the time the ferry arrived in Holyhead at Noon they were “tanked up” 

Hello Number, so nice to meet you. 

Thank you for the well wishes. I'm hoping I'll be successful but if not, I'm not going to be too upset, like you said it could be a lot worse than it is. I don't feel any truly bad health effects other than causing gas and sore stomach. 

See you around!

I knew someone who was hospitalised for drinking too much coffee and she nearly died, I think she said it made her heart go too fast or something. I think she had more coffee than you, or stronger than instant, but be careful. I say this as I am sure you understand from a position of caring not of trying to tell you what to do with your own body.