Diet coke addiction

I've recently ditched the fags and seem to have replaced one addiction with another - Diet Coke! At the moment this fizzy drink is filling the hole left by ciggies. I can't seem to give up drinking it. I love it , I need it , I will have it!

Seriously, I think I now need to give this up as much as I needed to kick cigarettes. I thought giving up smoking was tough. But this is just as much of a problem.

I actually didn't know how addicted I was to diet coke until I gave up smoking!

Drinking it seems to take my mind off smoking. I'm getting through a litre or more a day, more if I go out and quaff a few cans while shopping, driving or whatever.

I must try and ditch the coke, because it's time to get fit and healthy. No point in fooling myself that the diet version is ok - surely the chemicals in all fizzy drinks are harmful?

Maybe I'll switch to water,100% juice or... beer. No not beer. I'll have to replace it with something though. Any suggestions ?

Best hangover cure for alcohol

I need sleep today, I am so hung over from the weekend. Got to find myself the best hangover cure in the world today. How do we get a hangover in the first place ? It is usually when we drink to much alcohol. When we are out parting and drink too many alcoholic drinks we may feel sick the next morning and have a headache. I came across a good list of best hangover cures over at www.rateitall.com.

Again it would be advisable not to drink in the first place. One of my friends takes berocca for his hangover and another drinks a pint of water at night. I think we all have to find or own individual cures or remedies. If you have a problem with drinking too much alcohol, maybe you should contact your nearest Alcoholics Anonymous.

The cigarette dream

Dreaming of cigarettes again last night.

I don't think I will ever smoke again but my dreams seem so real.

When I wake up after a smoking dream I feel so bad and disgusted with myself that I smoked.

Then I realise with great delight that I am still off them and have more of chance everyday of staying off them for good.

I hope I am not heading down that road again where I will talk myself into smoking again !

Bird flu hits britain

Bird flu reared its ugly ahead again this week, with an outbreak at Bernard Matthews plc Suffolk farm. It's the biggest outbreak ever in Europe, with an estimated 159,000 birds culled as a result.

I remember around this time last year, there were various rumblings about bird flu, and the possible pandemic it could cause. As leaflets were distributed and news items galore warned of the possibility of mutation into the human strain, I must admit feeling mildly panicky. I was pregnant at the time and may have over-reacted in my maternal state by constantly needing to discuss it with my partner, detailing all the possible doomsday scenarios. Eventually, the subject seemed to die down, there were no more news items about it and I recall commenting last summer that 'bird flu died a death'.

Now its back and I'm reading about the same issues, although now on a much larger scale. I'm comforting myself by agreeing with government calls for calm, thinking it's logical to assume we've nothing to fear when it hasn't even mutated into the human strain and even if it does it's extremely difficult to contract -

"At the moment in the United Kingdom, the general public still have more chance of winning the lottery than getting bird flu," said Jim Robertson, a virologist at Britain's national institute for biological standards and control.

Good ol' Jimbo - that makes me feel much much better..... Until I come across another field of thought where 'Scientists' believe it is only a matter of time before the present strain H5N1 mixes with human flu, mutates and then spreads from person to person! Although the estimated death toll from this varies greatly, from 50 million to 100's of millions worldwide, all of a sudden my chances of winning the lottery seem to have soared!