I can understand wanting to avoid those caffiene withdrawal headaches... if I don't have a coffee each day i get them... but occassionally I take an asprin instead of caving into the coffee. I don't usually add sugar to my coffee though... that's the trouble with softdrink: all that sugar is not worth it. Eliminate softdrink and I'm certain you'll see a few kilo's go along with it.
it's defintely about finding balance Bath - i can't drink coffee and when i get a headache of any sort, nothing except high doses of codeine will help - i have minimal sugar most of the time (extremely low GI diet here) so the sugar in the coke every few days at the moment is, in my opinion, not a big drama. if i was using it every day on top of a heap of other sugar, i'd admit it was a problem - but i'd rather not load myself up on pain meds if i can avoid it kwim??


(i'll just footnote this by saying i've had to have surgery on both my wrist and my ankle that had me on pain meds in the lead up for periods of six to eight months - panadeine forte for both - i was unable to function without the pain meds - having been essentially dependant on them for long periods of time, i don't want to go back down that path... the bad bits of soft drink don't, in my mind, equate to the addiction to pain killers - definitely don't want to go there again... hope that makes sense...)