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[speedlolita]

Or just avoid soft drinks entirely? I used to drink Dekavita C and BOSS coffees mainly from machines while in Japan. Actually, I bought a shedload of Pepsi Max bottles when they had those bottle toppers (eBay gold they were), but mainly gave them away to people I worked with or staff in the shop I bought them from (!).

Well, yeah. A nice chilled bottle of Evian beats out any soft drink when you're thirsty anyway.

[kryss]

I was kind of against the idea of bottled water until I tried San Pellegrino...Now I feel all posh and stuff drinking it.

[speedlolita]

Evian is the only water I can really justify buying. It genuinely tastes good over tap water.

[kryss]

You should try some SP. Change your opinion you shall.

[speedlolita]

I'll check it out.

[randombs]

Or just avoid soft drinks entirely?

That's madness. But if it helps, here's a typical randombs week in the form of drink:

Weekday: milk in the morning with cereal. A glass of orange or apple juice if I have it, otherwise a tall glass of water. Green tea at work in the morning and maybe again in the afternoon. Water from the machine the rest of the time or I can sneak a bottle of evian occasionally. Evening is water with dinner or maybe juice again.

Weekend: coffee or tea with breakfast. Possibly a glass or two of coke if I go out for dinner(or whiskey and ginger ale, or sake or something) which isn't too often. Water or juice any other time

So in short, I have less than one can of soft drink per week.

I developed a technique to avoid soft drinks. I often get cravings for coke so I just visualise myself drinking a coke and the urge subsides. I did this because at my hotel job we had coke machines in the staff canteens beckoning me to drink from their bountiful bosoms and I didn't want to succumb.

[kryss]

Luckily we only have Pepsi on tap in the restaurant at work, but basically unlimited coffee and tea. I like to take Celestial Seasons Apple Cinnamon tea to work during the winter months, gives the front desk that Christmassy smell.

[randombs]

Nice!

The hotel gave cookies to guests at checkin so the reception staff always smelled lovely

Plus, unlimited cookies although I overdid it and got sick of them quickly

[kryss]

Yeah my place is too cheap to do that.

['Press Start']

Next time you fancy some full fat Coke just think of this

That is nasty but then so are the chemicals that replace sugar in the diet fizzy drinks. I would not touch either as both are rubbish for your liver, metabolic rate and general long term health.

['Press Start']

I try to follow the "Primal Diet"..

I did not think the Paleolithic Diet included the butter and cream you said you have increased eating?

[randombs]

This thread is turning depressing, so:

1) One of the hard drives in our file server's RAID array has gone to pot so I had to call Dell Japan's support. I tried to take the easy option and use their online chat+Google Translate but it's not for business support

So I called them and after the Japanese menu rambling on it said PRESS 9 FOR ENGLISH SUPPORT. Yay! So I pressed 9 and was put through to Japanese support anyway!

But so far so good and I'm arranging an on-site engineer. Really, the more I do this the less nervous I'll be but it's still a bit scary. It'll be interesting to see the Japanese attitude towards 4-hour SLAs

2) Company president is visiting this week so today we're having a group lunch courtesy of the local Indian restaurant

[Lebowski]

This is fantastic, very dark and funny, I'm not sure what I just watched.

[QualityChimp]

[kryss]

I did not think the Paleolithic Diet included the butter and cream you said you have increased eating?

Do we not have a new fad diet yet?