My new drink of choice

I'm addicted to caffeine. It's not a bad thing, unless you move to a foreign country where they don't sell your favorite caffeinated beverage that you've been addicted to since high school. You become like a junkie, trying new products to get your "fix". Yeah, not having Mountain Dew over here troubled me for about the first 2 months. I was trying to like coffee, then tried tea. I could get Pepsi and Coke, but they have so much carbonation I was burping all the time. I tried the soft drink of Scotland called Irn Bru, but it just wasn't quite right. They have Red Bull here, and that worked for a while, but those little 8 ounces go down so quickly. Then I tried Lucazade Energy and I liked it. It was a happy balance of a soft drink in a bottle with a nice selection of flavors, but I still wanted something with a little more caffeine. I did get a fix of Mountain Dew for about a week, when Dena found that there is a Baskin Robbins Ice Cream shop in town that sells it. She bought me a 12 pack. I love her! It wasn't cheap though, and it was the only place in town to get it. Then one day while I was at a gas station about ready to grab a Lucazade Energy, I noticed a new fancy bottle with "Caffeine Boost" on it. So, I bought 2 and just about instantly fell in love. The only flavor is Lemon Plus, and it tastes just right. It's in a bottle, so it doesn't spill in the car, and there are 80 mg of caffeine in a 500 mL bottle, which is just about what Mountain Dew has in a 16 oz bottle. The stuff is lovely and makes me happy!

The combination of walking around town more, and not drinking so many liquid calories had made me loose almost 15 lbs. When I left the US, I was around 223, and now I'm around 208. We'll see how long I stay at this new weight.