PowerAde has HCFS in it, Gatorade does not.

That might be why PowerAde makes me feel like crap, in that over-sugared, ready-to-puke way.

We have powdered Gatorade in the house (my DH drinks it at Frisbee) so maybe I'll check it for HFCS and try a dilution of that.

My neighborhood drug store has started carrying some "gourmet" soda, with no HFCS. It's quite nummy. I stopped drinking non-diet soda about 8 years ago because it made me sleepy, but the non-HFCS stuff doesn't seem to do that. Plus I figure I'm morally obligated to buy it....

So going to my eye doctor is almost twice as much as the co-pay for my regular doctor. So I tried calling my regular doctor and they're closed for lunch!

I love both Gatorade and the coconut water stuff. I find them both refreshing and delicious.

There's always Recharge, which is the Non-Coconut Hippie Version of the stuff.

I've mostly sworn off main line commercial sodas (though I'll go with a coke, if nothing else, maybe once, twice a week). I won't buy any other kind of juice beverage unless it is actually 100% juice. I used to drink fruit juice corn syrup cocktails, but I won't touch them any more.

I have almost entirely replaced my soda/soft beverage consumption with Izze sparkling juices. Each serving (1 bottle- 355ml) contains: 130 calories, 0g fat, 20mg sodium, 29g of carbs, all from natural fruit sugars.

Ingredients: pure juice from white grape, apple, blackberry (the flavor I'm currently drinking), lemon and raspberry juice concentrates, sparkling water, citric acid, natural flavor, red grape juice concentrate (for color).

I think it would have been different if it were the finals, but I don't recall the recent health of the Redwings--is this continued good performance, or a turnaround?

ita, the coach of the Red Wings is a McGill grad, and his lucky tie is his McGill tie.

I had horrible anxiety last night about my sick cat. It's hard when you don't have a diagnosis, but something isn't quite right. This became general anxiety about my life. Which resulted in a sleepless night for me. So I watched a lot of that hockey game. I like to watch sports on low volume because the cadence of the play by play often lulls me to sleep (it comes from having a sports nut dad and a bedroom above the TV)-it didn't work, it totally got me more worked up.

I've been trying to wean myself off pop because I don't need either the sugar or the aspartame. But I really like pop with certain foods. I try to drink water during the day and have Caffeine Free Diet Pepsi with supper.

Speaking of contact lenses, I had my lens case in my hand this morning and I could have sworn I put it in my purse. But no. I wonder where I'm going to find it when I get home this evening.

I seem to have permanently broken up with Dr. Pepper. Thanks to Paul McKenna, no less.

My favorite beverage these days is either orange juice in fuzzy water or orange juice mixed with plain yogurt for the perfect Dreamcicle(tm) experience.