The more I've learned about food and nutrition, the more I've tried to better my diet. But even when I'm eating an otherwise exclusively healthy diet, I always started my morning with a Diet Coke. Everyone's got to have a guilty pleasure, right?

I don't know exactly when or how it started, but for as long as I can remember, probably for at least 15 years, I've drank two Diet Cokes every morning. A couple of years ago I cut down from two cans to one a day, and just left it at that. And when they came out with the Black Cherry Vanilla flavour it became my new favourite, and I've been drinking that for the past many months. Recently I've been increasingly less happy about "having" to have a D.C. in the A.M., but always rationalized it (I'm good at rationalizing things to my benefit) as being so much better than the coffee obsessions/addictions of others.

About a week ago I was running low and went to the store to get more soda. Much to my chagrin, the shelves contained no Black Cherry Vanilla Diet Coke. I went to another store, and they were out as well. A peek at the D.C. website reveals that there are currently six flavours, and B.C.V. is not listed as one! Oh dear, my favourite drink has been discontinued!

Well, I will use this as my reason/excuse/sign from the deities that I no longer need to drink soda in the morning. If I can't have the flavour I really like, I'll just stop buying it altogether. It's been a few days now and I miss the taste of it just a little bit, but it's not so bad. I think I'll live.