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Good bye Pepsi, Coke, and Sprite

At this point im up to about 30 minutes of cardio working up a sweat. Although the calorie burn status on the cardio machine isn't accurate I use it to get a rough general idea. On this day I did some "serious work" burned 250 calories. I'm thinking to myself man 30 mins of cardio 250 calories that's got to be close to a pound of fat burned... WRONG!
I searched how many calories burned are needed to burn a lb of fat. The answer 3,500 or 7 hours of cardio. I needed to increase my cardio but was physically limited and needed to find another answer to get under my goal of 300lbs.
Previously I'd been given the option for bypass surgery given that I quit drinking soda for life. I couldn't give up soda but I can cut down. Instead of 2-3 sodas for dinner ( even more when I ate out) I drank 1 soda. With soda containing roughly 150 calories cutting out 1-2 sodas was equal to doing 15-30 mins of cardio.
Now I'm thinking if I can give up soda completely for 6 months I'll have a good chance at reaching 299 lbs and can go back to drinking soda once I reach my goal.
Now the rough part. I've never experienced withdrawals until I quit drinking soda. I needed some caffeine and sugar. It got so bad that I'd fall asleep on the floor with ice packs on my head. Fortunately I was able to find a 1 a day energy multi vitamin that had just enough caffeine to cut the withdrawals and eventually was able to cut out the caffeine all together.
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