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Welcome to the A2Z English Podcast. My name is Jack, and I'm here with my co -host, Sochill.
And today we are doing, a challenge episode again and Sochill, do you remember what our last challenge was?
Yes, it was to quit added sugars for a week.
Right, and that also means artificial sweeteners as well because I'm pretty good about like not eating sugar, but when it comes to artificial sweeteners, I'm like off the charts.
It's terrible. Yeah, so we did fail miserably.
I mean, I'm guessing you also failed.
I definitely failed miserably.
I want to say I didn't even really try.
I mean, it's not like I didn't try at all, but it kind of hit me at a bad week because I visited Mexico Right and I actually eat less added sugars when I'm in Mexico naturally anyway But they're using real cane sugar right in a lot of stuff there okay, so they used to and that was actually like better, but then the last president not Claudia Scheinbaum, but the one before Manuel Lopez Obrador he banned the, like, he taxed companies for putting sugar in drinks, so then they start they went to artificial sweeteners.
So when Mexico exports Coca -Cola and other sodas with cane sugar but in the, in Mexico itself they only sell soda with a mix of sugar and like fake sweeteners.
Oh, like xylitol or or aspartame or something like that?
Yeah. And, and real sugar, so it's a mix.
So you can drink like a big Coca Cola for half the calories.
And the taste is not that different, really, like it doesn't taste like a diet soda full on.
Okay. But it just, I don't know, kind of sucks.
I miss the cane sugar days.
Yeah, my friend told me it's amazing.
It's like a you know compared to high fructose corn syrup, which is what we put in coke in America And then you go to Mexico and you drink a coke and you're like this is a an entirely different experience Like it's so good.
It's very it's like sweet.
It's more sweet and it's just it's really delicious It's it just gives it like a totally different flavor and actually I think that it was kind of a positive thing But we'll have to talk about this on another episode Because I will wait forever.
But just quickly, it supported local sugar cane production, which is something that small farmers actually live off of.
And so I think that that was actually beneficial.
But because of the obesity rates in Mexico, that's why the last president decided to tax real sugars in every product.
And so now all the Coke sold in Mexico and all the other sodas sold in Mexico have a blend of sugar and fake sugars like sucralose or xylitol or whatever.
And so the flavor is a lot worse.
Yeah, yeah. Okay. Well, okay.
That was that was a interesting diversion.
We'll have to dig in deeper to that.
Yeah. Well, we might have to go in there sometimes.
If our listeners are interested.
But yeah, anyway, I did fail the no sugar added.
Me too. I think one of the big things for me is that I absolutely love drinking my calories.
And in Mexico one thing that we drink a lot is abras prezcas which are just it's just like juice with, it's like the fresh fruit blended with water and sometimes they do put cane sugar in it or sometimes they don't.
But usually yeah it does have some added sugars like It has some cane sugar or something in it.
So, I think that's an issue for me, like I really love drinking my calories and like that's actually healthier, but like in the US, I'm always drinking soda, basically.
Yeah, I drinking calories is problematic because they add up so quickly and it doesn't feel like you did anything.
You know what I mean, like if I eat 500 calories, I feel like, well, okay, I ate 500 calories, but if I drink 500 calories, I'd be like, nah, that was 75 calories, you know.
Yeah, like you don't think of it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's bad.
Yeah. Sorry, go ahead.
No, no. I was gonna say, like the people that walk around with those big, big gulps, you know, of soda, you know, like.
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Two liters of Mountain Dew or something like that.
I realized are our listeners might not know what big gulps are there's 64 fluid ounce of soda and you can like buy them at a gas station and it's cheap.
It's like $1 in some sense and it's just like a big cup that contains 64 fluid ounces of soda.
So yeah, that's obviously a lot of calories.
That's more than a leader, I think if I'm not mistaken.
Yeah, it's crazy. And for our listeners out there, like if you were to buy a liter of water.
It's probably more expensive than a liter of soda.
That's how backwards it's gotten, you know?
Yeah, it is really bad.
And for me, I only drink one soda a day.
But I just think it's too much because it adds up like over a week, a course of a week, I drank seven sodas in a week, like that just seems kind of expensive.
I drank at least five sodas in a week, because some days I don't drink soda, but I drink probably at least five a week.
And so to me, It's excessive because growing up I probably only had like soda on very special occasions.
Like maybe once every like six months, honestly.
Yes, and my mom wouldn't give us soda.
It was drink water if you're thirsty.
I think that's why as an adult I'm like, yeah, I can do whatever I want.
I agree, I agree. It's like you gotta learn how to control yourself around this like forbidden substance and then he's, it's very addictive.
I know. The bubbles.
Yeah. And, you know, they actually, they made like my cousin's husband now what like talked about.
He also like really liked soda and he's trying to quit drinking soda.
And like apparently, there's like a medication for it for you to stop like your addiction to soda.
Wow, okay. in the US, which is crazy that they make a medicine for that nowadays.
But there's a pill for everything in the US, basically.
It's just a salt pill you put in the soda and it just makes it salty.
You don't want to drink it.
That would be better, and then you don't want to drink it.
That actually kind of sounds good though.
Yeah, that's true to Gatorade or something.
Yeah. So yeah. So I guess we're going to narrow it down this week and make sure that we, don't drink soda including diet soda this week right yeah I'm off the because I only drink diet soda but it's like it's not even a brag you know what I mean like I should just drink regular soda it's probably healthier than all the chemicals that I'm you know consuming which are you know who knows what those chemicals are to be honest yeah yeah so I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm to abstain for one week from drinking any soda.
Absolutely. Yeah okay, yeah let's do it.
I think it'll be good and if we add on our other blocks, what was it?
Five minutes of morning meditation Healthy breakfast. Five minutes of exercise, right?
Yeah, five minutes of exercise, five minutes of meditation.
Yeah, did we have another one?
I'm sure we had another one in there but there was something about a healthy breakfast, you know, like, Oh, yes.
Eating a balanced breakfast. So eating a balanced breakfast, five minutes of meditation and five minutes of exercise a day and then no soda this week.
So we'll see how we do.
I'm excited. I am too.
I think I can do this.
I can do this. Yeah.
Just drink water. We'll be like, we have, we have to do it just this week.
It's only a week. We can drink soda any other week.
We just, we just gotta do this.
I'm actually gonna buy a soda machine the day after the challenge is over.
All right, well listeners, if you guys are interested in following along on the health challenge with us, make sure to join the WeChat group or make sure to send us an email at a2zenglishpodcast at gmail .com.
Leave a comment down below at a2zenglishpodcast .com.
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