Jim Jamesson

Recently, I took a break from playing a game of hoops and decided to catch up on the NBA.com blog to make sure I didn’t miss anything. (Ok, not really). One thing did come to my attention though, and it was that Caron Butler, a Forward for the Wizards, had lost 11 pounds just by giving up his seriously intense addiction to Mountain Dew. Caron Butler writes:

Un-Doing the Dew This Summer

I lost 11 pounds this summer by giving up Mountain Dew. That’s right Mountain Dew. A lot of people don’t know I’m a Mountain Dew addict so I guess this is my confession.

To try and give this up was CRAZY for me! I was going through withdrawals. I was in the bed sweating. My wife would turn over in the bed and ask “Are you OK?” .Honestly, those first two weeks without The Dew was the roughest two weeks of my life. I’m talking headaches, sweats and everything. Before that I drank at least six 12 ounce Mountain Dews a day.

It was so bad at one point that I had to have a cold one right there at the night stand before I went to bed. I had to get the coasters and let it drip a lil’ bit and just have it waiting on me. Come 2 a.m.., I’d wake up out of my sleep, I’d pop one open and hear the fizz sound…and just down it! Then I always had to have another one in the morning when I woke up. Before practice I had one too and before games I would knock back two.

I wonder why he doesn’t consider Diet Mountain Dew? I easily breeze through a 12 pack a day of Diet Dew, which completely eliminates the need for any kind of those horrible sounding withdrawal symptoms.

So Caron, why not try the diet? After a couple of weeks, you’ll hardly tell the difference between Splenda and the real sugar. As long as you continue to buy the diet dew, when the times you are at Mc Donald’s or some shit and they don’t have diet, because you’re going with carbonated vs. cans or two liters, the difference in taste because of the fountain drink machine negates that of the difference between sugar and Splenda, thereby causing no side effects or aftershocks of weaning from Diet Mountain Dew back to the regular sugar’d Mountain Dew, and vise versa.

Take it from an experienced Diet Mountain Dew drinker. Diet Mountain Dew is the ONLY way to go. Of course, the fridge in my barn at this very moment seems to tell a different story…

I recommend Diet Mountain Dew even though I still drink regular Mountain Dew.

Check out Caron’s blog here >>