Choose your vices wisely

If your vice is soda, and you drink 8 regular cokes a day, then clearly you have some cutting back to do. Simple stuff like that you start small, and begin replacing 3 or 4 of those sodas/day with water. Eventually you think more and more water, less soda, until your down to about 1 or 2/week. I love people like this, because your vices are one at a time, and at first it's simple. Switching from white bread to wheat, to whole grain. Replacing mashed potatoes with a sweet potato, to vegetables. Fatty snacks can be replaced with fruit. These are simple fixes. Things so simple, yet can make a whole world of difference. You may find that in that time replacing all of those sodas with water, you've lost 10lbs in a month. Without even changing EATING habits, just drinking habits. What do you say to the person who doesn't have many "vices" but still needs to lose weight?

Even the healthiest people have their stuff. Like my mom tries to act like miss health queen, but I'm pretty sure she will eat mayonnaise or some sort of cream based sauce, in some fashion, every day. I consider myself very health conscious as well, but there's no way in hell I'm giving up coffee WITH half and half. Don't get my wrong, I've tried to do the stevia with almond milk. It's not the same, I'm sorry. I've tried to give it up completely and drink organic decaf tea instead. You would've thought aliens took over my body for that 3 week timeframe when I was a raging bitch without my coffee every morning. Just ask my husband, trust me, he will tell you. Yeah, for those of you who know, yes Caitlin Hanrahan/Mundy, gave up coffee for a period of time. A short period yes, but I did attempt it. And no, it wasn't worth it. On my death bed I'll be wishing I had those three weeks back, because I should've just said fuck it, and had a cup of coffee. Now if you're a 6 pack of equal or splenda/day person, you might want to consider using stevia all natural sweetener because aspartame is the pits. Just saying..

So obviously there are things in our lives that we will be unwilling, or unable to give up (ie the coffee). To this day, I'm wondering if I'll be able to do decaf when I'm pregnant. I just don't know. What are some of your vices? Could you turn a once/day habit into a once/week, if you REALLY had to? Would you even want to? Would you at least consider giving up that one meal/snack/drink you have almost daily to make it an occasional treat?

Just curious. Feedback. Don't be shy ;)