Buh Bye Starbucks

I've said this in the past before- usually because I was broke a dry dirt or needed to lose some weight before a trip, but I'm really going for it this time. No more Starbucks (insert collective gasp).

I have a torrid love affair with starbucks coffee- buying coffee in high school with Justin made me feel cool and grown up. Then I moved out from my parents house and with the real world in front of me, coffee wasn't a priority when soda was available. Made it thru my first college degree sans starbucks.

Then I started working night shift and attending college simultaneously. I'd have been better off with an IV drip I burned thru so many coffee beans. Something was missing if you didn't see me roaming the halls of the local hospital at night with a cup of coffee, or chugging as I hustled to school. Buying coffee made me friends, made the teachers appreciate me and was a great pick me up for Sarah who likes Chi Tea (blah).

Got knocked up-which doesn't seem fitting if you're married and trying, but away went the coffee. It was easy, I was always vomiting from the pregnancy- the occasional soda while shooting a wedding or chocolate milk during accounting class. I was doing it for Roman and I knew I'd be back.

The last few years drinking coffee from starbucks had become the same as a smoker and cigarettes. It has become the first thing I do in the morning, occasionally on the way to a late afternoon shoot for a pick me up, and a late night must have if I'm marathon editing. Not only was I burning a hole in my debit card, I started putting on weight. Add that to not enough time to exercise and stress and I'm 20 pounds heavier than the day I got married.

It's time to quit!

I know I will never be at my fighting (wedding day) weight again, there's a thin layer of you carried a child fat that I will forever hold onto. But damnit, I refuse to be bigger than a size 10- no way no how not going to happen.

So I quit. I'm four days in and have substituted starbucks for shamrock farms coffee milk- 4oz more, and like 1/3 the fat. I even went into a starbucks today and ordered water. I'm going to make it stick. I'd have lots more money for fun photography things if I wasn't blowing it on a beverage I can inhale between stop lights and I will ultimately feel better.

Even if it means I feel like irritable now. I will still treat myself to homemade coffee- I'm a fan of dunkin donughts grounds, but my passion for the green straw ends now.