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Starbucks Withdrawal / Diet Drink Addiction

It's been two weeks since I've had a Starbucks anything. It's insane. I work downtown in DC and there is a Starbucks on every corner. I work in suburbia VA and I can't figure out how to get across the darn street.

In our office building there is an Au bon Pain where I've spent time and money for breakfast, snacks, and lunch. You want to talk about a captive audience...

As I am writing this, I'm staring at an empty Diet Mountain Dew bottle and a mini Diet Coke bottle. For those of you that stay at Courtyard Marriott properties, here are the things you need to know:
  1. There is free wireless
  2. You get free breakfast coupons
  3. The work out facilities are par to mediocre
  4. They have a ridiculous number of channels on TV
  5. The beds aren't exactly comfortable
  6. They serve Diet cokes in those little glass bottles that make my hands look like Shaq's
But I digress. I don't know when I became addicted to Diet drinks or just caffeine in general. I've heard and read that Diet drinks actually supress the chemical that tells you that you are satisfied and therefore you eat more. That's not cool because I drink a lot of Diet colas. 
For those of you that enter this professsion, caffeine will become a major food group in your diet before you know it. When things get bad, you'll turn to 5 hour energy.
Do yourself a favor and get some intervention when that occurs.

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