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So I was going to write about exercising with a newborn today, which is fitting since we do “Mommy and Me Yoga” on Thursdays, but since it helps me stay focused to post daily, I’ll save that topic for tomorrow.  Instead, since I’m a little short on time today, I wanted to share my love of some of the new diet sodas out there.  Yes, I know that diet soda is probably not very good for me – so many chemicals, artificial this and that, and may have some undesirable effects like encouraging diabetes and insulin resistance – but the research isn’t super clear and I love it and it’s no calories and I like my water and all, but I can only have so much water, especially after 9 months of being pregnant and drinking lots of water from 32 weeks on to keep contractions at bay following a scare (I must’ve overdone it on the water since my little girl was actually late and had to be evicted by the pitocin fairy).  Anyway, I discovered this while pregnant and no, I’m not ashamed that I could not kick the diet soda habit while pregnant.  When you can’t eat or smell chicken or fish and spend months feeling queasy, you need a few things to hold on to… like Cherry Coke Zero.  Brought me back to my Cherry Coke drinking high school days – you know when I was thin as a rail and drank regular pop and didn’t gain an ounce because I was so athletic and thin.  Yeah, those were good times and yet I still thought I was fat.  Ah, the foolishness of youth – to be that weight again!  Cherry Coke Zero is not alone in the diet cherry soda business – there’s also Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi, equally good since I don’t discriminate between Coke and Pepsi – just anti-RC cola, Harry Caray Cola (can you tell where I’m from… maybe I should use the word pop again ), and basically all generic colas.  And in my household Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi wins the day.  Why?  It’s not the hubs – he likes his soda cherry-free.  Nope, simply because it’s available on Fresh Direct, my local online grocer, and since I don’t have a car, all heavy things get delivered.  Yum, totally hits the spot.