Another $500 Winner From Crystal Light!
Congratulations to Micha for winning the random drawing in the $500 giveaway! Thank you all for participating and thanks to random.org for giving me a means of picking a random winner! Mimi, I’m sending you an email with instructions on how to get your address to me! Thank you, Crystal light!
I’ve had a GREAT week drinking more water! The difference is pretty profound, both in my performance level and in my wallet. I ended up drinking about 80% less carbonated beverages and actually found myself craving Crystal Light over my usual drink.
The one thing I noticed a significant change in this past week was sleep quality. I have pretty frequent bouts of insomnia, mainly because my mind just won’t shut down: so much to plan, so much to do, so many projects I want to tackle. When I lay down in bed, that is often the only time during my day that I have a bit of quiet with my thoughts so they tend to take over.
This past week, however, I slept deeply every single night. It was stunning. I’m not sure if this was due to being properly hydrated for the first time in a decade or more, but since that was the only change I made, you gotta wonder. Also take into the account the amount of caffeine I normally ingest versus drinking only Crystal Light and I feel pretty confident the water made the difference.
I did fall off the wagon a time or two and go back to drinking diet carbonated drinks (As a lifelong Alabamian, I can bring myself to say “carbonated beverages” but just can’t form the word “Soda”!) but when I did, I felt at once sluggish as a result. I know this was a psychological thing and I’m not quite sure at what point I decided to go cold turkey to Crystal Light this past week but it did happen at some point and I’m awfully glad I did.
I
Feel
Great!
Coming off of a rabid caffeine/carbonation was not easy. Thank goodness for Crystal Light Energy! I discovered the individual packets of this in Wild Strawberry and used them to flavor my bottled water when out and about or to start my day off. They added a bit of caffeine to help me get over the hump.
Will I give up my carbonated beverages? While I don’t see myself giving them up entirely, I have cut down from eight to ten a day (I know, that is an awful number) to one or two a day and my water intake has increased substantially. I am easily meeting or exceeding the 8-10 glass recommendation.
My skin looks better, my energy level is better, my sleep is better, and my overall performance is definitely at a new high – which I’m gonna need!
Water has made a difference and I’m won over.
Now, how about one of you being a winner? Last week’s $500 Visa Gift Card giveaway had over 540 entries. I used random.org to draw a number and the corresponding comment belongs to: Jackie Medows!
“I just LOVE Crystal Light go packs! They have LOT’S of flavors and I always have several flavors on hand for the little one’s who visit!”
I will email you, Jackie, with instructions on how to get me your mailing address.
Who wants a chance to win ANOTHER $500?
Tell me how your week of drinking more water has gone for a chance ot win another $500 Visa gift card in the comments below!
You can also join in Crystal Light’s Twitter Party this Wednesday, August 19th, from 8:00-10:00 pm EST for more great giveaways from Crystal Light! The twitter party is being hosted by @audreymcclellan of Mom Generations so follow her to participate! If you aren’t following me already, please do! @southernplate.
~It has been my pleasure bringing you this post, sponsored by Crystal Light.~
I loved reading your post because it is similar to what has happened to me since I “discovered” Crystal Light packs. As a lifelong diet drink addict, I hardly ever tried anything else to drink. I tried one one day because that was all that was available. Before I knew it, I was drinking more and more Crystal Light and eventually I stopped drinking soda completely. I wasn’t even trying to cut it out but before I knew it, I was completely into Crystal Light. I love it! The new White Peach Tea is my latest fave!
I had actually not been drinking much water lately….but when this little reminder about pleding to drink more crystal light was brought to my attention…I thought yeah I used to drink alot of that…so I had pledged to myself that I needed to buy some and get back on the kick….so thanks to your sponsorship…it kinda pushed me back on the straight and narrow….ha! So here I am back drinking my crystal light…thanks for the little boost!
Drinking more water has helped me in a few ways….
its gives me more energy to play with my kiddos
it helps me lose weight, because I’m not ingesting empty calories
it helps my skin not be so dry and itchy all the time
and it helps me not get any more kidney stones!
I live in Arizona, where its 124 sometimes in the summer… I totally appreciate the value of water. And a flavoring in it, like Crystal Light totally helps, because I don’t like the taste of tap water!
Drinking more water makes me feel so much more alert. I am a massage therapist and I add crystal light to my water to give it a little pizazz.
Drinking more water makes me feel better. My Husband and I started
drinking more water the first of July and walking everynight. Our son lost 30 lbs and what he gave up was pop and only drank water and ran a mile every night. You know after you have been with out pop for a week or so you don’t miss it. When you think your hungrey get a bottle of water, you might not be hungrey, you could be thristy.
I feel drinking most of my water intake during the day before I get to Sneek in a soda helps me most days not want one. There is a occasional day I crave a soda.. but hey.. if your living right most of the time we can have our little vices.
cant we??
I don’t drink carbonated beverages.
I love Crystal Light, but question the artificial sweetener.
I try not to eat anything with that ingredient in it because
have been reading about the not-so-good medical aspects of it.