Caffeine Anyone?
Ok, I’m a dumb-ass. So I went grocery shopping tonight and as I was perusing the cold water drinks (think Vitamin Water), I came across Viso. It looked intriguing so I checked out some of the labels.
These drinks are loaded with vitamins and minerals. I mean absolutely loaded. Sounds good so far…ouch, but they have lots of sugar. But wait, there is Viso Will - the diet version. It is a cranberry - grapefruit flavor. OK, I can get into that.
So I throw it into the cart and finish up my shopping. After unpacking the groceries at home, I popped it open and had a taste. Not bad. A little overkill with the artificial sweetener but nothing horrible. I finish it up in about 30 minutes.
Here is where things go south. I picked up the bottle and decided to peruse the label. I see things like
12 Vitamins @ 100%RDA
2 Minerals @ 100% RDA
I like that. Then I see
VISO Will is a serious energy drink
Hmmm, I kind skipped over the energy part. What’s this red warning label at the bottom…
Caution! Viso Will contains the caffeine equivalent of three cups of coffee.
WHAT! Oh Crap! It’s 10pm at night and I normally only have 1 cup of coffee each morning. This thing has 300mg of caffeine. I’M NEVER GOING TO FALL ASLEEP! How do I know? It’s 11:40pm at night (I’m usually asleep before 11pm) and I’m WIRED out of my mind!
Even worse, I plan to get up at 5am in order to go to work early. I might as well just stay up all night. Or maybe I need to go by another one of these drinks for the morning. Anywho, I plan on hanging out for a while online, maybe watch a movie, wash the car, or bake cookies.
Imagine if Zach ever got a hold of this. I don’t even want to imagine the horror he would put us through…it would last for days and days. We’d have to give him an antidote. Ok, I’m just rambling now.
toodaloo!
Update: It’s 9:40am…so I finally went to bed at 1am but didn’t fall asleep until 2:30am to 3:00am. I woke up every 15 to 30 minutes and finally got up at 5:30am. I’m a bloody wreck. And, yes, I had to have coffee. Anyway, did you know that NoDoz only has 2oomg caffeine per pill…so I basically took 1.5 NoDoz tablets. Next time I need to read the ingredients.