I had a can of full sugar coke before filming this video, so you’ll have to excuse the tendency towards frivolity. I’ve managed to get my Coca Cola consumption down to just one can a week, now, and I try to “take it” (like medicinal waters) on a work day when I need a bit of extra energy to plough through the to-do list.
I used have my can on a Friday evening with my fish and chips, but I was finding it hard to sleep afterwards – writhing around with anxiety until the early hours – and I realised that it must have been the consumption of caffeine at a relatively late hour. Duh. Call me Inspector Morse.
Imagine if I was a coffee drinker" It doesn’t even bear thinking about. Even the caffeine in one can of coke  -approx 34mg – turns me into a gurning, twitching idiot; a quick Google tells me that the average coffee has around 95mg of caffeine! I’d be unstoppable on that. I’d probably grind my teeth down to little stumps and wear holes in the carpet from pacing back and forth. And that would be when I could get off the toilet… Anyway, enough of my ridiculously low caffeine/sugar tolerance level and on with the show. What’s In My Makeup Bag, The Winter Edition. Except that it’s not the winter edition really, because we’ve just entered March (ooh err!) and I’m pretty sure that March counts as spring. But either way, it makes no difference, because it’s not as though I tweak my ...