How did you kick the soda habit/cravings?

lizzybethclaire

I used to be like this with Coke. The soda that is...hehehehe. Gosh, what an awful joke. Seriously, some people either do well cold turkey or some do better giving up a little at a time. How big is the mountain dew you drink each day. A can? a 20 oz bottle? a liter? Try drinking a can each day around lunch time. Budget for it in your daily calories. Do that for one week, than have a can every other day the next week, and just keep lessening it until it is done. Honestly, I gave up soda because I realized that water has no calories and I get to eat more food.

amilynnM

I have a total lack of willpower when it comes to soda and junk food, so I have found the easiest thing is to never keep it in the house. When I used to keep cases of diet Coke or diet Dr. Pepper in my fridge, I would go through multiple cans a day! Now I crave soda a lot but I just order diet Coke when I'm out at restaurants (which isn't very often lately since I am cooking more and have less money) or if I really really need to treat myself, I have to go out and walk to the store. Making it more difficult to get to tends to be a deterrent. And now I think I'll go to the store and get myself some Diet Dr. Pepper...you've made me crave it!

But seriously, don't keep it in your house, or keep a lot less of it around and gradually reduce how much you buy until it's (almost) nothing.

krb731

At some point you will say enough is enough. You will determine that Mt. Dew is not going to have that much control over you. You will then take the steps to get the junk out of your system, replace it with something healthy, and have the strength to fight through the cravings. A few months later you will look a bottle of Mt. Dew and smile knowing that you are in control.


Okay so that's how it happened with me and Cherry Dr. Pepper. The unopened bottle still sitting by my desk.

Dbow0207

Honestly, i just stopped clod turkey. I can't ween myself off of stuff because I'll never stop it. So I just stopped drinking soda. Period.

NeuroticVirgo

I replaced soda with diet green tea, iced tea (no sugar added), & crystal light (in the beginning I also bought a lot of canned versions of these, no calories, but still easy to grab and go like soda was)....then gradually changed those to just water. Now I drink mostly just plain water...I used to drink like 128oz of soda a day (Big Gulps etc were not helping my case).

For the first week or so, I couldn't leave the house without Excedrin (which has caffeine in it)...to help the headaches. But its much easier to wing off the pills than the soda. Because you only take them when you get the headaches, after a while you won't get them at all anymore...and therefore will stop taking the Excedrin.

That's how I did it.

JohnnyNull

I'm a cold-turkey kinda guy. And yes, I had terrible withdrawals. Horrible headaches, shivers, the whole nine.

Cordy1228

I love regular sodas, but I switched to vanilla flavored seltzer water at home. It's not an exact match or replacement, but it's close enough to satisfy me.

However, I am a coffee drinker, so the caffeine wasn't so much an issue. I still got my caffeine, just in a different form.

lisabel87

coke zero! but i try to only drink them twice a month