Pop

There was no trick. I just stopped. I replaced it with water (flavored water mostly). Stop buying pop. Set yourself up so grabbing water is easy. And don't allow yourself anything else to drink until you get you 8 glasses of water in.

I don't buy it so there is none of it in my house. I always walk around with a water bottle and drink water or Crystal Light. It took a while to get into a routine of ordering water at restaurants, and not diet coke but I haven't had any pop in almost three months.

Getting off a daily soda (or two) took several years for me, mostly because I didn't start out with the goal of not drinking soda. I first made the switch from regular to diet because the regular was making my teeth hurt more often, and I thought it would help with losing weight.

My teeth did hurt less, but I didn't really lose weight because I didn't make any other changes to my eating.

When I finally decided to stop drinking diet soda multiple times per day it was as part of an overall nutrition change for me. The two most important things I did was to stop bringing diet soda to work, so it's not available for 10 hours a day, and making sure other options were available: ice tea and cold water in the fridge all of the time.

I now go weeks at a time without having a soda. I occasionally have a diet or a regular soda as an indulgence.

Just quit. I quit 3 weeks ago today. I've had one small fountain coke since then, and it tasted horrible after drinking mostly water since.

Once I made the decision to quit, I just kept drinking water to flush my system and pushed through the headaches.

I don't understand pop addiction, but if it were me, I'd just make the decision to drink something else and then I would drink something else.

I just stopped drinking it.

Lots of water and Chia seeds to balance out my mood and provide energy! I quit and extreme Mtn. Dew addiction in June and have moved on to quitting cigarettes now (yay!) am almost to the 30 day mark without cigs! Thank you Chia seeds!!!


Disclaimer: All results were mine and might not necessarily apply to you!

No withdrawal for me...and I used to drink a six pack a day, more on weekends.
I just stopped, now I just drink filtered water or Crystal Lite Peach Tea

water, diet iced tea and poweraide zero is what works for me.

Just gotta make a change! Make the decision, think about why you're doing it, commit, and when you get tempted remember why your reasons to quit. After awhile the cravings will go away and you will feel SO much better

Honestly, I just cut it cold turkey. What I did was started chugging a glass of water every hour so I'm not thirsty - that cut the urge to drink because I was thirsty. I cut milk/juice the same way - I was worried I'd miss it but once I stopped drinking pop it was just...not a big deal.

Iced tea - lots of flavored ones you can brew yourself.

They call it pop in Michigan, too, lol. When I realized I was so fat that I was uncomfortable, I just stopped one day, and gave up on the beer too. Just cutting that garbage out made such a huge drastic difference, that i had no desire to touch them again. I don't miss them one bit. I drink mineral water, regular water, and mineral water with lime. I was drinking about a 12 pack of beer a week, and probably 6-12 sodas. I easily dropped 10 pounds in a month when I cut that stuff out.

i have tried to stop drinking pop cold turkey and i was always sick...had headaches and everything. So this time I started drinking one less per day. I only drink maybe one pop a day now and it is diet. Where i used to drink around 8 bottles a day.

I am going to try to quit completly, i know anytime i drink one it hinders my workout...i cant breathe right.

This post is for the people who don't drink pop anymore what tricks are you doing to not drinking pop anymore? I want to really stop drinking pop.

Go cold turkey.
It's what I did. If it helps just finish off the rest of the pop you have and then do NOT buy any more. I just decided the day I began my dieting I would scrap it once and for all, there are still quite a few cans in the fridge that have been sitting there for 3 months actually. Just force yourself to drink water and you'll learn to love it. I will say have some tylenol and advil ready however, you WILL get some mean caffeine withdrawal headaches. You'll feel tired, cranky, etc for about a week until your body goes back to normal. Just keep yourself hydrated with water and soon enough you'll start craving water instead of pop.