I'm drinking my calories!!!

What about mixing 1/2 diet Dr.Pepper with Regular - and then cutting back on the regular, adding more diet, a bit at a time?

I drink at least 4 to 5 can Dr. Peppers a day. I can't stand the Diet. I dont know what to do. When I try to quit drinking them I just crave them more. UGH!!!
Anyone else have/had this problem? If so what did you do?

Phase out of it - it has caffeine in it, which is probably where part of your addiction is coming from. Refined sugars too. They keep you coming back. So phase out over a few days. Drink a LOT of water too.
Stop buying it/Get rid of it - You have to get all of your trigger foods AWAY from you. Whether that means getting it out of the house, throwing it out, giving it to friends. Get rid of it.
Find a suitable replacement, it may take a while but it will work.

You are on the right path already - you KNOW what you're drinking isn't the best choice and thats the first step.
Keep water handy and if youre getting it from a vending machine at school or work, make sure you leave all your change in the car. (Thats what I had to do at work... those dollars burnt holes in my pocket until they were spent on snacks.)

Hang in there!

Coke zero taste just like reg coke. I love it

I used to be that way with Mt. Dew. I just couldn't make myself drink the diet Mt. Dew. I decided to go a week without ANY Mt. Dew -and then I drank a diet. By then...the diet tasted VERY sweet. If you still want to drink pop, try going without any for a few days, then try the diet and see if you like it any better.

Try iced tea for caffeine and switch to 100% fruit juice for the sugar, I'm trying to quit dr.pepper too and I had one really good week using iced tea and fruit juice. You are going to get some major head aches but its worth it. Now I can go a few days with no dr. pepper but its still really hard to say no, but just start cutting back, take one day at a time:happy:

What about mixing 1/2 diet Dr.Pepper with Regular - and then cutting back on the regular, adding more diet, a bit at a time?

This is genius. Great idea! I don't drink regular soda but if I did, this sounds like a great trick.


p.s I had to edit this because I spelled 'genius' wrong....duhhhh...:blushing:

I drink at least 4 to 5 can Dr. Peppers a day. I can't stand the Diet. I dont know what to do. When I try to quit drinking them I just crave them more. UGH!!!
Anyone else have/had this problem? If so what did you do?

Yes, I would attribute Mt Dew to being one of the biggest reason I got as big as I did. I was drinking a 44oz of Mt Dew daily. That's 4550 calories a week I was consuming just on a drinks. I ran the numbers on Dr Pepper and it's similar.

However, there is good news. That's 4550 calories you can eliminate from your diet without changing ANYTHING else. That's roughly a 1.3 lbs a week right there.

You can do whatever you want, but before you focus on changing anything else about your diet: Try eliminate or drasticly reduce your consumption of Dr Pepper.

Here is what I did: Whenever I got the craving for a Mt Dew I had a Diet Coke. Find something as a substitute, tea, V8, etc something with low or now calories. The other thing I did, and I still do this, is I have 1 Mt Dew a week. This way I don't feel deprived.

That has been effective for the past year. I still just have one Mt Dew a week. Now I'm trying to eliminate pop/soda all together, because I beleive it will improve my running. So I've started drinking V8's when I get the craving for some soda. Good Luck.

WOW! 4-5 a day!!!! That's a TON of calories. I can't even begin to imagine how much weight you would lose if you cut those out of your diet. Maybe that could be a focus for you??

Drinking my calories is a huge no no for me. It's so much more worth it to me to have those calories saved for food.

I'm a complete Dr. Pepper addict. My last sip of regular Dr. Pepper was June 26, 2006. I ate at McDonald's that day and had a Big Mac, large fries, and large Dr. Pepper on my way home from the "weight loss doctor." He suggested that I start keeping a food diary (his only good advice), so I looked up the calories in my meal and almost died of shock. That one meal had enough calories for the whole day! I decided right then that I had to make some serious changes. I knew I couldn't change everything at once, so I chose Dr. Pepper to begin with. I immediately stopped drinking it, and I haven't had one since. I haven't had any sugared soda, with the exception of a Sprite on two occasions when I had an upset stomach. I started by cutting out all soft drinks, and I drank unsweetened tea instead. That helped with the caffeine headaches. After a couple of weeks of that, I decided to try a diet soda, and it tasted VERY sweet to me at that point. Now, I drink one diet soda per day, usually Diet Dr. Pepper or Coke Zero, and sometimes I don't have one at all. Quitting Dr. Pepper was one of the most difficult things I've ever done. I quit smoking much easier than I walked away from DP. But I did it, and you can, too. You just have to find what works for you. Tea and two weeks of no soda at all worked for me. Mixing the regular and diet might do it for you. Best of luck in whatever you decide to try.

I gave up diet coke about 2 years ago the hardest dang thing I ever did... I buy the crystal light wild strawberry and wal mart grape flavoring I have the 32 oz bottles that I only use one pack in and mix and throw in the fridge... I manage to get my water in that way ... now I did find plain water I like however it is figi and I can only swing buying those once in a blue moon ... I wish you luck in getting the dr pepper phased out ... it is hard but you can do it ...

I was drinking quite a bit of soda myself. My last one was the 17th. I love love Dr. Pepper too. My husband works at Pepsi. I just really push myself to not drink them. i drink lipton hint of peach tea it is awesome. I also drink a cup of coffee every once in awhile to help with caffeine. I wasn't as hard as i thought it would be though.


Good Luck!!!