Help! Need some good tips for kicking the soda habit

When I crave a soda, I will replace it with flavored, carbonated water. I get the same satisfaction as I would drinking a soda, but with no calories. There are one liter bottles at Dollar General for 70 cents. You might give that a try.

Just quit. It's called willpower, either you want to or you don't, there's no trick.

^This. I wanted to stop drinking so much soda, so one day I just quit and I haven't missed it at all! I've gone 2 years without drinking it (except for a handful of times where it was all I could get) and now it kills my stomach to drink it! Whenever I drink it, I feel ill and my stomach is very bubbly and upset. It may be hard to cut cold turkey but it worked for me.

I used to have a serious soda addiction. Like 3-4+ cans a day. Then one day a year or two again, I decided that it was really bad for me and I quit drinking it all together. I didn't put much thought into it, I just stopped. Then only thing I did to ease into it was before I quit for good, I would make myself drink a glass of water before I could have any soda. I still drank the soda though, but not as much in the long run.

When you quit soda, you will no longer crave it. At least I didn't. If I drink it now, it makes me burpy and makes my teeth feel like they were coated like sugar. My advice is to just stop drinking it.. and don't think too much about it.

With all this talk about it, pepsi sounds good right now! haha
The easiest for me was just not buying it. If it's there, we will drink it. I like it every once in a while, but water is good too!

I agree with some that have already said. Just stop drinking it. I was addicted to soda for a loooong time so I know it is hard, but decided it was too much of a pain in the @ss to lose weight while drinking it. Plus, it ain't exactly the healthiest anyway. Diet soda is worse then regular, so I don't recommend that as a way to get away from it. The best way to do it is to just stop buying it and force yourself to drink water. I don't even really crave it anymore and when I do have some of it (Very rarely), it's like, WOAH! That is a LOT of sugar, lol. Hope you can find the will power to quit the soda (:

I haven't had any soda (except one diet Pepsi, we'll get to that later) since I started my most recent weight-loss journey two months ago. I used to drink regular Coca-Cola almost every day before. Now, I always make sure that I have several bottles of S. Pellegrino sparkling mineral water on hand, and lots of citrus (lemon and limes) and I just don't buy soda under any circumstances. It isn't worth it. When I think of how much exercise I need to do just to burn off a coke, I never choose to drink it. My go-to drink when I get home from work is S. Pellegrino and some freshly sliced/squeezed lemon or lime. The sparkling component covers at least the sensory experience of drinking a carbonated beverage, which is half the battle. I was craving Cola last week and my assistant was running out to grab lunch so I told her to pick me up something diet. After two months of caramel-colored deprivation, the diet Pepsi from Taco Bell that she brought me just tasted gross. Now, I have a negative image of soda in my mind, and it's working for me

I drank 3-4 cans of Coke or Pepsi a day. When I ate at fast food restaurants, I would always order a huge Coke or Pepsi and had no problems finishing it. I always had a Coke for breakfast. I thought I would be unable to stop drinking sodas but when I started logging my food intake, I noticed how many calories worth of soft drinks I was swilling. It took me about three weeks to stop drinking Cokes. I started cutting back little by little. Now I will drink a Coke a week if I eat at a restaurant. I have a hard time drinking fountain Cokes because they are too sweet. I don't like the taste of diet drinks at all. What I drink now is LaCroix carbonated drinks. These taste okay.

because soda directly causes obesity :noway: .... just fit it into your diet if you want it.....

I WAS a diet coke addict. it literally took me cold-turkeying out, and buying no more soda's.
Instead, I bought water, by the cases. When I ate, I HAD to drink SOMETHING, water was all I had.
Occasionally, when I go out, I get a diet coke, but that is few and far between.

Good luck!

PS: My weight loss SPED up after quitting sodas. Even though there's no calories, the sugaring system, does delay things...

Years back I switched from regular to diet. For the last couple of years I only buy seltzer water (No artificial fake sweeteners, etc in it) You can find it lots of flavors, Safeway carries a few kinds and there's Talking Rain, etc. We're so used to it we don't miss soda at all. It may take some getting used to taste-wise but you'll love the ZERO calories. You can squeeze fresh lime for added flavor as well!