Giving up Sodas

My advice is to take it slow, it's tough to cut it out all at once. For example, if you have 2 sodas a day, cut down to 1 soda a day for a week. Then the next week, have a soda every other day. Keep cutting it out little by little. Eventually, you'll be down to 1 soda a week, a special treat for the weekend perhaps...and after that, you'll be down to no sodas and it won't be so hard.

I used to be a big soda drinker myself, and it's worked for me. Aside from a few sips of gingerale when I was sick in November, and one other special occasion when I had a sip of someone else's soda late last year, I've essentially been soda-free for nearly a year now. It's just not even something I think about or crave anymore.

I have been practically soda free since 2/13/12. I used to drink it nonstop, even kept a bottle on my nightstand and drank it while I was sleeping.

I quit cold turkey and switched to water. It was hard, but it got easier in time. Keep in mind that you might have headaches from the lack of caffiene and sugar. I took No Doz for a couple weeks, to sort of give up the sugar, then the caffiene.

If you are drinking bottled water, try different varieties...I only like spring water...maybe I'm crazy. After 8 months of bottled water, I switched to a Britta pitcher to reduce waste and the cost of nearly 4 cases of water/week.

Water truly helped me appreciate the taste of fruits and veggies more. If I had a pop, I wanted another and I also craved heavier, unhealthy foods. It's like my mouth needed to be clean or dirty, it couldn't go back and forth.

Also, when I drank pop, I didn't really need to eat regulary. I would often only eat dinner. If you're like this, plan to eat at least breakfast and lunch to fuel your body.

Quitting my soda addiction is the best thing I've done for myself. The stuff is poison.

Good luck!

At the first of the year it was nothing for me to finish off a 2 liter bottle a day. Crazy I know. It took better than two weeks before I got through a day without any. The headaches in my case didn't respond well to OTC pain killers, but within 10 min of drinking my Dr Pepper, they were gone. Cannot stand diet, don't want even try to get 'used to it'. I always have ice water at my desk at work. Tracking your food well also helps, it blows when you realize what food you have to skip to pay for the pop calories.

Hard addiction to break. Takes about three days for me. Just drink water whenever you are having a craving. And I know from experience that once I am off soda I should not think about even having one once in a while.

Once my three days is over I am fine but if I have a full one it is like I have to break the cycle again. I am working on my caffene addiction. Love a cup of coffee or two in the morning. This is my second day without and I have the "headache." But, this too shall pass and I will be better off for it.

We can do this!

I drink seltzer water all the time. It's just carbonated water, so no sugar or salt or yucky aspartame or anything like that. If you must, add a couple drops of orange or vanilla stevia to make it taste like orange or cream soda x
Or add lemon, lime, cucumber, strawberry, whatever suits you! Believe me, it's so much better than regular soda. I can't even drink the stuff anymore and I used to be a total CocaCola junkie.
xo An

I am a recovering soda addict as well...I am able to drink a LOT more water by making it flavored. Not with that powder crap or anything but with fresh fruit. My favorite is watermelon. I cut it up and put the white part of the watermelon in a pitcher throw some of the red in there too for a little more flavor then fill it with water. Let it sit over night and you have a pitcher full of water for the next day. I will fill it up 2-3 times and still have the flavor. It's very good and refreshing. It's also good with cucumber. Try it, most likely you just need some flavor to keep you on track.

Congratulations !!!!
I too have given up Soda's totally water with lime it's so good and refreshing .

I stopped drinking soda by simply refusing to buy it. I used to HATE water, but I have come to love it gradually. My number one tip for replacing soda with water (or anything else) is to drink through a straw. Drinking ice water through a straw makes it a lot more bearable and you will find yourself drinking plenty of it. After I started drinking enough water through a straw, I stopped craving soda.

I was doing 44 ouncers like I should have been drinking water. I found a few things helped me. First, instead of cutting down I started mixing 3/4 regular soda with 1/4 the diet. Then 1/2 and 1/2, then 3/4 diet and 1/4 regular. Well, sounds great but anything below 1/2 and 1/2 started to taste crappy, so I started adding more ice to my 44 ounce, which was really now only about 30 ounces or less. Then stepped down to a 32 ounce, added more ice, then 24 ounce, etc.

Just ween off it.

I can honestly say, I don't miss it. Made a big difference in my weight loss.

I drink water all day. Whenever I crave a soda I will put a splash of Mio in my water. It really helps.

I'm 20 days Pepsi Free! I quit cold turkey and it's not the first time i have quit. I've tried off and on a few times in the last year to quit but the time I was really successful was when I was pregnant with my son and I went two years without drinking it. Anyway, I was drinking way too much and I am not going to work my butt off just to consume my calories back in pop! So bye-bye pop! I feel sooooooooo much better without you and drinking you just isn't worth it!