Cutting out soda

Yep! I drank 6 Dr peppers at least a day, and used to joke that water was what was in my toilet, i started with replacing after coffee with water and gradually cut down till i now crave water, if you had told me back then i would ever craved water I would of laughed in your face,,baby steps work best for me at least!

At one time I drank a pot of coffee everyday and drank one can of Diet Pepsi everyday. Due to health reasons and per my Doctor it was in my best interest to quit drinking both, soooooooo I went cold turkey and I haven't looked back since :happy:

If you feel too overwhelmed by it all, just take baby steps. Good Luck

I used to drink soda like crazy, but I like Diet Coke. It's not the sugar that's the issue there, but the sweeteners and their effect on making you hungrier and screwing up your body chemistry. I cut out sodas with no problem.

My issue was with the coffee, creamer and sugar. I try to use Splenda or Truvia, but even that, I'm trying to phase out. I've been able to cut my creamer down significantly over time.

The main thing to keep in mind is that you don't want to deprive yourself. You have to make adjustments over time to where you get accustomed to the new flavors. Now, my morning coffee is much darker than it used to be and only half as sweet. I'm working towards getting the sweetener out all together.

It takes time. Take baby steps until you've changed your lifestyle. You're not alone.

I started using the Wal*Mart version of mio to encourage myself to drink more water. I know it's not "pure" water but it is a lot better for me than the cans upon cans of diet Coke I was consuming.

Soda is so bad for you, it's scary. Especially the diet kinds. I'm not one to be talking either because I will enjoy a soda here and there, and lately it's been more often. It doesn't help either that my Dad works for coke and will bring some home and I will take some over my house.

Doing it cold turkey is best to get it out of your system, just like any other ways to get stuff out, but it's difficult if you'drank like that your entire life. I would suggest, gradually switching one drinking for water every day or every week until you don't want the soda anymore or the coffee. I'm not saying cut them out completely, but one cup of coffee a day is not going to hurt. And really one cup is good for your brain and mental thinking. Just gradually put less sugar in one day or less creamer in one day until you think you can drink maybe with just 1-2 teaspoons of sugar or until 1-2 teaspoons of creamer is okay. I'm not a coffee drinker, but when I do drink coffee I need the craem and sugar too, so I know that's hard.

But water is the best thing to drink, and I kow it's hard. It's even hard for me and I only really like to drink water. Ways I've found to make it easy is adding lemons or limes or any fruit really. I prefer lemon.


Good luck to you and add me if you need any more advice. When I was about 15 years olf, all I drank was water and I lost so much weight, but then that caffiene kicked back in and all the weighted came back plus more. I want to step on the scale and see my weight when I was 15 again.

I have a friend I am helping at work who is very overweight. His first thing to tackle was soda. Cutting out his several 44oz Pepsi's each day and adding a couple miles of paced walking, he is down almost 30 pounds in about a month and a half.

To ween him off we started adding more ice in the 44oz cups, then went to a 32oz, then 24oz, and then he started mixing half diet and half regular until he finally quit completely. We supplimented water and sometimes added a crytal light pack or such.

I tapered off. Quitting soda was as hard as quitting cigarretes for me. I cut down to two a day, then one in the morning for a few weeks, and then switched to diet soda (which I hated before). I currently drink 2 or 3 diet sodas a day plus water. Diet sodas are fine for you. Some extremists will tell you its the devil. There are no definitive studies in humans that successfully conclude otherwise.
I have personally seen no difference in weight loss when comparing diet soda to water over months of monitoring.

Soda is so bad for you, it's scary. Especially the diet kinds.

Why??? And why ESPECIALLY the diet kinds? This is misinfornation. Diet soda can be a great tool to help quit regular soda. I am not a rat, so I discount studies done on them, as well as discounting any inconclusive "fat people drink diet soda, so diet soda makes you fat" or "brain tumors have increased since the invention of aspartme" type studies.
If you have any CONCLUSIVE scientific studies done on humans to back up your statement, I would love to read them.

By the way, there is nothing wrong with eating at Wendys if you are meeting your calorie and macronutrient goals.

I moved from coffee to herbal teas 2 cups in the am and still drink one diet coke with splenda a day , sometimes. The coffee was easy as long as I replaced it with something hot in the am. I drank 4-5 cups before 10 am. I mainly drink water through out the day.

Cold turkey. Have not had a single soda in over 6 months. I would probably feel much better if did the same w/ the beer.:drinker:

Like the other post, I switched to San Pellegrino and I also pick up the flavored store brand 0 calorie flavored water once in a while. I was drinking WAY to much Diet Coke and I don't really know what is in there but is in not good for me at all.

I will be drinking more celestial iced teas in the summer.

I survive on caffeine. I drink two cups of sugar laden, lots of creamer coffee every morning and then keep myself fueled with regular coke throughout the day. I tried going cold turkey and couldn't handle it.
A friend suggested I step down and slowly replace the soda with water over the course of a few weeks. It might not help with weight loss but I need to do a complete diet over haul and I think if I do too much at once it will all blow up in my face and you will find me at Wendy's with a bacon cheese burger, fries and their "healthy" Chicken BLT Cobb salad.
Anyone else do a step down method for cutting out soda?

Life without coffee or soda would be just too depressing for me. I went the 'MODERATION' route. One or 2 cups of coffee a day (dash of cream and 1/2 teaspoon of sugar - total cals for both cups under 160) and one can of diet soda a day.

I think I might have found something to help cut out the coffee. Anyone try Brig Train Chai Tea or the Big Train Fit Frappe Chai flavor. A lot of times protein doesn't mix well in hot water so I mix one scoop of the fit frappe in room temp water then heat it up and drink in place of Coffee (especiallyStarbucks or extremely sweetened coffee). The Fit Frappe has more protein (20 per serving), and it's thicker, the Tea still has 2 gr of protein per serving.

Let me know if anyone else has tried this and what they think. Big Train also has expresso flavor.

I've been soda free for 2 years now. I did do the gradual process on cutting it out

i used to drink one of the those arizona rx energy cans (i think 24 oz) every day, they were citrus with caffeine and like crack. and usually i would have coffee too and a french vanilla cappucino.
not the cause, but i found out a i have a bladder disorder where anything with caffeine or is acidic or has even artificial sweetener tears my bladder up and causes mad pain.
i still have it every now and then (it doesnt bother me if i have it once or twice a month) but that def helped me kick it out lol. not at once tho, i had to cut down at a time. good luck!