I love Coke

coke is a helluva drug

I used to be a coke addict. At least 4-5 a day. I had to stop cold turkey. After about a year or so without it, I was out for pizza and I thought.. why not? It tasted so disgustingly sweet I almost spit it out. Never have looked back.

I was a regular coke, full leaded coke drinker for years and years. In my 20's and 30's I even drank it for breakfast, I didn't start drinking my morning coffee until my 40's. I could go through a 2 litre a day. Coke and donuts would be my breakfast and sometimes lunch and dinner. I quit cold turkey in early Feb of this year. So far I haven't even craved it, which is a shock. I thought I would be dreaming about it. I gave up all of my crappy eating along with the coke. I don't miss any of it. I feel so much better without it. I do have a glass of flavored sparkling water with lunch every day. I drink iced tea in restaurants. Water the rest of the time. Sometimes I will put frozen berries in my water to give it some flavor. Cold turkey was the only way for me. I didn't want it in the house at all. My husband has never been a soda drinker. He only drinks water, so it has been pretty easy for me.

Used to drink a ton of coke. Up to 6+ cans a day sometimes. It was a slow, gradual cut down, and now I'm down to at most a couple a week - I'm finding it sweeter and sweeter, and just not worth the calories most days.

I used to be basically addicted to an energy drink called Boost, like Red Bull but you only get it in Ireland and the UK as far as I know. The stuff was really sugary too and was wrecking my teeth. Just stopped cold turkey basically.

Though for something like Coke Zero, my opinion would be keep drinking it, its better to drink that than something sugary (in terms of weight loss anyway. I've been drinking Diet Coke and Pepsi Max since I started to try and lose weight and I've still lost weight, so it definitley doesn't prevent it)

Ugh. Coke is nasty. Did you know that before they put the caramel coloring in it, it's green? Ack.

Ah Coke. It's my last food vice, and I don't know when I'll be ready to give it up. In the past, I've cut it out, played "perfect diet" for a bit, then crashed hard. I don't want to do that this time, so I drink anywhere between 0 and 1 per day and my typical day ends up more 80/20. I only drink Mexican Coke now (no HFCS), super-chilled in a glass bottle, way too expensive to drink a lot of, and try to only drink it if I am going to really enjoy it. I don't feel this is an ideal situation, and I would like to get to the point where I could enjoy it once a week or once in a blue moon, but I am not to that place yet and I am still making progress on weight and other healthier eating habits, so it's just an uneasy truce right now.

Right there with you, used to drink a few a day. I finally figured out that I don't actually like the flavor. Drink a flat Coke, it's nasty. I actually like the fizz. So I switched to flavored seltzer and every now and then a diet soda (maybe 3 a week).

Also, squeezing a lemon or lime into a seltzer makes you feel like there is a little sugar in it for very few calories.

I also drank soda at breakfast, because, hey, I don't drink coffee, right? I haven't missed the caffeine unless I am very tired.

I try to visualize the calories in a soda as food. As in, a bottle of soda has as many calories as my favorite restaurant meal (a spicy tofu bowl with broccoli) or a slice of pizza. Which would I rather have?! I try to think about how much sugar is in that bottle...almost half the volume! I can't imagine myself ever making something in my kitchen that was half sugar, not even the chocolate mousse I make on holidays.

I traded 5-6 cans a day of diet coke for 1 can of regular coke and so far it's working well. Sometimes on the weekends I'll have a 20oz of diet coke but I haven't even done that in about 6 weeks.

Coke is it!

Seriously I love me a Coca-Cola, but I quit except for when I need one for nausea or a migraine. I treat it like medicine now lol.