Giving up diet soda

id suggest cutting down one can a day xx

Hey - I was the same. Drank diet coke for over 25 years - every day!!
I quit cold turkey on January 15th this year and haven't had even a sip of it since then. I have completely replaced it with WATER!
I don't even miss it at all anymore - and feel so much better. Greatest change I have made to my diet in a long time!

Take it one day at a time! I drank TONS of soda for years and years too. I gave it up cold turkey Oct. 25, so it's been almost 6 months. It definitely gets easier. I got a Soda Stream and now drink tons of carbonated water. It can be done! I don't really miss it much any more.

This is going to be really hard to do but I'm going to give up Diet Coke. I'm really addicted & have been for about 25 years. Not sure even how to begin.

I gave it up as well since i was going through a 12 pack of diet every other day. I think I loved the bubbles in it so I started drinking the carbonated flavored waters and then just quick drinking those and don't really miss it at all. Sometimes I do but it is that was with most people at their lil addictions! Good luck!

I gave it up as well since i was going through a 12 pack of diet every other day. I think I loved the bubbles in it so I started drinking the carbonated flavored waters and then just quick drinking those and don't really miss it at all. Sometimes I do but it is that was with most people at their lil addictions! Good luck!

Worked for me too. I often put 1/4 cup or so of the flavored sparkling water in with a tall glass of plain water.

I used to have diet pop everyday, sometimes two. One day I just decided that I could spend that money elsewhere and stopped drinking it regularly about 5 years ago. I too quit cold turkey but I was also very fortunate that I like to drink water. Now, I have maybe one a week and some days I grab a can, drink part of it and then don't really want to finish it. I found for me all I wanted was something really cold to drink. I bought jug with a filter so that I could keep constant water in the fridge. When I moved into my current place I spent the extra money and got the fridge that has the water and ice in the door. Huge difference for me.

I hope you find what works for you but perhaps you can set yourself a schedule on a calendar. If you typically drink one every day, cut out Monday and Thursday. After a bit, switch to one every second day. Then switch to two days a week you allow one. It will get to the point where you won't even want the one that is scheduled.

You got this! :flowerforyou:

cold turkey. Just drink more filtered water, tea and or watered down fruit juice and for the sugar hit just eat fruit in general they will curb the appetite for sugar and caffeine which is all most soda's are.

I went cold turkey off of Soda, Coffee, Fruit Juices (not hand squeezed) aswell as junk food in general
It is hard the first few days then it gets alot easier, just think what you will be saving yourself in the long run money wise not to mention the damage it was doing to your teeth and vital organs can be lessened considerably if not repaired.

I too love diet sodas, and I managed to go about a month. Then I had a relapse and drank one yesterday and one today. It's not easy

must affect people differently as I find that a Diet Dr.Pepper will kill a sweet craving for me. I do understand not wanting to be addicted to anything so good luck to you.

I gave up soda when I had my weight loss surgery. I thought it would be hard because I did drink a lot of diet coke every day, but I just stopped & haven't actually missed it. I don't really like plain water, so I drink a bunch of tea & crystal light now instead.

I love my Diet Pepsi. In January 2012 I gave up caffeine (well the kind in soda at least, and I'm not a coffee drinker.) I was finding I was having trouble sleeping and felt jittery sometimes. I must say no caffeine has helped with the jitters, I don't get those anymore. The sleeping, well that's another issue,

But, I replaced the Diet Pepsi with caffeine to Diet Pepsi caffeine free and I am totally addicted. I will drink the equivalent to a few cans a day because I just really really like cola. I like water too, but I find it too boring sometimes (even when I use the flavored mix ins.)

Recently, I read an article that said that diet pop could actually be halting your progress to lose weight and that diet pop and some other "flavored drinks" have an ingredient called potassium benzoate I think it's called that is used as a preservative and it can be very very bad for you(not to mention the aspartame that is also not the greatest for you either). That is has the potential to turn into a carcinogen in your body.

Needless to say I have really been pondering whether or not to give up my diet pop addiction. I have some cans in the house right now (I have finished off the 2 liters I had). And I told myself I was not buying anymore. So once the cans are gone, they are gone and I will have to adjust to being a water girl. I know I will miss my pop now and then but I am going to try to go as pop free as I possibly can.

As others have said and it's great advice, just take it one day at a time. I find that philosophy works well in most areas of life. Sometimes it's just way too hard to quit cold turkey so gradually cut back until you find you may not even crave it anymore. With others cold turkey is the only way to go. Whatever works best for you. And good luck.. We are all in this together.

I don't understand this "addiction". Is it the caffeine, or something? Is it diet meth soda?

I'm not trying to be a jerk - I just don't understand how something as innocuous as diet pop can be an actual addiction.

anything can be an addiction. you could be addicted to chewing your nails or eating dryer lint not jsut common stuff like food and drugs, People's minds are weird and everyone is affected differently.

but the main addictions are caffeine, sugar and fats all three put your body into hyper mode which gives your more energy but your mind then craves more to keep that energy level going, thats the basics of it

ever wondered why there is caffeine and sugar added to just about everything that is processed? . because it's addictive to most people, no different then getting hooked on nicotine or mairjuana etc. they know it's bad for you but the body craves it once you get hooked

I also am in the process of eliminating soda (coke zero in my case). About 2 years ago i finally switched from regular coke to coke zero, something i thought would never be possible for me. Now it's time to get rid of the coke zero. One day at a time..... I feel ya.