Giving up diet soda

What I did first was went to walmart and bought the carbonated flavored water. It's still diet soda when you think about it but it's a mental game... it's clear so it looks like water, it's still diet so no calories and it's carbonated. It's helping you break your addiction just one step at a time. So drink that for about a week. After about a week start to add in a few cups of plain water in between drinking that stuff. Also you can buy carbonated water and add fruit juice or something to it, that helped me a lot also. There's also Ozarka with lemon, lime or orange essence which is really good. Any of these things will help you to transition over to plain water. If you just try to go cold turkey then it could be harder to do. I used to drink a 12 pack of diet cokes every single day and now I don't drink any at all... ever. You can do this but it's all about breaking the addiction a little at a time instead of doing it all at once.

just keep in mind it has caffeine and you may experience withdrawals like some here have mentioned. I personally had to give up caffeine slowly over a years time, but i was a migraine sufferer who could get a migraine from the withdrawal headaches. Research for yourself what seems like the best method for you. I am encouraged for you by the people here who have said it felt bad for 3 days and then they were fine. I hope that's the case for you because the sooner the better from the artificial stuff. Which I had to limit too for the same reason. Just give yourself space to explore the options and try what seems best to you. You can do it!:flowerforyou:

I have been addicted to it for years and went cold turkey exactly one week ago. I have only been drinking water and tea and honestly, so far it's been kind of easy. I really do feel better. My stomach is flatter too!

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.

Be prepared to not feel so great. You will have headaches and possibly other uncomfortable feelings from changing this behavior. I personally suggest going cold turkey and not looking back. Diet soda is garbage for your body, maybe not calories but, its nothing natural or healthy. Drink plenty of water and just stick to your plan to stop drinking the soda. When you feel like you just have to have it, talk yourself out of it and drink ice cold water. I stopped drinking soda about 2 years ago..and I am really glad I did it. I hope you are successful in your new venture for better health.

I'm giving it up because I think it makes me hungry & I don't like that I'm addicted to something.

Those are great reasons. I hope you've taken the first step of getting rid of any stockpile in your house.

I went through a pretty long period of only drinking diet sodas. I found that kicking the habit was easier when I switched to MiO liquid flavor enhancers in water. They do contain sucralose, but they were my stepping stones to pure water. They gave me that sweet taste I usually got from my sodas. I kept using less and less of the MiO in each drink until I eventually stopped using it altogether.

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!

Me too, quit cold turkey sometime in early March. Just started drinking water instead.

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

Marijuana is addictive...ffs :sick:

You might want to give it up gradually if you have been drinking soda with caffeine. Otherwise, you could get caffeine withdrawal headaches.

Also, because people think diet and calorie-free drinks are healthy, they tend to drink way more of them. This means people are getting way more artificial sugars due to drinking "healthy" drinks than if they just drank the regular, sugar-filled drinks.

I am in the middle of quitting diet coke. I didn't like that my body was addicted to something (or the price of it) and when I first stopped drinking it, I had a headache (I assume from lack of caffine) for a couple of days. Not wanting to have that headache again is my motivation to stick to water.