Giving up diet soda...help!

I drink 2 or 3 Diet Pepsi a day and have lost a few pounds..... Don't plan on giving it up anytime soon... It is definitely a personal preference.... Good Luck....

Think about this- you are going through caffeine withdrawal-drug withdrawal! It doesn't take long to get past the headaches, and you can use something like a 5 hour energy if you really need. You don't need to drink 12 ounces to get what you want with caffeine. But your body is hooked which should be a good sign to you that you shouldn't be consuming a substance like that in the first place. You can get through this! Baby steps. If you are a heavy soda drinker, start by cutting back first before going cold turkey so you don't set yourself up.

I hear ya on caffeine withdrawals - if I don't get my cup of coffee in the morning my day is screwed.

I really would encourage you to kick that soda habit. Diet soda is straight up just - awful for you. I don't like to preach at people but if you want to be healthy you just can't consume that crap on a regular basis. Try to just cut back on it for a while; you can avoid the worst of those withdrawal headaches if you phase it out gradually.

I gave up soda but not caffeine. I chose a time when I was going to have a change anyway - was going to be off work for a couple weeks. So as I drove home from work that last day before the break, I drank my last soda. Doing it when something else in the schedule was changing seemed to help me do it.

I now substitute unsweetened tea or coffee. I didn't choose to do all the crystal light kind of stuff because I was moving away from the artificial ingredients. I didn't choose to give up caffeine because IMO if it contained caffeine the way it grew, and they have to chemically remove it, I'll just drink it with the caffeine. So I have had no caffeine withdrawal.

I have sipped a soda a few times since going off them (last December). I now find the GROSS.

Since moving to tea, I find myself on occasion choosing water. I can tell you, that would not have happened before. It's not to say I don't know it's good for me, I just hated it. I think it was cravings for the sodas. Now without soda, water has started tasting fresher to me. Tea is refreshing... Yesterday I had an unsweetened passion fruit tea at starbucks trying to find an option that was cold. It was tart and refreshing.

I was drinking up to 2L a day of diet coke. If I can get to this point maybe I can help you get there too.

Cut it down little by little. I used to be hooked on Iced Caps. I used to Drink a Large one made with heavy cream every day! It took about a week to cut it, drinking less & less each day, then none when you have 2 free days. You will get the worst headache of your life the first day you don't have it. Then it gets better from there.

If you need the caffeine, switch to a tea or an iced tea for summer.

You can treat yourself once a week to a small glass of pop after that if you enjoy it, just not every day or you will have to go through that week again. those headaches, no thank you!

caffeinne withdrawal headaches are for realz.

I think this - substitute something healthier for it - something you would enjoy. even if its not necessarily diet.. When you enjoy that, and not the soda pop, your taste for the soda will go away after maybe 1-3 weeks time.

then when you conquor that, substitute a more healthy drink for the one you were drinking.. Its kinda like when hospitals get you off heroin, they give you morphine in order to handle it.

And stop referring to soda pop as "nectar of the gods" that way you are making it even more harder to leave aside. So please think of soda pop as neutral like a piece of paper or something that would not make you want it.

I need the caffeine, or I think I do. I feel like I get a headache without caffeine. I'm not huge on coffee. I know its probably killing my diet even though the sodas are diet. Grrr!
Need some motivation or some sort of input on what to do in place of the bubbly nectar of the Gods.

I make ice tea (from bags not powder) and add in some fake sweetner. As the week goes on, I use more and more ice/water in my tea, so that by the end of the week/beginning of the next week I can just switch to water, and hey presto! no headaches - because I've tapered off.

Green Tea.
I start every day with 32 ounces of it.
Don't buy the bottles though, some of them have a lot of sugar/sweetener and preservatives in them.
I throw 3 lipton green tea bags in a pitcher (glass, not plastic) filled with water and put in the micro for 4 minutes, stick it in the fridge after an hour or so - that's it. If you need to put stevia or some other sweetener in it you can - when i'm craving something a little sweet I put agave in it.
It's supposed to have some thermogenic properties too but I can't confirm that - I think Dr. Oz or Dr. Phil or someone said that once on their show and price of green tea soared for a couple weeks.

It is supposed to have thermogenic properties however you would need to drink a LOT of it in order to benefit. Like 8-10 cups a day (or something ridiculous like that. I can't remember the exact amount but I know it's a lot)

Green Tea.
I start every day with 32 ounces of it.
Don't buy the bottles though, some of them have a lot of sugar/sweetener and preservatives in them.
I throw 3 lipton green tea bags in a pitcher (glass, not plastic) filled with water and put in the micro for 4 minutes, stick it in the fridge after an hour or so - that's it. If you need to put stevia or some other sweetener in it you can - when i'm craving something a little sweet I put agave in it.
It's supposed to have some thermogenic properties too but I can't confirm that - I think Dr. Oz or Dr. Phil or someone said that once on their show and price of green tea soared for a couple weeks.

It is supposed to have thermogenic properties however you would need to drink a LOT of it in order to benefit. Like 8-10 cups a day (or something ridiculous like that. I can't remember the exact amount but I know it's a lot)

Well, if I drink 4 cups of it every morning along with my coconut oil, raspberry ketones, green coffee extract, chili powder, ground up unicorn horn, troll bone marrow and zombie saliva I should be able to add 10 calories to my daily allowance.