cola junkie

Do you eat many fruits? I often wondered how I was so easily able to get off of carbonated drinks. I think fruits was the answer. If you can turn fruits into your sugar fix, then it might become easier. And as a bonus to that, you'll be getting actual nutrition from the sugars.

Try Gatorade

Never drink soda... unless its a Jack Daniels and Coke. Thats Ok.

I have rarely have had any carbonated drink in the past 5 years, Before that, I liked soda a lot. Back in early 2008, I started drinking more water, drinking less and less soda. One day I took a sip of mom's cola while we were at McD one morning, and it tasted horrible. The only times I have anything fizzy is ginger ale in a punch at church. Juices are ok, but they are full of sugar and calories. Now, if I need flavor drink I just have water with a lemon or a diet lemonade from Chic-fil-a. I rarely drink tea as well.

It sounds like you're having caffeine withdrawals. If you can make it through a week or two you'll get the caffeine out of your system and the headaches will stop. Don't wait until your headache gets bad if you're going to take a pain reliever. A headache from caffeine withdrawal is hard to get rid of if it's already set in good. Take something when you first feel it coming on and you'll get much better relief. Hang in there; it's worth it all to stop a soda habit.

This. The painkiller really helps with the headache if you take it early enough. I also use the countdown app on my phone to keep track of how many days it has been since I've had pop (170). It really helped me to watch that number get bigger. I read a post on here once where a person had figured out how many calories they hadn't had since they stopped drinking pop, and that mind-boggling number makes it so that you might never want to drink it again (4 cans of pop for 170 days = 102,000 calories)

I started using the caffinated drink mixes that you add to water. That kept me from having caffiene withdrawals, which is what it sounds like you're having.