Quitting drinking soda

I spoke to my best friend tonight about wanting to lose weight....imagine he is 5ft 8in and 120 pounds... the one thing I told him I needed to quit was drinking DIET COKE. Funny he went through the drive thru at McDonalds for his late late dinner at 10:30PM. Most times he will order me something too...but I begged him to not order me something. With his double cheeseburger meal he order DIET COKE! I sat and watched him drink it....knowing how it tasted and wanting it so much... thankfully I had a bottle of water drink instead. DIET COKE and Sugar are going to be more difficult for me to beat! Sometimes I really really crave them!

try Cler America its a zero calorie zero sodium and tastes great with flavors from strawberry to tangerine lime(personal favorite) tastes like soda but also you can get a 33 floz for 50~70 cents. you can get it at a local sams club or Wal-Mart in the drink section

I agree with an earlier poster. Try the SodaStream machine. If you just can't live without pop it is a great alternative. It has HALF the sugar in the regular flavors and they also have diet. It is also High Fructose Corn Syrup FREE, which is one of the worst things about soda. You can also use it to make flavored carbonated waters. It is also MUCH better for the environment. Much less waste. No bottles or cans to throw away. Well, not NEARLY as many. And I've tried it and it tastes great. Yes, it does use sucralose (Splenda) but NO aspartame. I think it is definitely a much better alternative. Healthier AND better for the environment. I call that a WIN WIN!

I love soda and I won't ever quit drinking it...I don't do diet at all because I don't like it...but I have switched to the 7.5 oz cans of coke and it is just enough to get the coke fix but not enough to derail the health plan. It is up to you...I allow for it in my calories...I know it isn't the best for me but as long as you are smart about it it's ok...I also won't give it up because Coke is my job!

I am proud to say that I am formally a Mnt Dew addict lol. When I started my journey I knew the soda, even diet (which I hate), would always be a major issue in the work to lose weight. What I thought was an addiction to the dew was nothing more than me taking the easy way out. I crave flavor, so what I did was got on top of making Crystal Light drink mix. Even after 8 months, I still have 3 cans of dew in the fridge.

My suggestion, always try and keep an alternative to soda near by and ready. If you are like me, look into Crystal Light or the Wal-Mart generic brand (just as good). Also tea's are a good alternative and healthy too.

also if it's just fizz you're needing, try the carbonated waters. if you need both sweetness and fizz, add a little 100% juice.

when i went through that nasty withdrawl, i thought to myself "wow, the soda companies really are like drug companies." i don't think soda is evil, but i do think it's addictive, not to mention all the waste in creating the cans, recycling the cans & bottles and all the "accidental" landfill deposits. it just doesn't seem right in any manner.

so when i crave one i just think of who i'm actually supporting (oil companies, land fills, plastic manufacturers, etc) that aren't doing ANY of us any favors, specifically people who have little voice in their countries to say "please stop manufacturing plastic near my hut" while we guzzle it down shamelessly and toss the bottle.

I am addicted to diet coke at home and diet sunkist when I am at work, I get such a hard time from coworkers and family that I have such a weekness with those beverages. Did anyone have as horrible of a time getting off the diet soda as people can with regular soda? I definitely need to kick this habit, its expensive and not good for me.