Quit drinking pepsi
nathnormand
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i know for a fact that Pepsi is the most difficult thing for me to quit!!! I am on day two of cold turkey, its the only way cause one leads to another which leads to another - I literally have no control over it. I've been using chromium picolinate, I think its helping. Fingers crossed, just have to make it through a few more days and hopefully my body should settle. 0
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I used to drink way too many I now have 2 a day tried to quit completely but the headaches where so bad best of luck to you it can be a difficult habit to break0
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If you love soda and find it difficult to get rid of completely, you might consider Sunkist 10 or A&W 10. Each can/serving is 10 calories....it's so far the best "diet" soda I've ever tasted. As long as you aren't drinking it a case at a time, you should be OK. :drinker:
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I quit cold turkey in June . It took about two weeks for me to realize I can live without it. Coke and Pepsi have been my trigger foods that make me crave more and eat more foods that are unhealthy . I drink water all the time now and can't believe I have probably gone years without drinking water ?
It's good, it's healthy and calorie free .
Good luck !0 -
Try adding whiskey to the pepsi and then slowly reducing the amount of pepsi you pour into the glass.
That's how I got off pepsi.0 -
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Like I said I have no choice it has to be cold turkey - its like cryptonite to me - i cant even have diet cause it gives me headaches and just makes me crave more! I just have to be careful not to replace it with other bad sugars so I've been having 2 fruit a day. Would you mind adding me as a friend, its hard to find someone who truly understands?0
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I'm a pepsi fan and im currently trying to quit pop/energy drinks .....super hard but i think its a trigger food for me also with wanting to eat more. I'll succeed just gotta keep trying. 0
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LOL! That wont work I'll be drunk 24/7 !! Then I'll have two problems.0
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LOL! That wont work I'll be drunk 24/7 !! Then I'll have two problems.0
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It is hard, I switched to diet, then stopped all together about 3 weeks ago. Finally don't crave it like I once did0
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Good for you, im going to be very diligent this time.0
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My advice is never say never. At one point in my life I drank a 2 liter of soda a day. I haven't had a regular soda in over a year, BUT, if I wanted one, I would work it into my calories and feel no guilt. I think it's the fact that the option is open to me that has made it easy- I know that anytime I decide a cold soda is what I want, it's mine.0
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Coke is my soda of choice. It could be my only liquid intake for a whole day if I didn't have reason for it not to be. But now that I'm back on the weightloss/healthy eating train, I've managed to cut it down. I'm restricting myself to 1 a day if I really want one and have the calories left over at the end of the day. I've skipped it the last two days. It's definitely a weakness of mine though.
Ditto on the never say never thing. If I tell myself "I will not eat/drink [specific item or food group] again", I find myself craving it, feeling anxious and deprived of something that I like...which makes for an unhappy me. If I have the option to have it if i want to, it doesn't carry the "want what you can't have" feeling and I hardly even think about it.0 -
Once you are over the three day hump, you are good.0
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I was forced to give up soda and caffeine. cuz of my acid reflux I found out I had 4 years ago. it wasn't easy but I won. Once in a great while I will have a root beer or vanilla caffeine diet soda but I nurse it and I'm good but to much just kills mer. good luck on the cold turkey it isn't easy but you can do it. add me if you'd like0
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So glad to see I'm not the only one addicted to Pepsi. I only have one a day but was told I should quit that for years I have carried it around
drinking the one bottle most of the day. I do drink alot of water also but I just love my Pepsi Thanks for sharing ideas I will try these.0 -
I quit drinking soda about 25 years ago...once in a blue moon I might have a green tea cane sugar soda if I am at the health food store, but it is very rare.
The way I have quit anything (adding sugar to my coffee and tea which I quit as a teen, soda, smoking) is to just do it cold turkey. I drink water and unsweetened tea and coffee in the morning, no sugar and usually no milk either.0 -
I just shared on a couple other threads on the subject.
Basically, I drank DC. It was my 'go to' drink. Had to have at least one a day. For various reasons, in January 2012, I decided I was going to quit all caffeine products (except chocolate which has small traces). Yes, I had minor headaches for about a week and a half. But that got better. I increased my water consumption slowly up to at least 64 oz per day. I now only drink water with the occasional going out alcohol and once in a blue moon a cup of my son's fruit juice. During the first month and a half, I lost 20 pounds!!! It also helped to reduce my blood pressure and I was able to sleep better at night.
So, this is what happened to me. Therefore, I do advocate giving up caffeine. But, everyone's body is different, do what's right for you. :drinker:0 -
I've been there. Previous time I gave up Pepsi I thought I was going to die. Maybe literally, lol. The first week without it was all headaches and misery, by the end of the second week it was better but I wanted it all the time. My problem was that my heart wasn't in it, so to speak. I didn't want to really actually lose weight, I just felt like I should. I didn't want to actually give up soda and junk, I just knew I really should.
This time, cutting Pepsi and junk out was so stupidly easy for me. I had one day of headaches and I have ZERO temptation to consume it. The difference is because I want this now. Every part of me wants to change. My heart is in it and I've made up my mind. I got some crap gene's from my parents but when they get determined about something there isn't any stopping them and luckily they passed that onto me.
One of the things I mentioned on another thread could work for you: I hate exercising. I mean hate it. So before I eat something I think about how long I would have to go on the damn treadmill to work it off. A can of Pepsi is a lot of running my friend. Not worth it. Lol0 -
I absolutely love soda. I'm talking anywhere from 3 to 5 cans a day. A couple of weeks ago, I started on this health journey and decided to cut it out first thing. First week, I had one for dinner and that's it. The last 8 days I haven't had one. I did have a headache for the first couple of days, but not anymore. I now drink water and a lot of it. I go through about a gallon a day, but I don't crave a soda. Everyone around me will drink it, but I just keep with my water.0
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Try adding whiskey to the pepsi and then slowly reducing the amount of pepsi you pour into the glass.
That's how I got off pepsi.
Sage advice!0 -
Try adding whiskey to the pepsi and then slowly reducing the amount of pepsi you pour into the glass.
That's how I got off pepsi.
Sage advice!0 -
I'm good thanks
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Try adding whiskey to the pepsi and then slowly reducing the amount of pepsi you pour into the glass.
That's how I got off pepsi.
I just spit macallan on my keyboard!!0 -
I just quit drinking it all together. I literally havent had anything carbonated for almost a week now. I thought it would be hard, but it really isn't 0
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Good for you. Almost 2 years ago, and six months before I started trying to turn my health around here, I was drinking 4-5 16 oz bottle of Coke or Pepsi per day. It finally hit me how that was too much. I cut it down to 2-3. Then when I was a month into this, I decided to stop it for a while and see how it goes. I didn't intend to give it up, but as time went by, I just didn't want it. Two times it was hard were during a trip to NYC during a heat wave and ironically at a resort/spa I go to where I'd always have one with lunch and dinner. I managed not to, then decided to continue for a year. That was the end of February. At that time I stopped the Diet Sprite I had switched to as well - mostly because of reading a lot about aspartame. Now I get flavored seltzers with just carbonation and flavoring. I also have a Soda Stream and use a natural flavoring as well, or an ounce of juice. I do the carbonated drinks at dinner. I stick with water but at dinner it just feels like I want carbonation.
It's not easy but it's doable. I'm not sure if I'll ever grab a Coke or Pepsi again, but right now I just don't want it. Good luck with this. :drinker:0 -
I had been drinking 5-6 cans of diet pepsi for the last 25 years. I am down to 1 can a day finally, but can't get over the hump to go a day without one. It 's a huge improvement and my food cravings have subsided, but I still crave the carbonation. I've tried carbonated water and stuff but ick... I start to get a bit stressed out when I have a second DP the odd day, and hate myself for it, I don't want to fall back into that habit again. I would like to only enjoy one occasionally with a dinner out or something, that's my ultimate goal.0
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Sprite Zero has 0 Calories and tastes almost like a regular Sprite.0
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Pop was the hardest thing for me to quit too, but I had a SERIOUS problem with it.
I grew up drinking it. I remember drinking it out of a sippy cup, seriously. I learned how to take the lids off of those cups BECAUSE of pop. The sippy part made the pop all foamy, and i didn't like it.
BUT, as for quitting. I quit entirely on my own, with no support, nobody backing me up. And a Mother who kept trying to push it back down my throat. I drank 1-2 2liters a DAY. I started trying to quit pop roughly 3ish years ago. I tried and failed for about two years, before quitting for good little over a year ago. And now that I'm over the caffeine addiction part of it, I don't like it anymore. At all. I hate the taste of regular pop, an it instantly makes my mouth feel absolutely disgusting and slimy.
I still have a small diet pepsi on our shopping trips though, (But that's only 3 days a month.)
PS - Holy crap did the weight come off. I dropped 30 lbs so fast! XD But, it came back. Doctor said it was because of my sugar levels, I've always had fairly severe Hypoglycemia and I used pepsi like a crutch. Though now I've stopped drinking it, my sugar levels are much more stable and controllable.0 -
I have exactly the same problem and cola is a trigger food. It just goes so well with crisp and then what goes well with crips - chocolate! Cola also doesnt make me feel like healthy foods as you can't taste them. Cola and fruit? No thanks! I did give up once for a year and found it easier then expected. Drinking coke then tasted too sugary and dry but it crept back in. I need to give up again and I know apart from the headaches its all psychological. We can do it!0
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