any success stories of replacing normal drinks for water??

swapping out everything for water was the first thing i did for weight loss, and im sure it made a large difference. however if you are drinking diet beverages it wont matter much since those drinks have 0 cals to begin with, the only difference would come perhaps from a loss of water weight due to lowering your sodium intake

but if they arent diet versions then the difference could be what is holding you back. just one can of coke a day takes out 1000 calories of your weekly deficit

Cut out diet coke about 2 months ago, I sleep much better and have lost 4lb. The sweeteners are really bad for you, which was the main reason for cutting them out for me.

I used to hate water, but now it's generally the only thing I drink (other than way too much tea and coffee). I still have diet drinks sometimes but usually buy them as a treat - when I'm in the shop thinking hmmm, the wine's on offer I'll grab a diet pepsi instead and it still seems fancy compared to water

I don't know how water vs 0cal fizz would/perhaps does relate to weight loss, but it's healthier so it's gotta be a good move!

HI!

really hit a plateau recently and ive been advised to swap my diet cokes and fizzy drinks and drink only water.

has anyone else had any joy doing this??

any help would be so awesome! thank you

Err considering you don't seem to log your food the reason your not losing weight is your not eating at a Calorie deficit because you have no real idea of what your eating. Changing diet soda to water will have no effect because the calories are so minimal.

Track your food eat at a deficit and you'll lose weight

Good luck

swapping out everything for water was the first thing i did for weight loss, and I'm sure it made a large difference.

Ditto, no liquid calories is rule #1 with me. Before this, I used to drink 5-10 diet sodas a day. I stopped as the more “sweet” you eat/drink, the more you want it. Another way to put it: when you taste sweet (even the tiny-calorie, artificial kind), you are conditioning yourself to continue wanting and even craving that same sweetness. That continued craving isn’t going to help you lose weight—ever.

As far as diet soda, yes it has zero calories, but even if I have one the next day I'm retaining water like crazy and feel awful now.

Funny this should come through now. Was reading about the health benefits of drinking more water and I am particularly bad at just drinking plain water so I have set an hourly ping on my mobile and get a glass of cold water every hour during the day and just drink it. I am not particularly cutting down on other drinks but might just naturally have less coffee and other drinks. I will be interested to see if I see any kind of benefits - to my digestion, skin, general health etc

As far as switching off soda-
It depends on what you like so much about your soda to really approach cutting it out.

For me, I like the carbonation. So when I started switching off it, I would drink seltzer waters here and there if I was in the mood just for that bubbly/tingly. Since I personally don't enjoy that taste as much as soda, I rarely use it these days but it worked for their.

If you just don't like water-
try spicing it up, make it something you look forward to. Leave some cucumbers or berries sliced up in it overnight, add a splash of fresh juice- there's a ton of little additives that you can do to make drinking water something that, well, to be honest tastes better. (Without loading up on sugars and calories).

Drinking mostly not soda now, I now can sit down and have one when I really want it. I also don't crave it the way I used to

I use to drink pepsi and coffee all day. Now I have two cups of coffee in the morning and water all day. No more pepsi for me,I can't seem to drink it in moderation like a normal person;so I just gave it up entirely. I don't even miss it and surprisingly love water now.

I would say you've got your title turned around. What's more normal than water?

I'm not really much of a soda drinker, but what I've done for years is only order water to drink when I go out to eat. Or if it's fast food, I just get a cup for water. I sometimes have a hard time getting in my water for the day, and this helps. Also, it would bug me to pay $2 or more for a soda that's mostly ice anyway...and then I would almost never finish the drink. Even with free refills, it was a waste of $$ to me because I couldn't even finish the first serving of soda. So, my "cheapness" resulted in a healthy habit, too. Oh, and by the way, I'd only drink diet soda anyway, but that's still not healthy.