Soda

I used to drink soda daily but I have maybe just maybe 1 -2 a week infact I honestly can't recall when the last time I had one was. I usually have 700ml of plain cold water with lemon in it, the to treat my self with something a little sugary I put mio or crystal light in the next 700ml, and once I am done that just plain cold water. That helped me!

I had to kick a Pepsi habit, so I can feel for you! I did it by using Crystal Light for a while and then tapered down to just water. Now, just plain water or unsweetened tea is what I drink. You can get there, but it is a tough habit to give up. Once I got it to where I didn't need it every day, then I'd have maybe one a week. But even then, the thrill was no longer there. So I just don't drink it anymore. I don't miss it. Now.

I mostly went from Mt. Dew to juice. Started with the Naked Green Juice and slowly moved over to more of a fruit smoothie with lots of carrot juice and frozen fruits in it. For me, I just like the quick sugar rush and that juice actually has some nutrients in it too so it's a win win for me.

Normally have one in the morning, one after workout and one at night. I've been lowering the calories per drink over time so each is about 220 calories now, about the same as a can of soda.

im trying to kick it too. just stick with it. personally i went like 3 weeks + and then had a soda, now ive had one 3 days in a row. you start to crave them again.

Tea, Green Tea, Water, Almond Milk. (this is what i am going to try to stick with)

Try drinking Diet Dr.Pepper, its better than quitting cold turkey, I gave up pepsi but drink Diet Pepsi and enjoy it more, same with Coke Zero.

Diet Dr Pepper, I hope is what you're drinking?

Hopefully you are not located in TN, where the Middle Tennessee Dr Pepper Bottling distribution center is located. Man, everytime I visit my brother during the 4th of July, the Dr. Pepper plant gives out unlimited drinks. Talk about adding gasoline to a fire.

I eased my way out .Went from soda to juice, juice to smoothies, smoothies to flavored water.

For me, I think it was mostly a sugar addiction rather than a caffeine one .Although I am addicted to caffeine now, so i drink diet soda now. I find I don't crave diet soda, though, the way I craved non-diet. (coffee and tea please me the same way diet soda does)

Different things will work for different people. My mother found she has had the same success as what I did. Only she went to tea as for her, it was the caffeine. From tea, she's working on going to juice. Then, to water.

Try to pick a new drink that will be your "Dr Pepper" I went from drinking several diet cokes a day to drinking as much unsweatened tea as I could get my hands on.

I haven't had a soda since the last time I logged one in my food diary. It's hard. Very hard. The temptation is still there, but it's getting easier. I noticed the more water I drink, the more my body craves it. It is starting not to want the soda nearly as much as water. The first week, I would get terrible headaches. Now though, I feel great. My energy has increased, I sleep better, overall my body feels better.

The key is to just stick with it and if you slip up, get back on the horse and try again.

reduce gradually is my advice. I was drinking several sodas a day, but reduced it to just one a day, and now I get one soda a week. It isn't easy, but I've been soda free for over a week now.

I've also noticed that with less soda drinking, I am having TROUBLE reaching my calories for the day.

I kicked soda about... 4 months ago now.

My path was as follows, I dropped all soda with HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup), Pepsi makes a throwback variant of several types, they used to do Dr. Pepper but stopped. I noticed that the real sugar was more satiating to me, and thus I went from a 4-6 can a day habit to 1-2 a day. That one change knocked my calorie intake down by at least 2-300 points a day.

I then drank all the soda in the house and switched to straight water. You really just need to figure out how you like your water. I prefer mine chilled without ice from a brita filter (the brita is somewhat irrelevent IMO, I could probably just fill a pitcher of tap water and be happy). Once you figure out how you like your water, keep yourself in close access to it and drink it as much as possible.

Nice side benefit, you also save significant amounts of money.

Giving up soda is something I'm about to have to deal with also. My 'drug of choice' is Mr. Pibb. I got down to drinking one 8 oz Coke every day or two when I was losing weight a year ago. When I got sick and started gaining weight, the Coke count creeped back up: at this point, I drink so much that I look around & say "where is that box of Coke that I bought two days ago?"

What worked for me before & I hope will again, is scheduling cutbacks. 'I will drink X oz a day for the next Y days." Then I dropped 5 oz a day for the next period of time. It was difficult, but it worked.