Anyone having a hard time kicking the soda?

I tend to do really good during the week and then fall off the wagon a couple of times over the weekend. Sometimes I just want a COKE! Consequences be damned!

Try weaning...every week drink one less soda a day (or if you don't drink that much one less a week)

I kicked coffee and soda at the same time. My nemesis happens to be Dr. Pepper. I literally have 2 liters of dp in my pantry, unopened. it takes everything I have every day to ignore them. I think since my diet started this past weekend, I've had two 8oz cans of soda. I think that's pretty good considering soda was all I drank all day before I started this program. This weekend will be a definite test.

I love cherry coke zero... I also used to hate diet pepsi, here i am sitting here drinking one lol..and LOVING it!

I love cherry coke zero... I also used to hate diet pepsi, here i am sitting here drinking one lol..and LOVING it!

just kick it! I have been off all soda for 11 mos. I had a sip the other day, and it was soooooooooooooo bubbly!
Brenda

As a diet coke ADDICT myself, I gave up it up cold turkey for 3-4 months and now I set goals for myself, like I have to drink ALL my water for the day and then I can have ONE. It's hard, but worth it!

I used to drink at least 3-4 sodas per day. When starting my new habits, I started limiting myself to one per day, and carrying a water bottle with me everywhere. I increased my water from zero to at least 40 oz per day. While I haven't kicked the soda habit entirely yet, I have come a LONG way. And I have found that I don't miss the soda I don't drink. I still want my one, for now, but I'm not craving it all day. And the decrease in sugar has had a HUGE impact in how I feel - I don't get crashes every few hours.

One thing to mention - A lot of people are not aware that sugar and caffeine are not the only problems with soda. The carbonation in soda (or any drink) actually leaches calcium from the bones. Obviously, this is a problem especially for women. Which means that while a decrease in sugar is certainly good, switching to diet isn't a good solution long term.

Try cutting it out slowly if you can't go cold turkey. Make a firm commitment to only have x-amount per day. And replace that with water. It's not easy, but sooooo worth it.

In other words, if there´s something else in your diet that you love more, think of it as leaving the soda for the sake of..... the other thing you like to eat more.
Whenever you think "DONT drink soda" your mind is actually telling you to have it. So that´s why I´m suggesting that you think of the other food you want to have more. In order to seriously FORGET the soda even exists. Once you learn that it´s just simply out of the equation, because you are not interested in it, and you´ve dismissed it, it will be a lot easier. Just think of all the calories that go in your body in five seconds of chugging a soda. Save your calories for something else.
I´m insisting on this because I can tell you have already partially made that decision, you´re just having trouble sticking to it. So I´m giving you more reasons to stick to it.
If you really can´t drop it all at once, at the very least nurse it... drink it sooooo slooooowwwwly.... that should at least counteract the most harmful effect in my opinion (which is that it´s so easy to have so much soda very quickly).

I do the same thing....I have to drink all of my water for the day, and then I can have 1 can of soda. Soda used to be all that I would drink. My goal is to have one with dinner. After dinner my goal is 2 glasses to kind of 'flush' out the junk from the soda. So far it seems to be helping.

I was a diet Coke addict for years. I finally quit about 2 years ago. I was in withdrawal for about a week then suddenly felt better than ever (I drank, and still do) lots of water (10 to 12 glasses a day). BTW do not switch from regular to diet and think you are going to lose weight. You will at first, but then you gain it all back plus probably. Diet sodas trick your brain into releasing insulin to use up the sugar but there isn't any. So your brain makes you crave carbs and sweets to use up the insulin. Also, after I was off for about a week my joint pain was greatly reduced. Good luck.

I do the same thing....I have to drink all of my water for the day, and then I can have 1 can of soda. Soda used to be all that I would drink. My goal is to have one with dinner. After dinner my goal is 2 glasses to kind of 'flush' out the junk from the soda. So far it seems to be helping.

Me too. I have one can of Coke Zero at dinner only after I drink all my water.

I was on that soda crack too. Ugh, I go through my withdrawals now and then, so now it has been substituted for ice tea. Now I'm trying to substitue that for water. Not very sucessful at that right now. I'm taking baby steps.

I like this idea ... only allow yourself a soda after you've drank your daily water amount! Thanx!