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Depending where you are, Wal-Mart has some great drinks that taste good and have 0 calories. There called Clear American. Thay have 0 everything. Might be good to try it out. It's kind like carbonated water but, better. Hope I helped. Good luck.

If I were you..don't get started on unhealthy immitation sweetened carbo ated beverages.. I was a pepsiholic too but cold turkeyed it and went to ice watet with lemon..now I hate any soda.. good luck and enjoy tbe journey

I was the same way...and it was my only source of caffeine. I used Coke Zero and it helped, at least with the way my brain is wired. Like at a mealtime I'd go for the Coke Zero and I could tell myself "since it's not what I want anyway, I may as well drink water." It only took about two weeks to be rid of it altogether. Good luck!

The way I transitioned from soda to water was to start drinking sparkling water. NOT the best...but better. Learned to love water and didn't find it hard to go from sparkling water to regular!

I love love love Pepsi, it's the best thing ever (in my opinion), I used to drink 6 or 7 a day but quit it cold turkey. The first few days are hard, but it will get better. I started drinking sweet tea instead, which is still not great, but better, and eventually started using less sugar in my tea until I went all unsweet (no sweetner, too many chemicals). I get a craving every so often and have one occasionally but it's so sweet. I can't drink it by itself, must have with food and even then I can't finish it. After awhile you just get used to it and rarely think about it, but my only advice is until that happens don't touch a Pepsi b/c you'll be right back to drinking it all the time.

One of the added benefits of not drinking soda is your teeth and mouth. You may not realize how "sticky, gritty" your teeth get or how your mouth has a "film" on it from all that sugar, once you kick the Pepsi addiction your teeth and mouth feel a lot cleaner all the time.

If your needing the caffine try coffee (if you like it). I'm an AM coffee drinker, but once I quit Pepsi, I would get so tired in the afternoons, that I started drinking some coffee to help. Best of luck.....:flowerforyou:

Which one is better?..... Lab created Chemicals that are in bold on the back of the can because (I learned in a brain class I took) that if the chemical (Phenalaline.. spelling?) crosses the blood/brain barrier then it will kill you instantly (which it HAS killed people, that is why it is in bold) OR So much sugar that your blood sugar goes out of whack and you have just drank your calories with no nutritional content????

Dr. Oz explained on his show that DIET is just as fattening if not more than regular. He basically said it is lab created chemicals that you are drinking that are sweet. Your taste buds taste something sweet and your stomach waits for sugar to come down. Well, you drink your diet drink and the sugar never comes to your stomach so it panics and wants something sugary. He said it makes you crave other sugar food items. I would just quit cold turkey.

Basically, if I were to choose one, I would say drink regular only on special occassions or as a cheat. At least sugar is a real food substance.

I've heard that a good way to ease yourself off a food addiction is to begin with (in your case) drinking whatever your usual amount of pepsi is, and also drinking a little water. The, the next time you drink pepsi, just drink a little bit less pepsi and a little bit more water, and so on until you're just drinking water.

This is probably the best advice on HOW to go about quitting that I have seen on here! You should really try this because I think it would be less of a shock on your body.

Agree with most of the comments.. Don't look towards the 'Diet' versions of the drinks - which they may appeal from a caloric perspective, there's still a load of crap inside of them.

I don't drink enough water as it is (at the moment), but slowly increasing my intake. I found it very boring, to switch from Diet Coke and Coke Zero to water, so I add a bit of fresh lemon & lime into it. Makes it a bit of a nicer drink.

Also I started to drink Sparkling Mineral Water - I found that I still enjoyed the fizz you get from Coke etc.. I love San Pellegrino - it just seems to have a nice taste about it and when I go out to eat nowadays, instead of ordering a coke, I'll order a sparkling mineral water with fresh lemon and lime.. (mates normally laugh, until they actually try it.. - it's very refreshing!!)

I feel your pain though - it's hard to break the habit, but here's a good link to some ideas that could help as well:
http://www.wikihow.com/Break-a-Habit - Remember they reckon it takes 21 days to break a habit (my next two are coffee and smoking) ..

As a quick addition - one thing I noticed when I stopped drinking coke, was my teeth felt better.. Good luck anyway!!!

Rather than drinking the Pepsi, diet Pepsi I drink club soda, on ice - with a squeeze of lemon and a squeeze of lime - I enjoy the carbonation of the club soda and the flavor of the citrus - and it helps me get my water intake - maybe it could help you to replace one or 2 Pepsi's each day.

Good luck!

I used to drink a ton of calories. My drink of choice was Dr. Pepper. I can't believe that it wouldn't be unusual for me to drink 40 - 60 ounces a day. That is so many calories. The start of my process was to stop that. I just went cold turkey. It sucked for about three days, particularly because I don't drink coffee so soda was my only caffene. I don't like diet drinks, so just stopping was really my best option. When I started MFP I said that if I had it in my calories I could have one a week because they are always around (my dh isn't ready to change his habits yet). A few weeks ago I had one and I couldn't believe how sweet it was. I didn't even drink half of it.