I drink a lot of soda. Anyone have any suggestions to help cut the soda out??

I made it a challenge to drink at least 3 liters of water per day. I bought one of the large Smart Water bottles at work one day and drank it. Since it is 1 liter, I refill it 2 more times at the water fountain and make it a challenge to drink at least a quarter of the bottle by the top of the next hour. Now I have a hard plastic bottle that is 24 oz. I am an avid Pepsi drinker and I would get headaches too. The headaches still come every now and then, but I can drink two-three refills of my 24 oz waters a day and I noticed my craving for Pepsi has disappeared. I can drink water throughout the day, but it's when I'm eating that I can't stand the taste of water. My solution- I get a cup with my lunch meal and fill it up with a little ice, then 2/3 unsweetened tea and then top it off with a little lemonade. It tastes watered down, but once you start moving away from soda, sweet drinks like Mt Dew and others almost have a sickening taste to them. I quit soda a while back and lost 20 pounds. I'm trying to quit altogether again. You can do it!

Christine_72 wrote: »

rianneil wrote: »

I used to drink a lot of soda as well. 12 cans of coke a day. I switched to seltzer water which gives the bubble sensation like soda but without the sugar or calories. Took a while to get used to the flavor, but haven't had a soda in 8 months.

I've often seen posters on here claim that no one drinks that much soda everyday.. I'm sure there are many more people out there like you @rianneil who drink the same amount day in day out like you used to.

Yep. 12 cans Diet Code Red Mtn Dew every day for ten years. Horrible knee pain/swelling issues that went away when I switched to the non-red regular diet kind... ?! But I miss the red...

Finally switched to the occasional diet orange sunkist (has caffeine!) and Rock Star Recovery (orange, no carbonation) mixed in with Orange Vanilla Mio flavored water the rest of the time. Its a work in progress

YaGigi wrote: »

I used to have a glass of Diet Pepsi every day. It was like an addiction but more likely just a habit developed over years.

I stopped drinking it last year, instead I have water, sometimes sparkling water, with lemons or berries.

You'll feel better and your skin and hair will look so much better once you cut all those t nasty things out.

I went from 4-5+ cans of diet soda a day to now drinking none-1 a day and nothing magical has happened to my skin or hair, and I feel the exact same as I did before, (which matches up to my experience when I've cut it out before).

I used to drink a monster/mountain dew daily. I still think they are amazing. I found a way to cut-down on soda by drinking coffee in the morning and having a flavor of ice tea with my lunch. Also chugging water helps

I went from 3Ls of pepsi a day to cold turkey for about a month now. Any time I crave pop.. I drink a sip of carbinated water that is naturally flavored.. I do that about twice a week. I dont drink anything but water with lemons now. I feel so much better without pop. It was literally taking over my health.

Just stop cold turkey

Flavoured carbonated water may help

Two routes- cold turkey and take Advil for the headaches, or cut down to just at meals, then just one meal, then none. Each step should be like two weeks to give your body time to adjust to the lessening caffeine intake.

Coffee and tea have plenty of caffeine. My stomach can not tolerate any thing carbonated. I have not had soda in so long I can not remember the last time I drank one! I drink water, tea, milk and coffee. You morning teas have a large amount of caffeine if that is what you are missing!