Need Tips On How to Cut Soda

I quit cold turkey for a month. I then slowly reintroduced diet soda back. I was drinking 3 to 4 daily. Now I drink 1 diet soda for dinner. If you can get past the first week, then you will be fine.

When there's a will there's a way. If you want to give it up you will! I only drink water, and tea ( no sweetner) or black coffee. Just gotta do it, no easy way. Don't buy it then temptation isn't there. Good luck!

If it's caffeinated then reduce slowly over time.
If it isn't then just stop buying it and switch to another alternative that you enjoy the taste of.

If it's the calories that bother you then a simple switch to diet varieties is the obvious "solution" (pun intended!).

I gave up soda about 20 years ago. I switched to unsweetened iced green tea and water. I decided to just make the change. I don't recommend doing it that way. The sugar and caffeine withdrawal made me unbearable to be around (according to my wife).

You have a couple of options. If you need the carbonation without the sweetness, I would recommend Hintfizz. It is a carbonated fruit flavored water.

If you need soda, I would go with diet soda (make sure it uses splenda for the sweetner.)

Regardless, increase your water intake. For example, For every glass of iced green tea I have, I have a glass of chilled water.

I switched to diet in my senior year of high school. I didn't like it as well at first, but peer pressure (none of the other girls ordered regular) was sufficient and within a few months I preferred diet and no longer liked regular (I still think regular tastes sticky and undrinkable). I didn't drink crazy amounts of soda, though, it was an occasional thing.

Later, as an adult, after I had started drinking rather too much soda (diet) for a while in my 20s, since it was free at work, I just gradually started intentionally choosing other things for at least some of the times I wanted a drink. Now I rarely drink it just because I usually want something else. That happened gradually.

It's also possible your issue is caffeine addiction (I drink way too much coffee now, so get that). If so, the best option is to switch to something else with caffeine that doesn't also have calories and then to taper down. Cutting caffeine is easy if you taper, can have headaches and make you feel tired if you do it cold turkey. I've done both, though, neither is that tough to get through.

How much are you drinking at the moment? You could try to cut cold turkey, but it might be easier if you started to gradually replace it. If you drink 2L go down to 1.5L and carry on .

I quit sodas about a year ago. I drink water, teas and coffee. I really don't miss it but at first it was hard. You want the taste with your meals or just by itself. The best way for me was to cut back at first. I got the bottled drinks in 8 ounces. I would drink half of the bottle with my meal. I just weened myself off of it. If I was eating out I would get a glass of water with lemon(you can add Splenda) and I got a soda I made sure I drank some out of each and never got a refill. Finally I just did not want it anymore. I get my caffeine fix from teas and coffee. Good luck! You can do it! You will not miss it!! Your stomach will thank you!!

Drink squash or concentrate or whatever you call it. I drink a lot of blackcurrent squash, it is zero calories and really tasty so I find it replaces soda pretty well.

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Rubysue17 wrote: »

soda is so bad for you! If you can't go cold turkey, try drinking less every day and replace that with lemon water or other fresh fruit water. Unfortunately, diet soda is just as bad, except you don't get those empty calories you do with the regular. Artificial sweetener is bad for you too, so don't use that in any drinks either. It might take some time, but like they say, where there's a will, there's a way! Good luck! I know you can do this.

Not really. http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1308408/why-aspartame-isnt-scary

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11754527

ajsnskool wrote: »

I've been drinking the Walmart brand CLEAR sparkling waters. They are naturally flavored, have no sugar, no calories, no carbs, no anything...and they taste almost exactly like what they say they're going to taste like. My favorites are Orange Creme, Strawberry, Lemon and Key Lime. Other ones that I've had that taste pretty good are Wild Cherry, Black Cherry, Fuji Apple and Pineapple Coconut. The only one I really don't like is the Mandarin Orange. They've totally replaced any cravings I had for soda and the best part? 1 quart bottles are 68¢!

These are basically diet sodas (which is, IMO, fine). Ingredients, according to Walmart:

Filtered Carbonated Water, Citric Acid, Natural Flavor, Potassium Citrate, Potassium Benzoate (Preservative), Aspartame, Acesulfame Potassium

261 days without soda. I want soda just as much now as on day 1. But it is just a want, where before it felt like a need.
I quit cold turkey.
For me soda is one of those all or nothing items. It didnt matter if i switched to diet because i was still drinking 4-6 a day. Cutting back to 1-2 felt harder then just cutting it out completely (after the 1st week of course because that was killer!)