Quitting Soda!

alyssadoss1
alyssadoss1 Posts: 5 Member
edited November 23 in Success Stories
I stopped drinking soda 'cold Turkey' about 4 days ago. I would consume large amounts of soda, starting my day with a 44oz from the gas station and continuing to drink more when I arrived home. My question is, how many of you solely quit drinking soda and lost weight, and how quickly did you lose said amount? Simply asking from curiosity!
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  • Iwantahealthierme30
    Iwantahealthierme30 Posts: 293 Member
    I quit drinking regular soda - have only had 2 coke zeros in the past 33 days (since I started here) before I even started I lost 5 pounds but it's not all from the soda, I'm also in a calorie deficit of about 500-600 calories a day.
  • GetFit4Life2018
    GetFit4Life2018 Posts: 27 Member
    I know if I add soda into my regular schedule I can easily gain 1-2 lbs a week, but losing it is always different. I think it's great you can go cold turkey. Most can't. If you find it becomes impossible, just try cutting down to a 22 oz from gas station or cut your intake in 1/2 daily. I drink the Diet Pepsi's and I'm trying to get off 'diet' so I hope you are successful!!
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    If you used to consume lots of calories from soda, this should help. Let's say you cut out 500 calories a day in soda (or any other food) and you don't replace those calories with any other calories........then the weight loss = 1 pound a week.

    I've never been a regular soda drinker. But, I do drink diet A&W everyday, never stopped me from losing weight. On a (somewhat) related note: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1308408/why-aspartame-isnt-scary/p1
  • laurenebargar
    laurenebargar Posts: 3,081 Member
    I havent had any soda since march. I've also lost 50 pounds since march but it wasnt soley from quitting soda.

  • jamespatten3576
    jamespatten3576 Posts: 71 Member
    Nice work, I've never been able to quit for long. As soon as I get stressed I fall off the wagon. Never realized how bad it was until I started tracking my food. Soda was making up a third to half of my daily calories. If I could give that up, I'd almost always be under my calorie goal.
  • EreAura
    EreAura Posts: 18 Member
    Congrats! I quit drinking soda back in April, 2016 but I'm not sure how much weight I've lost from it, since I was already in a deficit and exercising, but I'm sure it helped a ton since I used to drink it every night at work (free soda for employees). :s I've had swigs of it once in a blue moon, but I don't miss it and it tastes weird to me now.
  • finallyfitmommel
    finallyfitmommel Posts: 39 Member
    And I'm with @EreAura - I take a sig of my husbands here and there but it just tastes weird now. Oooo McDonalds coke used to taste so sweet....now it's just bleh...
  • Bigbenny2037
    Bigbenny2037 Posts: 8 Member
    Heavy soft drink user here.. i started a quit just other day - at the moment i am breaking it down into a phase thing. So for the first few weeks i am basically trying to reduce any soda consumption where i can + If i do drink anything at all it must be diet / zero versions.

    After a few weeks i will transition to something like "1 diet / zero " per week allowed and after that ZERO allowed... i am hoping this form of method might allow for me to slowly remove soda from my diet while also allowing for some "failure".
  • dsboohead
    dsboohead Posts: 1,899 Member
    I say weaning yourself off anything soda if it's a problem!
    Every blue moon I will drink a diet "baby" can. I have lost my taste or desire!
    The acid alone in sodas will have the enamel on your teeth thanking you if you stop!
  • suzfirebird
    suzfirebird Posts: 49 Member
    I quit drinking soda cold turkey June 2015. Had a few sips this past year and it tasted nasty. I no longer get toothaches and stomach pain (happened all the time while drinking coke). I lost 20lbs in 4 months without changing anything else.


  • Momepro
    Momepro Posts: 1,509 Member
    edited January 2018
    I never really liked the taste of full sugar sodas, exceot the occasional root beer or orange Fanta. So for me, quitting was a matter of cutting caffeine instead if calories. In my case, I actually ended up gaining, probably because of having less caffeine to keep me moving, lol.
  • Live_life_well
    Live_life_well Posts: 86 Member
    I am the opposite. I exchanged juices for diet Pepsi. Was drinking 500 calories a day in juices which has gone to zero with the diet soda.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    I never drank a lot of sugary soda -- it was something we didn't drink a lot of when I was a kid. As a teenager I switched to diet, but at the time wasn't drinking it daily or anything. At one point in my 20s I was drinking a lot of diet, but I wasn't overweight then, and I cut back naturally before I decided to lose weight. When I lost weight I didn't drink lots of soda (and it was diet anyway), so I didn't bother cutting it out. I've gone through periods where I drank none and periods where I drank on average a can daily, and it didn't seem to make a difference -- and I wouldn't expect it to, because diet.

    If you drink lots of sugary soda and can cut it out without adding in some replacement, than that's a really easy way to cut calories and I'd expect weight loss. I think many people switch to diet or cut it out and don't lose, because they have unplanned, unorganized diets and start eating more of something else to replace the whatever satisfaction was coming from the soda. (It's similar to how for many if you increase exercise without controlling your diet in some way you will end up eating more and not losing.)
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    Although I was not drinking lots of diet soda when I decided to lose, I was drinking lots of coffee, and I specifically decided not to worry about that because I wanted to use my focus on calories and making better dietary choices, and that I had a calorie-free (or almost) treat (black coffee) I enjoyed and could substitute for, say, a snack if others were eating made it easier for me.

    I'd suggest that deciding you must quit diet soda if it doesn't seem to do you any harm is similar to my coffee thing and it's worth asking yourself why you think you need to. Is it because others tell you you should?
  • Nudgey02
    Nudgey02 Posts: 24 Member
    You may find this article interesting, it came up on BBC news today - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-42542818
  • alyssadoss1
    alyssadoss1 Posts: 5 Member
    Update : so far I've lost 4lbs. I have been tracking my food completely and doing my best to stay in range of my calorie budget. I just joined a gym, so hopefully once I get into a regular exercise routine I'll start seeing more results! Thanks everyone for your responses so far!
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