Tips for Quitting Fake Sugar?

No. I never did fake sugar, to be fair. It seems unnatural. But I have mostly eliminated sugar, and sweeteners in general.

It was a long process of weaning off , then finally just stopping.....I used to eat a lot of sugary stuff. Now I will have an ocassional sweet treat (like once every two weeks) and then I'm good for a long time.

great timing!

I had to go cold turkey (Last week) due to a health issue and ya know what, it was okay. I do brew peppermint tea now and add 1 tsp of real sugar.......then put over ice....tingly and refreshing.

No - nothing like a soda! But have to do what you know is right.....go cold turkey with a positive attitude and anything can be accomplished.

Best of Luck!

I used to drink 1-2 bottles of diet pepsi a day. Then one day I read an article on how acidic they are in one of the dental magazines and was totally grossed out. I was also pregnant at the time. Those two things did it for me.

I now have a very occasional glass of regular coke, but it's maybe once a month, sometimes even less.

ETA: I now drink LOTS of water, and totally crave it. Your body adjusts to it.

Hi Bill - I gave up diet soda completely. I may have it here or there as a "treat", but I used to drink 2-4 per day as well. I think it was making me fatter!!! I only have my 2 tsp of Splenda in my coffee in the morning and the rest of the day I drink water or Lipton cold brew tea. That's it.

There are several diet soda articles on these boards - you can search them. We actually had an article in our Sunday paper (on 7/31 to be exact) that diet soda may be making you fat. Your body is tasting sweet from the soda, but not getting it and it makes you crave more. It's so true from my perspective because I would drink a 20 oz diet soda (w/ice) at lunch and an 1-2 hours after I ate lunch, I wanted to eat again and I was choosing the wrong things!

I'm glad I stopped drinking it and I really don't miss it!

Good luck! :flowerforyou:

I also just cut it out of most things (black coffee, etc.) but when I *do* want to sweeten, I use stevia. It is not a "fake" sugar, it's an herb. And it has virtually no glycemic impact on your system.

I wrestle with this myself - I went off soda completely in March - big deal for me as i normally have at least one or two diet sodas at night as my "treat". I did that to wean myself from my "rum and cokes in a bucket" that had to go and found that the diet soda felt almost as good to me as my alcoholic beverage LOL. I find no soda a challenge sometimes (when i'm out and want to order a drink mostly) but am totally used to it now.

I have always hated water, hated nonsweetened beverages of any sort. When i went off soda, i switched to iced tea. I started by sweetening it, but week by week just used less and less sweetener. Eventually i was drinking plain iced tea (sometimes with fruit though to give me that sweet feel LOL). Once i was drinking plain tea, switching to water was easy. Here and there i still have tea, but i drink my 8 glasses of plain water a day and don't mind it at all. A sweetened beverage of any sort is like "dessert" to me now.

So yes, it can be done. Wean yourself, it is hard. I try to remind myself of the chemicals, and if i do want something sweet, tend to use just a tad real sugar and consider it a treat.

I also found when i was getting used to drinking less soda, that doing a 1 to 1 ratio of drinks helped. 1 glass soda, next drink i had was 1 glass water, even if i had to gulp it down, then i could allow myself a soda again later....that type of thing....

It can be done, and after a while you really don't miss it much, i swear!