Anyone given up soda?

I gave it up 6 or more years ago when I was in middle school for lent. Other than the occasional party punch (which I did not know contained 7-up) I haven't had pop. I don't crave it all.

I did and I feel less bloated. I use chrystal light now, some juice, and water.

I think I'm starting to wean away from so much soda. It isn't so much because I want to stop drinking it but because water is healthier. I have switched to drinking at least 1.5L per day before I allow myself to have a Diet Dr Pepper.

I think this weekend I will stock up on bottled water or something and make the decision to drink 3L before I can have a DDP. If this works out well, I am going to find reusable water jugs to take to work with me because I just can't make myself drink the local tap water unfiltered.

Eventually I will be weaned off this crap and then I can wean myself off the other crap I ingest.

I gave it up awhile ago. At this point, I'll have a diet Coke two or three times a year. I just don't care for the taste. I don't like drinking calories either, so I only drink water.

I have for the most part yes, I rarely rarely have a dark soda/cola. The PH in our stomach is 1-2. When most soda's are 2.5 - 5 and above, so that's not good. I did some research (I'm not an expert) on PH balancing because I had a friend who incorporated it into his life when he became ill, and he believes that because he balanced his PH in his body he wasn't ill anymore, he also lost a lot of weight after following the PH recommendations of certain food combining.

Plus all the sodium in soda is not good for me because hypertension runs in my family, I never add salt to my food, because foods like meats contain it naturally, as well as other food sources. I drink water, have daily decaf, some tea on occasion, juice rarely. Rare ale too.

I followed a herbalist's advice on cola/soda which was if I have one to only have it rarely.

I quit like two weeks ago, yes a still get cravings, not as bad as i thought it would be, just when i have things like a burger or an icecream, things that would always go hand in hand with soda.....i was drinking at least a liter a day though.*diet of course*

I switched to tea, and water. Sometimes i use those water flavor things. I drink my water with ice and a straw, it helps me drink it more.

totally gave up soda and I used to have a pepsi every morning. Reading articles like this helped motivate me.

http://www.nutritionresearchcenter.org/healthnews/what-happens-to-your-body-if-you-drink-a-coke-right-now/

WOW this was quite an eye opener- thanks for sharing it.

I used to drink NOTHING but coke and sweet tea. It's now been 6 weeks since I haven't had anything BUT water. It's all in your head and what you set your mind too. I used to try and try and couldn't get one glass of water down in a day. Now I'm drinking 120 - 200 ozs. a day. I started counting my calories and I'd much rather count food calories then waste them on something to drink. LOL I've actually gotten used to it now. I grabbed my daughters coke a couple days ago and took a swallow and it was absolutely disgusting. LOL I never thought I'd say that. You can do it but you have to have a strong want to do it. Try drinking cool water, not too cold and drinking it down fast. If too cold you can't drink it fast without getting a brain freeze so makes it harder. Start drinking them down fast and you will also feel fuller. It helps all the way around. You can do it! Good luck!

Hi, my name is Cathy and I'm a coke-a-holic. And yes I gave it up completely, very rarely I will have a diet coke or diet pepsi, but usually water or no calorie flavored water. But that's just me, if I have one coke it leads to another and another.

I USED TO DRINK A LOT OF SODA TWO 32OZ A DAY OR MORE. BUT I DON'T ANYMORE. I DO DRINK ONE EVERY SO OFTEN BUT I FEEL SO MUCH BETTER WITHOUT IT, I DON'T FEEL AS BLOATED ANYMORE.

I at one point in my life was drinking about 2 litres a day. In school would bring 2 cans one for breakfast and one for lunch and not eat anything else and because of it became overweight by grade 5 and obese by graduation, after highschool I stopped drinking pop as much as I could conciously ( sometimes would drink some without thinking then felt bad after) eventualy cutting all pop out if my life for about 2 years ( lost 50 pounds) untill last summer when I started dateing my bf and he drinks alot of pop always at least 3 cases of coke or dr pepper around , and because that I started to drink it again and gained 40 pounds back over the year , so now for about 3 months I have started cutting it out and if it's around it's hard but very doable , I drink alot of water now and if the taste is to plain I add a splash of cranberry juice

I'm a little over a year without soda. It was the first thing I cut out... it was a little hard at first but now I don't want anything but water. I tried drinking a Dr. Pepper not to long ago cause there was nothing else and it tasted disgusting. I don't think I'll ever go back.

Oh yeah I was going to say that 3 days in and I get past the caffeine slump / headache and I feel great!

I have given up soda, I had to have it everyday with every thing I ate. The way I kicked is was to start mixing 100% juice with soda water to get my carbonation fix. I just decreased the carbonation little by little. Since I've never really been one to drink a lot of juice I naturally just went to drinking water. Now water is my second favorite drink next to decaf coffee. I also weaned myself from the caffeine by slowly mixing in decaf grounds with my regular until now all I drink is decaf.