Mountain Dew

amjmortensen48
amjmortensen48 Posts: 40 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Want to try and stop drinking Mountain Dew, what is the best way and what can I replace it with to get caffeine in the morning?

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  • IAmTheGlue
    IAmTheGlue Posts: 701 Member
    This may sound overly simple, but just stop buying it. That’s literally how I stopped smoking. Don’t buy it so it won’t be in your home tempting you.

    Replace it with coffee or tea. 👍
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,222 Member
    edited June 2022
    Coffee, tea, caffeine tablets, some zero calorie energy drinks. Have you considered the obvious: Mountain Dew Zero?

    You can wean yourself off caffeine altogether if you want to, but if you're consuming a good bit of it, cold turkey is likely to cause headaches and maybe other issues. Tapering is a better plan, if you want to stop. Misery is optional.
  • gpanda103
    gpanda103 Posts: 189 Member
    Zero sugar Mountain Dew. Probably won’t taste the same but imo it’s pretty good
  • Xellercin
    Xellercin Posts: 924 Member
    I would recommend basic addiction resources. It sounds like a compulsive, self perpetuating habit that you continue to do despite not wanting to. Thankfully, there are endless, evidence-based cognitive approaches out there specifically for handling this type of behavioural pattern.
  • ExistingFish
    ExistingFish Posts: 1,259 Member
    gpanda103 wrote: »
    Zero sugar Mountain Dew. Probably won’t taste the same but imo it’s pretty good

    Same. The simplest way to stop drinking sugar Mt. Dew is to get no sugar Mt. Dew. That is the quickest way to solve your problem.

    According to my husband, who drinks Mt. Dew Zero -

    Diet mountain dew is not as good, you taste the twinge of the sweetener.
    Zero sugar tastes like mountain dew, but not as sweet.

    If you are looking for more of a lifestyle change, I'd need to know more of your motivation beyond "stop drinking mountain dew but still get caffeine" - do you want healthier? Do you want to switch to coffee? If you drink coffee do you drink real coffee or espresso based drinks with sugar? Do you like tea?
  • pcrozier99
    pcrozier99 Posts: 35 Member
    edited June 2022
    Black coffee is zero calories and has plenty of caffeine. Seems pretty straight forward.
  • Jthanmyfitnesspal
    Jthanmyfitnesspal Posts: 3,522 Member
    It really depends which Dew you're drinking. Some are very high in caffeine, some high in sugar, some both. So, are you trying to cut the caffeine or the sugar or both? Or, do you just want to eliminate the carbonation? All are reasonable goals.

    I get kind of hooked on diet coke if I start drinking it in the beginning of the summer. In the winter, I drink hot black tea, but as the weather gets warm, it's really nice to have a big cup of something cold on ice. If I'm at home, I can make a really good strong iced tea latte (with lowfat milk and a little agave, yum!), but out and about I always feel like the iced tea, when available, is weak. As a fountain drink with ice, Diet Coke pretty tempting. But, it's certainly total crap by almost any nutritional metric.

    So, my suggestion is to experiment with really good tea. Start with what you can get at the grocery store. If you end up really liking it, buy better stuff at a tea shop. Tons of variety. (davidstea.com)
  • detourkid1
    detourkid1 Posts: 3 Member
    Allow yourself one on Friday if you can go thru the week without or one every couple days ...and slowly extend the time without one.. that's what I did with red bull drunks and pretty soon it taste nasty and way to sweet

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