Does anyone else have as much trouble with SODA?!

When I'm craving soda, I drink seltzer! It's bubbly with a lot of taste, so it satisfies my craving, plus its zero calories.

if you're in the south, I know you've likely got a fondness for dr pepper. so go with diet dr pepper in the interim, while you try to cut back.

I don't even buy it. Then it's not in my house and making me crave. Then... I actually have to get into my car and go to the store to get it and my laziness ALWAYS wins that battle. Always.

Absolutly drink low sodium club soda (does not taste salty at all, just make sure you don't get tonic water by mistake - yuck) with lemon or lime juice or 1 teaspoon of organic apple cider vinegar from the health food store (not the stuff from the grocery store as it is not the same product and really gross). I used to drink half a case of soda pop a day, but I realized I just liked having something that was not just plain water. O calories! Wal-Mart has the best price that I have found.

Pepsi Co., facing a lawsuit from a man who claims to have found a mouse in his Mountain Dew can, has an especially creative, if disgusting, defense: their soda would have dissolved a dead mouse before the man could have found it. An Illinois man sued Pepsi in 2009 after he claims he "spat out the soda to reveal a dead mouse," the Madison County Record reports. He claims he sent the mouse to Pepsi, which then "destroyed" the remains after he allowed them to test it, according to his complaint. Most shudder-worthy, however, is that Pepsi's lawyers also found experts to testify, based on the state of the remains sent to them that, "the mouse would have dissolved in the soda had it been in the can from the time of its bottling until the day the plaintiff drank it," according to the Record. (It would have become a "jelly-like substance," according to Pepsi, adds LegalNewsline.) This seems like a winning-the-battle-while-surrendering-the-war kind of strategy that hinges on winning the argument that "our product is essentially a can of battery acid." The lawyers still appear to be lawyering behind the scenes but we cannot wait for this to come to trial (though we think a trial is about as likely as the chances of us "Doing the Dew" again).

Syfo lemon-lime is good.

LOL, I'm serious tho...

Only on the weekend, I buy the cheapy, non-favs, diet "Cokes" (from the South, too) and insist on 4 bottles of water for every one Coke. Works

I read somewhere on here about someone who simply dropped the cokes and in 6 months, with little to no exercise, dropped 20+ pounds! amazing

you can do this...plan thoroughly!

Pepsi Co., facing a lawsuit from a man who claims to have found a mouse in his Mountain Dew can, has an especially creative, if disgusting, defense: their soda would have dissolved a dead mouse before the man could have found it. An Illinois man sued Pepsi in 2009 after he claims he "spat out the soda to reveal a dead mouse," the Madison County Record reports. He claims he sent the mouse to Pepsi, which then "destroyed" the remains after he allowed them to test it, according to his complaint. Most shudder-worthy, however, is that Pepsi's lawyers also found experts to testify, based on the state of the remains sent to them that, "the mouse would have dissolved in the soda had it been in the can from the time of its bottling until the day the plaintiff drank it," according to the Record. (It would have become a "jelly-like substance," according to Pepsi, adds LegalNewsline.) This seems like a winning-the-battle-while-surrendering-the-war kind of strategy that hinges on winning the argument that "our product is essentially a can of battery acid." The lawyers still appear to be lawyering behind the scenes but we cannot wait for this to come to trial (though we think a trial is about as likely as the chances of us "Doing the Dew" again).

Ah yes! Lol so my husband works for Coke, me for Pepsi, we about died when we heard this. To this uneducated man he really should have looked into the possibility of it even happening. Grr. . It's not the first thing to be said. There was a claim of rat feces in soda also. Although more possible, still not likely as the soda would destroy the evidence, so to speak . . . Yuck! Literally within days. So unless he is an employee at a botteling plant is just not phesable. . .

Back to here... Is it the soda you crave or the bubbles? Its hard here with both of us working for the companies. That was one of our new years resolutions too. Try the flavored, carbonated water? It might help. . . You know what sounds good? Sunkist and vanilla ice cream . . . Oh yum. Focus focus, carrots and celery!

I like your suggestion. I think I'm going to try that.

For many years I was a Coke addict. I had one in the morning, drank them throughout the day, and had one on the night stand at night. When I finally decided to give them up, I went cold turkey and could not deal with the withdrawls (headaches, grouchiness). Then someone suggested to drink a cup at a time and dillute it with water. That worked to get me off of them. Now I rarely touch one. Sometime I get the desire for that carbonated feel and I found drinking a product "Sparkling Ice" that satisfies that craving. You can do!!!

my thought is that if diet soda is your vice, there are worse vices.

bad for you? well, it can add to reflux problems. but the other blog-promoted doomsday health bulletins about diet soda don't really pass the biochemical smell test.

a lot of those same blogs are written by anti-vaxers. as someone trained in immunology, i won't bore you with my long screed about how flawed their "science" is. i can't imagine that their take on diet soda is much more accurate.

is there something wrong with drinking mostly water? certainly not. i try to drink more myself. if you want to have a diet coke now and again, though, i just don't see the problem.

Cut out as much refined sugar as you can from all areas, not just sodas. This will help. So long as you have refined sugars in anything you eat, your body will crave it, and eventually you'll start drinking it again. Worked for me anyway. I used to drink 6 to 12 cans of coke a day.