quitting soda

I made sweet tea (24 calories per 12 ounces) and it helped a lot with the cravings!! Vitamin water zero helped me too Good luck!!

I have this problem. I am a huge Pepsi fan and have a lot of problems say no to it. I was at the point that i would have one or two a few times a week. I slowly started to push them away and as of right now i am at about 1 a week and still trying to completely push soda out. I don't do diet soda, i don't like how it tastes so i didn't try for that at all. I just got to the point that i always have something other than soda with me. At work i always have a cup of hot tea with no sugar and a glass of water and when i start to think i want a soda i just focus on them and drink them. Even when i am at a restaurant i always ask if they have an herbal hot tea and if they don't i get water with lemon. I try really hard not to slip up but sometimes i just really need it and can't help myself. So if i do give in a have one i will not have another one that week. One a week if needed is what i have got to so far.

Anyway to the point, try to slowly get your self away from the soda. It will take some time but if you take it away a bit at a time you will get to not wanting it anymore.
Hope this helps you, and best of luck!

I did it by cutting back to one a day. I increased my unsweetened iced tea to help with the caffeine withdrawal. I also made a real effort to increase my water. It was a huge challenge at first but now I don't have the cravings anymore.
Good luck

Hi, my name is Stephanie and I am a Pepsi addict!!!

It has been 3 days since I have had a sip. I used to drink one 20 oz. a day plus drink out of the 2 liter at home. I haven't bought one at work since last week and I haven't bought any from home. When I was trying to lose weight before, I would take a sip here or there, but doing my best not to touch any of it. Haven't eaten out, so no concessions there either. One of the other things I have to curb, the eating out!

I agree...cold turkey!!! It is the only way.

I drank 6-10 cans of Mt Dew a day for years and years. I just had to give it up cold turkey. That's the only way that would ever work for me. Now I only drink pop once in a great while, like when we are out to eat or something and even then I mostly order a coke because I don't like coke as much as Mt Dew so I'm not so worried I will get the urge to drink it a ton again. Other than those few times a month I drink pop I only drink water.

pepsi max! i love ) calories and does NOT taste like diet at all. (I HATE DIET SODA)

i was totally addicted, then i starting drinking club soda, i like the bubbles...that did it for me. Also, it is like crack, once you are off the junk STAY AWAY!! It sucks you back in..

I am a year and a half soda free. I did it as a challenge Can I make it 1 week. Now a month. Etc.

Recently read this online. May help you quit Pepsi.

http://www.examiner.com/holistic-wellness-in-national/pepsi-kraft-and-nestle-products-use-aborted-fetal-cells-for-flavoring

I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO HEAR SUGGESTIONS!! IM ADDICTED TO DIET MT DEW!! I CALL IT MY LIQUID CRACK! IVE TRIED TO GIVE IT UP BUT I JUST CANT!!

I loved Diet Mt. Dew and just like the Green Lantern, I thought it was my green fuel ... LOL! I started my journey last January and still consumed the Dew. In april, I started exercising....cardio. I knew/believed that water would do me better than the Dew so I forced myself to begin drinking more water. By mid April, I was down to one can of Dew a day (no other soda) and by the end of April, I cut out soda pretty much entirely (I've probably had 12-15 caffenated drinks of any kind since the end of April....and 5 or so of them were during two separate "driving through the night" trips). So I've been largely caffeine free for 8+ months and I feel great. So long as I get at least 6 hours sleep (I aim for 7+), I have all the energy I need and don't need that stinkin' caffeine. I recall reading that even if you don't like plain water, you develop a liking for it. I know I did. Besides, there are plenty of flavored waters that you can drink if you don't want to dive into plain water. My luxury drink? my daily Sobe lifewater. LOL!

Back when I weighed 285 I just went cold turkey and didn't drink anything but water. I hated it at first, but now I rarely drink anything else. I drank a lot of soda and had a 6 pack a day Minute Maid Pink Lemonade habit. Easiest way is to just stop. Just cutting back still makes you crave it.

Step your self down that is the only way to do it , and good luck to you!!!!

I am too a Pepsi Addict...I am on day three of quiting cold turkey. I have tried in the past to slowly take it away and that didnt work so Cold Turkey is the only way for me to go.

I'm in the same boat... carbonated water helps me a lot, plus ice cold water with lemon slices or instant ice tea Good luck hope going cold turkey helps, just got to do it to it!

Also went cold turkey. Substituted for a while with the flavored carbonated water, then switch to Crystal Light, now make my own using seltzer water and "flavored" liquid stevia (they have a root beer and vanilla creme) or I make my own lemonage using fresh squeezed lemons and liquid lemon stevia for sweetening.

Good luck, it's not easy but it's a quick 10 pounds gone!

I have a water bobble and their genius, they have a filter inside them which takes away the sort of tap water taste and you reuse them up to like 400 times or something and then replace the filter. but i find if i'm holding that or have it with me through the day i'll drink that rather than pop. i'm addicted to fruity fizzy drinks like fanta and lemonade but this has really helped.

i'm actually just about to make a post with the link to the site i got mine from but you can literally google it and it comes up! i'm from the uk so i needed a site to ship