Losing weight and saving money, I'm all up for that! No pop in the house and no desire to drag three kids to the store to buy it (they have a four day weekend this week). If I can survive today, I can survive tomorrow....i hope.
Saving money is my inspiration to stop drinking liquid crack (pop). I have a serious addiciton to pop and I think saving money is the inspiration I need to kick the habit.
I was a diet coke addict, but like a previous poster, Alzheimer's scares the bejeezus out of me and I read an article that connects diet sodas with brain deterioration. HELLO ICED TEA!!! I have discovered unsweetened iced tea with a truvia (stevia) sweetener packet is just as satisfying! Or Club soda when i really need a bubbly fix. I really miss living in Italy where they had fizzy water, it was awesome.
I've been trying to cut out the diet sodas for at least the last couple of years. I'd always end up with terrible headaches and always caved in again after a couple of days. And then there was the dentist ... I thought it was the sugar, but it was the carbonated drinks that were damaging my teeth!
About a month ago I started to cut back ... now I'm down to about one glass of diet coke a day. I feel soooo much better for it, but am still getting the cravings.
I was glad to find this post and find that there are others out there like me
I'm with you! I just quit a few days ago. It was actually easy but I've done that before only to let it sneak back into my life again. I still put Splenda in my coffee, chew sugarless gum and eat sugar free popsicles, so I'm still addicted to bad things, but I think less soda is definitely a good starting point.
Don't think of those things as bad. Think of the fact they are helping you as without them you would turn to regular sugar. I have used splenda/and other sugar sub's for years. I would go back to suagr and that I won't do. Just got rid of my diabetic med's.
I quit it too, and only have it sometimes (mainly like diet lemon-lime sodas). I was actually "addicted" to it for years, the first time I quit cold turkey of diet coke, I had withdrawal symptoms (headaches, sensitivity to light, etc.) for 3 days. But I got back on it, mainlined it essentially (pretty much the only thing I drank all day...no water or anything else) until 2 years ago when I got sick every time I drank diet coke (before and after my GB removal). So I pretty much stick to lemon-lime sodas now, if any, sometimes diet Pepsi...but diet coke still makes me stick to this day...weird.
When I was in France 3 years ago (before I got sick from it, and really stopped), I had to not drink diet coke because of their different recipe for it, tasted horrible. With walking several miles around the town daily, and water, I dropped about 25-30 lbs in a month, then I got use to the new DC taste, and drank that, curtailing my weight loss.
So I know that dropping DC, and drinking water, and exercise shows drastic weight loss at a point..
I have a major diet soda addiction. All I drink! Jumping on board with quitting. Drinking last soda in house now & will buy water filter when go to store today. Hoping this leads to less sugar cravings as well.
Anyone struggling with kicking the diet coke habit? I was doing pretty good, then I slipped. Then I slipped a little further and now I'm trying to stop again....
I quit Diet Coke about 6 weeks ago, since then i have had maybe 3, I don't even keep an in the house now and I was suprised, i don't even miss drinking soda at all, I mainly drink tea, water and a couple cup of coffee a day.
I used to drink WAY too much diet pepsi. About six months ago I cut down and have been slowly drinking less and less. I do enjoy drinking fizzy drinks, so i have been drinking club soda and I find that the perfect subsitute. I bought a small bottle of diet coke the other day and it took me 3 days to drink it! And last time I had a full diet coke at a restaurant (about 4 weeks ago) I was so jittery from the caffeine it was ridiculous!
As a side note: there have been studies that suggest that diet pop is just as bad as regular pop if you are trying to lose weight. The artificial sugar gives you a taste of sugar without actually consumming sugar and this makes your brain crave real sugar. I have 100% found this true for me. When I just drink tea, water, and club soda i don't crave sugar nearly was much. Might not be true for all of us - just what I have experienced.
okay I know I have MANY issues, but I dreamt about diet coke the other night! I have had 3 in the past 5 or 6 days. Normally I would have twice that many in one day. Have quit before for a couple weeks. Dont know why having such a hard time now. Will keep trying but so miss it.
This past weekend I went Christmas Shopping for the weekend and stayed at a Northern Michigan Casino and free pop all the time. Oops I fell off the wagon but got right back on this past Monday. It took me four days to get rid of the extra water weight now I am back to normal today. Good luck all it is not easy quitting something.
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