I'm serious - I cannot stop drinking Dr. Pepper. I CRAVE it. I can never get enough. It's crazy. I feel like I need to try hypnosis or something. I drink about 6-8 a day - usually I've had 3 before 8:30 a.m. It's terrible.
I've quit it many times before, but I can never get past a month at the most -and the first several days I feel like I'm going to lose my mind without it. Honestly, I really need help in kicking this - and I can't taper off, because if I have 1 in a day, I'll have 10, there's no two ways about it.
I'm so angry at myself, because I feel weak and stupid for allowing to have something like soda literally controlling my life/weight. I feel completely out of control. Has anyone else felt like this about a particular food or beverage - if addiction to a drug is worse than this, I can't imagine it...because I WANT to stop drinking Dr. Pepper, but I keep drinking it anyway. Ack! Help!
Wow. I thought I used to drink a lot of soda! But, don't beat yourself up about it! Just gradually wean yourself from Dr. Pepper. Start buying orange juice, water, tea, light lemonade.
I haven't touched a Coke or Pepsi in 2.5 months. I realized that they were empty calories and bad for me. After not having one in a week or two, I found myself not really craving them.
Soda is the one thing that I can't seem to shake. I know that if I could kick it I would make huge progress in loosing weight. I don't know what the addiction is. I am like you, if I have one I want another. I read somewhere that if you drink soda you gain 9 lbs. a year!
I totally sympathise: I was hopelessly addicted to Red Bull before I started my diet. I was working long hours, late nights, and often it was my only source of energy.
I thought I'd really miss sodas and soft drinks when I went on my diet, until I started drinking mineral/filtered water with a spritz of lemon or lime juice. Now I can't imagine how I convinced myself that I couldn't live without Red Bull or Pepsi. Try it; it might help you kick your addiction.
Just like SeekInnerThinChick said...Why not try Diet Dr. Pepper? That's what I drink if I feel like drinking soda. It only contains sodium, and it tastes pretty darn close! I dropped 30 lbs in a few weeks after I stopped drinking soda, and starting drinking water and diet soda.
1. In many states (in the USA) the highway patrol carries two > gallons of Coke in the trunk to remove blood from the highway after > a car accident. > 2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of coke and it will be gone > in two days. > 3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl > and let the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean. The > citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china. > 4. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper > with a rumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in > Coca-Cola. > 5. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of > Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion. > 6. To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to > the rusted bolt for several minutes. > 7. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking > pan,wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before > the ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix > with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy. > 8. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of coke into a load > of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. > The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean > road haze from your windshield. > > FOR YOUR INFORMATION: > 1. The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. Its pH is 2.8. > It will dissolve a nail in about four days. Phosphoric acid also > leaches calcium from bones and is a major contributor to the rising > increase in osteoporosis. > 2. To carry Coca-Cola syrup (the concentrate) the commercial truck > must use the Hazardous Material place cards reserved for highly > corrosive materials. > 3. The distributors of coke have been using it to clean the engines > of their trucks for about 20 years!
I LOVE Pepsi or Coke. It is my main weakness and the thing I crave the most. I drink 2 or 3 a day. I've tried switching to diet colas but they're just not the same, KWIM?? I'm trying to get back to drinking only water or green tea, but I've fallen off the wagon so many times. I'm starting WW this Saturday, so I'm trying to prepare myself. Ugh! I have to remember there was a time when I only drank water, and lots of it. And it's so much better for us! (I keep hearing voices in my head, "Have a Coke.....Have a Coke.... "
Anything you find to help wean off the soda, please let me know!
Im not sure what your situation is during the day but if you keep a big bottle of water at your desk at work and then maybe take one can coke with you. As horrible as this sounds (I have no self control) I left my money in my car so I couldnt run to the coke or snack machine at work and only kept healthy things at my desk so I dont have a choice unless I hike the 1/2 mile to my car. If you are a stay at home mom, dont buy them and try to stock your fridge with other drinks like juice and things like that.
hi all up until 2 weeks ago i drank 2-4 litres of coke a day and i went cold turkey ive tried cutting down but never managed to stick to it i now think im over the worst of the cravings and the thumping headaches i drank coffee when things got really bad ! if it helps the first week i didnt drink any i lost 4 pound and when i weigh myself tomorrow ill let you know if i lose anymore
hey damn i forgot to say the cravings are caffene thats what makes it so hard to stop the doc said my system was so full of caffene he could have sold it as a stay awake cure
Thats funny Linus, at least make a little money off of it right?
I dont think my coke thing is addictive more than its compulsive. I cant go out unless I get a coke. I cant purchase food unless I get a coke but I'll stay at home on the weekends and not go out at all and not have the first craving. Its weird.
thats exactly how i was i used to go into cold sweats if i tried walking past the aisle with the coke in it my gp said to think of it like heroin {thats rally scary}and think about how you feel when you dont have that first one i used yto think i only drunk mine because i wanted to but when i sat and thought about it i thought maybe he was right if only i could give up cigs this easy and dont kid yourself i still cant go past the coke aisle without going into cold sweats
Its taken a while to wean myself from Coke and MT Dew, but if you stick with it you will become used to the flavor of diet, and even NOT LIKING the origional! Try to drink ALOT of H2O instead, try it with lemon or lime juice in it for flavor. I only let myself have 1 diet a day, sometimes its hard, but just remember WHY your doing it. Its not to punish yourself, its to REWARD yourself with a healthy body! Good Luck!!
Anyone here totally addicted to soda????
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