Soda Addiction?

How to overcome a soda addiction?

I quit cold turkey. Because I knew if I tried to cut back little by little it wouldn't stop..but I know for some people if they start cutting back to none then that works.

Original Post by suckafolove:

How to overcome a soda addiction?

 

 I just quit. Don't buy it or have it in the house. It wont take long to get past wanting it. It's not crack.  about 2 years ago I was drinking a lot of diet pop and chewing tons of gum. The more I read about how unhealthy it is and how artificial sweeteners affect your health I knew I wanted to give them both up. Just quit one day. Missed the gum for a few weeks and that was it. Just make up your mind to do it and get it done!

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Spend an afternoon looking up the effects of consumption of aritificial sweeteners, High Fructose Corn Syrup, phosphoric acid, factory made concoctions with 100% of their calories from sugar or HFCS and if that doesn't convince you, then seek professional help...lol.   I found that once I convinced myself soda was not only not good for me, but were actually leaching calcium from my bones among other things, I quit without looking back.  I have one once every month or two now when someone offers me one and that's about it.

8 weeks ago I was drinking at least a liter a day and just decided to loose weight so I quit cold turkey and switched to water.  It took about 3 days for the headaches to go away but honestly I don't even miss it now.  I have dropped 26 pounds so far by dropping the soda, calorie counting and exercising.  Good luck to you, you can do it.

Original Post by johnnypenso:

Spend an afternoon looking up the effects of consumption of aritificial sweeteners, High Fructose Corn Syrup, phosphoric acid, factory made concoctions with 100% of their calories from sugar or HFCS and if that doesn't convince you, then seek professional help...lol.   I found that once I convinced myself soda was not only not good for me, but were actually leaching calcium from my bones among other things, I quit without looking back.  I have one once every month or two now when someone offers me one and that's about it.

THIS.

Definitely do your research on artificial sweeteners. Its scary but thats how I overcame my diet soda addiction.

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