Whatever you call it....... has been my one vice over the years. Even though I know how bad it has been for me, I continued to drink it. Well this is the 8th day I have gone without any!!! I can not think of a day in the past 21 years or so that I haven't had any. For years I had a couple big gulps a day....... I don't smoke or drink on the regular, so this is a very big deal for me. First couple days I had a horrible headache, but been fine ever since. Hope I can keep this up. Any of you guys ever done this, would love to hear about how it went for you.
I switched to diet sodas a few months back, and not only did my blood sugar levels drop out of the danger zone for diabetes, a pack of smokes now lasts me almost two whole weeks.
dude I love Coke. Maybe its the Mexican in me, and learning while down in Mexico to have Coke with Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. The headaches will suck for a while. But keep it up. I still have Pop in moderation (maybe one a week) but you will feel better if you stick with it.
I was going to just switch to diet, but I said fuck it and went cold turkey like a motherfucker! It hasn't been easy.
great job HCP. I think cold turkey is definitely the way to go. Switching to diet would seemingly make it that much easier to just switch back to the real thing when diet was unavailable. I used to have 2-3 cans of pop a day when I was younger. I moved out to Portland when I was 21, and just because I was shopping for myself, instead of having my mom always buying it, I just stopped buying it. Once it wasn't around me, I found it easy to not want one. I'll still have one occasionally, but not too often.
I drink a 16oz bottle of diet soda with/after dinner. Not sure why I should eliminate soda altogether.
Congratulations HCP. Keep strong and don't give in to temptation. Just one is a slippery slope to just one more and just one more.
Thanks man. I fell like a crackhead though........ it's everywhere I look. Every day at work, the plane everywhere.
I stopped cold turkey about a year back and only drink it when i eat fast food about month a month or so. I can't believe just how bad Pepsi is.
If its not effecting your health, I wouldn't worry about it. I'm overweight and know that soda is the main reason why. I've been drinking thousands of empty calories for years now.
I feel better, but i am just too lazy to exercise, so i haven't lost a lot. I drank mainly diet before though, so that may have a lot to do with it.
We're addicted to fizz at this house so we bought a Sodastream machine. Even the non-diet flavour syrups are low in calories (35 vs. 100 for a Coke), sodium (2mg vs. 30mg), carbs (7g vs. 27g), and sugar (7g vs. 27g). The diet options have no calories, carbs or sugar, and are still low in sodium. The only flavour we haven't liked has been cream soda (clear Crush from Quebec is amazing so our standards are too high).
