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How do I stop craving soda?
I'm trying to stop drinking soda, but I always get a craving after a while and I drink it too much. I've been drinking water, but I don't like it that much.
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There are a lot of things in soda that are not good for you. My personal belief is that when your body craves things like sugar it is as addictive just like cigarettes and other things can be or are. It takes will power to stop.
Substituting one thing for another may be helpful but not always a replacement for what you crave. I use to be able to go through a six pack of soda at home each day plus one or more big gulps during the day. I'm now down to one 6oz can of soda at night with my dinner and it usually last me for the rest of the evening.
How id did this was to add up all the soda I drank each day and slowly weaned myself off. Instead of two big gulps a day it was one when I was empty I had water or I had both water and a Big Gulp in the van with me. After a bit the big Gulp was lasting all day so I stopped buying them. At home I slowly stopped drinking 6 cans a night. First five then four then three so on and so forth until I just had then one for dinner because nothing other than soda cuts through some of the fats and grease you might get with dinner.
Is this an everyday thing for me; mostly. Sometimes I will have a sweet tea with lunch or If I have a fast food burger I will have soda. Pizza and soda go together like mashed potato's and gravy so yes there are exceptions. But the rule is one soda a day.
It takes will power and you don't get there over night. Your body is use to all this sugar and you have to wean it off slowly.
Good luck.
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Here is what I would do. There are packages of drops that Dasaini, Nestle etc. make that you will find in any Wal-mart or grocery store where they have bottled water. There are multiple flavor droplets that you squeeze into a bottle of water and then the water tastes like pop minus all the sugar and bad stuff. You can get anything from orange, cranberry, lemon, ice-tea etc. Check them out.
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Boy can I relate. I need to stop drinking it too but am finding it impossible.
My daughter stopped drinking it & said it took a few days but then she didn't crave it any more. THEN, she decided to get a soda when she was out one day. She said just drinking that one soda made her crave sugar like crazy. So, I know its not good for me but I have cut down to one a day.
The only way I can drink water is if it is ice cold. Lots & lots of ice in it. So that's probably not real helpful but its what I do.
Good luck with it. Hope some of the others have something we might both use!
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