Addicted to Soda - Page 5

SpikeStarcraft

Germany2095 Posts

April 02 2013 09:39 GMT

#81

ever tried water dude?
You drink to stop your thirst, you eat to stop your hunger. The mentality of i need a party on my tongue for every meal and every drink is pretty misguided.

I dont like this, i dont like that... whats wrong with you? Just drink water 90% of the time and have a small amount of soda when you really crave it. If you are so addicted to sugar then youre gonna get diabetes sooner or later. I dont get whats wrong with water.

United States163 Posts

April 02 2013 09:42 GMT

#82

I drink pop because I'm thirsty and everything else tastes like crap. If I couldn't drink soda, I'd just drink lots of ice water, the cold removes any taste. Not as much fun, but it would be doable for me. I recommend against carbonated water because it's a pain to lug around and it's expensive.

YoruWaAkeru

41 Posts

April 02 2013 11:44 GMT

#83

Drink a ton of water, it's one of the most efficient way to boost your brain performance.

willoc

Canada1530 Posts

April 02 2013 15:29 GMT

#84

On April 02 2013 12:04 Impervious wrote:
I drank the regular stuff for several years. It definitely fucked up my blood sugars, which is why I had to quit my old habits cold turkey.

My blood sugars were so fucked from drinking that stuff that I was initially diagnosed type 1, even though I'm actually type 1.

As for how you'd know, you probably wouldn't. I actually found out by accident - I went to the doctor because I had an inner ear infection that was bugging me, and the next day I was in the hospital on insulin injections to put my blood sugars back to normal levels.....

EDIT - as for the fruit punch - the stuff I'm talking about are the sugar-free packages that you just mix with water.

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etc. They have a large number of flavours that you can find in those sugar-free packages that you just mix with water. They're also insanely convenient, and way cheaper than soda glass for glass.

Oh damn. Didn't know they had packets of the pomegranate flavour. That's my favourite!

Djzapz

Canada10681 Posts

April 02 2013 15:47 GMT

#85

Good luck Torte. Didn't know people had trouble going off soda.

I know you don't have a weight problem, but I recently made very minor adjustments to my diet, and lost 15 lbs in about 6 weeks and I've been maintaining that weight loss 100% effortlessly since mid January. I used to eat fast food ONCE a week, I'd have maybe 3-4 sodas a week, nothing major. I also drank a lot of OJ, maybe 1-2L a week, and that stuff is packed with sugar. Now I mostly drink water and I don't mind it, water's good.

I'm not too far from my healthy weight now and I'm surprised that it was so easy. Lowering your sugar intake is definitely worth the effort.

decaf

Austria1797 Posts

April 02 2013 16:15 GMT

#86

"You don't drink water!? Get the fuck outta here."
That's really all I can say. We evolved drinking this shit, we're made up of water and you are addicted to soda. Only in America and Great Britain. It's because your countries have no food cultures, really. You've no idea how much I look down on it.

So that's my little rant. Just with any addiction it will be really hard on you to get off it psychologically and physically, but if you sit through it you'll never look back. You gotta get past that point where you don't crave it anymore. Learn to love water and replace your soda addiction with water addiction.

What you also could do is whenever you crave it really bad go and drink a liter of water, if you still wanna drink more (soda that is), drink another liter of water.

First video is about drinking water, second is about gaming addiction. Might wanna check it out.

Fritts

Canada63 Posts

April 02 2013 16:31 GMT

#87

Pepsi blue? I didn't think it was possible for a human being to like that stuff.

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Netherlands1552 Posts

April 02 2013 16:34 GMT

#88

Don't drink soda? Just gradually reduce your intake or go cold turkey. Once I had a period where I drank a lot too and even if I didn't want soda I would get soda. I just stopped and now I only drink water. You seem to be more dependent on the stuff to function normally but you should really fucking stop. The best thing you can do is start by drinking light sodas without sugar. The taste is pretty much the same but it won't make fat. Also, you aren't addicted to Soda, you are addicted to liquified sugar.

rad301

Canada196 Posts

April 02 2013 22:49 GMT

#89

@decaf
Pro tip. Next time you make annoying knee-jerk statements about other nations, try to avoid the usage of absolutes (only in America and Great Britain, No food cultures). Also check to make sure the countries you are dissing actually apply to the person you are addressing, who happens to reside in Canada, as per the text beside his name.

Aside from that, nice advice. Of all the people I watch on youtube, Hulse definitely seems to have some reasonable things to say when he talks about an issue.

jpak

United States5045 Posts

April 02 2013 23:41 GMT

#90

Ah, i found the program laid out by Dr. Oz:
http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/28-day-national-soda-challenge

IDK how effective this will actually be, but it's worth taking a look, as I said before.

farvacola

United States18869 Posts

April 03 2013 00:20 GMT

#91

On April 03 2013 01:31 Fritts wrote:
Pepsi blue? I didn't think it was possible for a human being to like that stuff.

Pepsi Blue was amazing, how dare you

kierpanda

United States757 Posts

April 03 2013 00:36 GMT

#92

I would suggest looking into a drink brand called "Zevia".

It's a fizzy soda that uses stevia extract instead of sugar for sweetness.
It's definitely on the pricier end (you can get coupons though, so hooray), but most of the drinks almost taste exactly like their sugary counterparts (i.e., the cola zevia tastes very similar to coke; "dr.zevia" tastes similiar to dr pepper).

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More info is on their website, of course: http://www.zevia.com/

And as many people have said earlier, drink water!

Impervious

Canada4222 Posts

April 03 2013 00:37 GMT

#93

On April 03 2013 00:29 willoc wrote:

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Oh damn. Didn't know they had packets of the pomegranate flavour. That's my favourite!

Try it with vodka at about a 4-1 ratio (adjust to taste obviously). It's mindblowing.

Chaves

Brazil315 Posts

April 03 2013 01:43 GMT

#94

maybe some tea? Its really good, and it's takes less sugar

Oakenshield

United States347 Posts

April 05 2013 22:51 GMT

#95

On April 02 2013 05:04 Torte de Lini wrote:

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I don't like tea
or mint
or honey.

I don't like warm drinks either.

I understand the alternatives, I just don't like them because they're weak in flavour or pretty flat in feeling of consumption.
So I'm looking for anyone who's experienced similar and found a method to eventually break down the habit.

This is no different than refusing to eat food without it being covered in butter. You've got an unhealthy habit, you know dozens of ways to approach fixing it, and you haven't fixed it. Nobody else can be healthy for you. If you get type two diabetes, you'll realize how juvenile your aversion to things that don't have 46 grams of sugar in them was. If all of the drinks that are essentially halfway between water and soda just aren't good enough for you, then continue to drink three liters of soda.

Torte de Lini

Germany38463 Posts

April 06 2013 00:19 GMT

#96

Thanks for your input, but I've already started my regiment without soda.

smOOthMayDie

United States997 Posts

April 23 2013 02:54 GMT

#97

I was in a similar situation where I was very addicted to soda, or caffeine of any kind. For close to 6 years I would drink soda everyday, sometimes even a 12 pack of whichever soda I preferred at the time. It was pretty bad. The only true way to get yourself set in the right direction is to just go cold turkey. I did it, and even though i got extremely dizzy, frequent headaches (from lack of caffeine), and just feeling overall shitty without it, I felt better with each day. I'd say after about 72 hours I felt completely normal afterwards. You just have to purge your body for several days :/ It'll be a shitty feeling, but in the end its worth it.

For the record, I'm a sugar and sweets FREAK. Like, sometimes chocolate, candy, etc will be the only things I ate during the day. So unhealthy, but so so good.

But yeah, if you want to break the habit, you have to stop being a little girl about it and just do it. You may hate the taste of just drinking water, and you'll feel like crap, but in the end its well worth it.

ampson

United States2355 Posts

April 23 2013 03:18 GMT

#98

I used to drink a lot of soda, I was up to like a 2 liter every 2 or so days at the worst point. Honestly, I quit just by being disgusted with myself. Soda has made my father very unhealthy/overweight and I don't want to end up like him, so I stopped. The easiest way to quit is to simply not keep it in the house. Don't buy it and you won't drink it. Plus you'll have more money. You don't have to totally stop drinking soda though, what I have done is simply quit soda on a regular basis. If I am in a social situation (at a restaurant or friend's house) I'll drink it, but at home (for meals and regular drinking) just drink water. Do this buy not buying soda. If it's not available, you won't drink it.

unkkz

Norway2196 Posts

April 23 2013 06:34 GMT

#99

Probably a shitty substitute but when i was kicking nicotine sugar became my replacement. So nicotine gums might actually work against sugar addiction. Also i do not know if it has been said, but sugar is about as addictive as cocaine so the fact that you are having difficulties kicking the habbit isn´t exactly surprising and you shouldn´t feel discouraged that it is hard, it's OK that it is hard.

But i used to drink a lot of soda and my replacement became coffee really, not the best but atleast not as bad as tons of sugar. GL

Inflexion

Canada560 Posts

April 23 2013 06:48 GMT

#100

On April 23 2013 12:18 ampson wrote:
I used to drink a lot of soda, I was up to like a 2 liter every 2 or so days at the worst point. Honestly, I quit just by being disgusted with myself. Soda has made my father very unhealthy/overweight and I don't want to end up like him, so I stopped. The easiest way to quit is to simply not keep it in the house. Don't buy it and you won't drink it. Plus you'll have more money. You don't have to totally stop drinking soda though, what I have done is simply quit soda on a regular basis. If I am in a social situation (at a restaurant or friend's house) I'll drink it, but at home (for meals and regular drinking) just drink water. Do this buy not buying soda. If it's not available, you won't drink it.

Probably the best solution. Just don't buy it. When you are at the supermarket, don't walk into the soda section.

When I was a teenager, I drank a lot of pop as well. Probably around 1-2 litres of day. But I was okay because I was young, had high metabolism and was playing sports for hours everyday.

After high school, I just stopped buying it all together realizing how if I continued, I would get diabetes or gain a lot of weight. I didn't have it at home so I just started downing cups of water when I was thirsty. Now, I drink about 2-3 liters of water a day and I actually enjoy the fresh and pure 'taste' of water.

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