Help me break my soda habit - I’m failing!

[Anonymous]

Pp here...osteoporosis

[Anonymous]

Here’s a tip - don’t give up Cokes on a Friday. It’s so ingrained in my workweek routine that it was much easier to eliminate it out of my diet over the weekend.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am like you OP. I have decided that a small soda habit is something I can live with as my major vice. I do worry about the calories, so I have become very regimented in when i have a coke and how much I have. So I am pretty strict about having only one small coke in the morning and another mid afternoon. I view it as my total caffeine and most of my sugar for the day and would rather give up dessert than my coke. I have worked on finding sparkling sodas that I like (La Croix lime is my favorite) that I substitute that for all my other times that i might be tempted to drink soda and sometimes do unsweetened tea at restaurants. So I would try mitigation and then deciding what you can live with. Even if you want to quit entirely, I think stepwise is a better approach than trying to go all at once. Sort of like hardcore diets, those kinds of all or nothing approaches don't tend to last long term.

BTW, I just had my bloodwork done at the doctor and the one area I have no issues at all is diabetes/prediabetes.

If you are not worried about spike in your blood sugar,
the other bad thing for your oral health.
Calories will be the least of my concern.

People are so weird about soda. It's not good for you, don't get me wrong. But lots of things aren't good for you. I think soda's reputation is partly about class. People associate soda with poor people and uneducated people, and so it's deemed as worse than many other vices that are more popular among the highly educated.

It's no worse for your teeth than anything else. Just brush your teeth! It's more important to floss and take good care of your gums than avoid soda or candy. Soda is no more harmful than red wine or coffee in terms of acidity and tooth decay. And again -- presumably you are brushing it off.

If you are drinking 16 oz of soda,
You are drinking 13 teaspoons of sugar.
I will agree all sugar drinks including juice are bad.

[Anonymous]

Just keep reminding yourself that soda burns holes in your gut.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am like you OP. I have decided that a small soda habit is something I can live with as my major vice. I do worry about the calories, so I have become very regimented in when i have a coke and how much I have. So I am pretty strict about having only one small coke in the morning and another mid afternoon. I view it as my total caffeine and most of my sugar for the day and would rather give up dessert than my coke. I have worked on finding sparkling sodas that I like (La Croix lime is my favorite) that I substitute that for all my other times that i might be tempted to drink soda and sometimes do unsweetened tea at restaurants. So I would try mitigation and then deciding what you can live with. Even if you want to quit entirely, I think stepwise is a better approach than trying to go all at once. Sort of like hardcore diets, those kinds of all or nothing approaches don't tend to last long term.

BTW, I just had my bloodwork done at the doctor and the one area I have no issues at all is diabetes/prediabetes.

If you are not worried about spike in your blood sugar,
the other bad thing for your oral health.
Calories will be the least of my concern.

People are so weird about soda. It's not good for you, don't get me wrong. But lots of things aren't good for you. I think soda's reputation is partly about class. People associate soda with poor people and uneducated people, and so it's deemed as worse than many other vices that are more popular among the highly educated.

It's no worse for your teeth than anything else. Just brush your teeth! It's more important to floss and take good care of your gums than avoid soda or candy. Soda is no more harmful than red wine or coffee in terms of acidity and tooth decay. And again -- presumably you are brushing it off.

If you are drinking 16 oz of soda,
You are drinking 13 teaspoons of sugar.
I will agree all sugar drinks including juice are bad.

There's nothing wrong with sugar unless you are trying to lose weight. If you are trying to lose weight, sugar is useless to you -- highly caloric but not filling. So sugar is one of the first things people who are trying to reduce cut out. But if your weight is fine and you are otherwise healthy, there is nothing wrong with sugar intake. It's meaningless. You eat it, you burn it. It does not hurt you.

Alcohol, on the other hand, is very harmful. Many people who think soda is the epitome of a "bad" beverage drink beer and wine, with are both not only high in sugar but is very hard on your liver over time. Now, I have no problem with people drinking alcohol if they want -- it's your body, you decide. But I hear people say all the time that soda is "soooooo bad" for you, but will think nothing of having 3 beers every time we go out. It's a weird double standard.

Everyone knows how much sugar is in soda. No one is claiming it's a health food. But the people who turn it into the boogie monster often are not realistic about their own vices.

[Anonymous]

Coca Cola company paid a lot of money for a research to claim calories are calories.
It is easy to understand the motivation.

[Anonymous]

I used to buy Coke by the case. My H and I both drank a few everyday. Eventually I switched to sweet tea, although I make it myself and I keep the sugar to a minimum. A large glass has about 35 calories.

Now I only have a Coke if I'm at a restaurant which isn't that often. It tastes good then but I have no problem not having it at home anymore.

I actually didn't try that hard, I just lost my taste for it. I hope you do too. Try substituting something else for some of the Coke for awhile and see if that helps.

[Anonymous]

I switched soda for Welch’s Sparkeling Grape juice, just as sweeet, but fewer servings (3). I started by buying two bottles then only buying one per week, so some weeks I’ll have 6, 1/2 servings or just 3 servings with my favorite meals.

Or you can try buying a very unattractive soda like ginger ale in the mini cans, we just drink them less over all, and split them up (six pack) so theirs less for each person.

I remember walking into my college roommates room to find he had a whole WALL of coke boxes. It’s definitely a problem in the US.

[Anonymous]

OP, maybe this will motivate you. . .

My thin, fit, 40 year old brother had the same Coke habit as you (intense job, hates coffee). Now he's diabetic.