help me beat my addiction to coca cola....

[Anonymous]

Every day I crave a coke around noon. Each day I go my cafeteria at work and say you can do it, you can do it but end up buying one; I think it's the carbonation I crave -I've tried substituting it with sparking water. I have between 1-2 a day and I know they are empty calories. I know it sounds ridiculous but nothing I've done has worked and I really want to eliminate if from my diet.

[Anonymous]

It may be the caffeine you are addicted to. If so, wean gradually. Caffeine withdrawal is a recognized psychological disorder. Google it to see the symptoms.

[Anonymous]

Try unsweet ice tea or hot tea or coffee with nothing in it.

If sparkling water isn't helping it may not be the bubbles. I would try ice tea next.

[Anonymous]

I'm right there with you. I've been "off" of Diet Coke for about a month. Crystal Light Iced Tea has really helped a lot. They make it decaffeinated, too.

[Anonymous]

I was you a few years back. I drank so much soda all day. But my body decided it had had enough and I eventually could not drink it or much of anything sugary anymore. My lips get all dry from inside if I drink or eat some sugar.

[Anonymous]

Get pregnant. It worked for me! Just kidding, but it is true. I just want water now.

What about those sparkling ciders?

[Anonymous]

I moved from buying the bottle to purchasing the can.

Next, I would purchase the can and pour out a little bit.

Over the course of 6 weeks I stopped crazing it.

I always have a large water bottle with me - and when I get a sugar craving, I have tea with honey.

[Anonymous]

Maybe it would help you quit if you knew that drinking soda like coke prevents proper absorption of calcium and strips the enamel off of your teeth too.

[Anonymous]

For me, it's not the bubbles. It's the sugar AND the bubbles. I can't stand the nasty cancer-causing nutrasweet and the aftertaste. Bah. I am a total coke addict. I personally don't think 1 coke a day is going to kill you. If you eat healthily otherwise and exercise, who cares? I've read that drinking the artificial sweetners can actually make your body crave more sugar (and cause weight gain).

I know that wasn't the answer you wanted-- but why be so monastic, it's not like your tossing back a six pack of the stuff every day. I love my soda!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every day I crave a coke around noon. Each day I go my cafeteria at work and say you can do it, you can do it but end up buying one; I think it's the carbonation I crave -I've tried substituting it with sparking water. I have between 1-2 a day and I know they are empty calories. I know it sounds ridiculous but nothing I've done has worked and I really want to eliminate if from my diet.

Can you stay out of the caefeteria for a while? Seems like that's your habitual trigger....

I was addicted to a midmorning coffee -- I felt a slump and wanted the caffein boost. A brisk walk outside gets the job done better -- maybe not practical at your job or in this weather though.

I'd try to identify what you are feeling when you find yourself craving that Coke -- I need a boost? I need something cold? I need somethins sweet? -- and try to find something else to satisfy. Tea and honey would be much healthier.

[Anonymous]

put a penny in a glass of Coke overnight and watch it disappear. If it can do that to a penny, think about what it is doing to your body.

[Anonymous]

Try Coke Zero.

Is it the calories, sugar, caffeine, or what that you want to cut out?

And what if you drank another soda equally as "bad" - Mountain Dew, Sunkist, or whatever?

It could be the cafeteria that is the lure. I can't walk into McD without having a Coke with my meal. I think it stems from childhood or maybe the color of the restuarant (notice a lot of fast food places use yellow - it's suppose to trigger hunger).

[Anonymous]

you could always start smoking

[Anonymous]

Diet Coke addict expressing sympathy, though I drink a lot more than OP. Caffeine is the driver for me, and tea helps keep the headaches at bay well enough, but it can't equal the satisfaction I get from Diet Coke. Ooooh, I don't have any in the house right now... my husband, who has decided to stop being an enabler, did the last shopping run. In ten years I'll be writing in to DCUM complaining about hunchbacked osteoporosis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:put a penny in a glass of Coke overnight and watch it disappear. If it can do that to a penny, think about what it is doing to your body.

Do you believe everything you hear?

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cokelore.asp