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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sigh, I should do this. At a minimum, I’d like to cut out soda. Even if that’s all I did, it would be a vast improvement. I was actually doing great this last week but after a stressful work week, I broke down and bought a big Coke and drank the whole thing. Slept terribly last night.

I’m going to try to get inspired by this thread.[/quote]

When do you reach for the soda? How do you get them?[/quote]

PP here. I reach for soda when I'm stressed or overwhelmed, and I get them when I'm out running errands or on my way home. It's 100% my stress vice. I generally don't keep it in the house though sometimes my spouse buys it and if it's around I'm definitely more likely to grab it. But the truth is that if I've had a really tough day, the desire to stop somewhere for a coke is very strong, and it really does immediately perk me up. If it were just once in a while, I wouldn't care, but what happens is that if I go through a stressful patch, I will start doing it daily and then I'm really hooked. That's what happened to me back between Thanksgiving and Christmas and now I find myself craving it all the time and it's work to resist.

To the poster who suggested the zero sugar sodas, it doesn't work for me because I hate them. They taste gross to me. And since it's not like I'm stocking up on soda to drink at home, when I give into a soda craving, I'm going to choose regular Coke because it's what I actually want. What would be great is to find something that gives me the same zing (it's the caffeine combined with the sugar, I'm not a coffee drinker so caffeinated soda really impacts me) when I need a pick-me-up. Nothing I've tried has worked. Coke is basically perfectly programmed for my stressed out brain.[/quote]

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