Giving up fizzy drinks?

Crazyangel

Why not try carbonated water with a bit of squash in ? It'll be fizzy and you can buy low sugar squash in any flavours to add !!
I'm a bit of a pop-junkie too, I know its hard to try cut down, so good luck ! x

Linda32

I've got two idea's, if you go to the shops once a week then only buy say three bottles. Either make it last or don't buy any more until the new week comes around.

Swop for diluted vimto which has a unique taste like coke and save the difference.

I do the first one with salted peanuts, I reckon I could happily live on them, so I just buy one big bag aweek then when they've gone they've gone.

lipidicman

The good news with sugar is that you can wean yourself off it. I took me a year to go from 2 sugars in coffee to none ( via 1 sponn, then half, then quarter). Now, a 2 sugar coffee would not be a treat, it would be torture. The problem I have now is that so many things are 'too sweet': I love bran flakes, but even they are borderline.

The problem for you is that you cannot really dilute fizzies easily. I would say squash is the route with some controlled method of making it weaker as the months go by. Get a syringe for this and no cheating!

You need discipline though to get there!

lynzpower

I sympathise
I had the biggest addiction to DC going, in fact I was well renowned for it, one of my mates drew a picture of me with a 2 litre bottle of DC in one hand and 20 B&H in the other which is how I was seen usually. Disgusting really, I was putting away at least 2 litres of DC a day.

When I first came to MSE I did some sums. I worked out on a conservative estimate that I was spending AT LEAST 750 a year. And I wondered why I was skint :rolleyes:

At the same time my sister started getting into colonic irrigations. On her first session, the therapist had the tube up her bum and the first thing she said to her was "do you drink a lot of coke" Sis goes yeah why, look down. In the vat of *stuff* coming out was a black tar-like substance. therepist says, it just sits in your colon, body cannot process this ( syrups/colours etc)

Ive just stopped, partly financially, patly for health reasons, partly because it was a bad habit. I was feeling a bit peaky so sent OH to shop for a can of DC thinking it might perk me up. I got such a bd headache, the worst Ive ever had after drinking half of it, iM convinced it was the cafiene in it made me rough.

Ever so occasionally, I might have it now, but very very seldom, ie I had one last week, before then I cant remember when the last one was. Ethically, DC is a bit of a minefield as well, which I was always a bit la la la im not listening to.

Give it up lillibet, really its vile stuff. I have water, tea (yes, quite a bit) or value oraNge juice watered down, or squash ( v weak).

arnie&caseysma!

My OH will not drink anything other than supermarkets own cola (not the cheap cheap stuff). Got totally sick fed up of him drinking this and nothing else that I started only buying two bottles at a time and more diluting juice. He now has no choice but to start on the diluting stuff when the cola is finished as I won't buy any more and he refuses to go to the shops. I am slowly getting him off it and the two bottles I get is more like a treat than anything else as they have to last nearly a fortnight each time.

Bargain_Rzl

I must confess I'm a recovering dietcokeaholic myself

When I was a student I used to have a £15 weekly budget for food and spend a third of it on Diet Coke :eek: - cos the bottled stuff would have been cheaper but it just doesn't taste as good as it does out of cans

Nowadays I still get through about 5 or 6 cans a week, but the trouble is I'm now in denial. In other words, I'll think "I reallty mustn't buy it in bulk from Tesco when it's on special offer, cos I'm trying to cut down, and if it's in the house I'll have to drink it!" which means that when I DO succumb to temptation and have a can, I end up buying them individually for about 50p a time :doh: I can't stockpile it when it's on special offer, cos I'd just drink more of it, sooner - and besides, I usually crave one when I'm out and about, not sitting at home :rolleyes:

I suppose the best way I've found of getting round the problem is having a good supply of alternatives on hand - orange juice, cranberry juice, lime cordial and soda - in fact, this strategy was mainly conceived to get myself out of the habit of automatically reaching for a bottle of wine in the evenings, rather than to wean me off Diet Coke but again, this only really works when I'm at home.

It is worth bearing in mind the health implications too. Recent research has suggested that fizzy drinks impair the absorption of calcium by the body. For somebody like me, with a high risk of developing osteoporosis (overwhelming family history) it does serve to concentrate the mind.

jockettuk

i stopped buying fizzy drink but then i found the deal at asdas and have just ordered a load of cans of diet pepsi.. but ive done it this way so that we can use them as mixers over the next few months.. it was to good a deal to turn down and i would have bought these over the next few months anyway leading up to christmas and all the visitors ..

lynzpower

When I was a student I used to have a £15 weekly budget for food and spend a third of it on Diet Coke - cos the bottled stuff would have been cheaper but it just doesn't taste as good as it does out of cans

Glass bottles are by far the best. 6 is usually about 3.00, so super premium version.

Hang on Im slipping back in NO nooooooooooooooooooooo

broomstick27

I agree with the stop buying it thing although from experience i know this does not work if you have an OH that works across the road from tesco and keeps sneaking bottles into the fridge! I dread to think how much he gets through at work!

NastyMatt

With out a doubt the head aches people are referring to are caused by caffeine dependency. If you can not go cold turkey I would suggest one can of DC and then one can of caffeine free DC. If you have it really cold they are nice.

Then.. all c-free DC.. then every time you want a DC drink a pint of water. Sounds rough but you will not want a drink after that pint of water. You will no longer have cravings as you will feel full up (plus it will stop water retention and will "flush" your system.. help your skin etc).

Then start drinking ice cold water. Drinking 4 litres of ice cold water a day will burn 1600 calories a week - the equivalent of running over ten miles.