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I stopped drinking soda to save money. Now i never feel like drinking soda....

as someone who's "quit" half a dozen times, strong disagree.

I mainly drink it for the caf buzz, though I don't consume sugar variants. Usually I go through a 12 pack in a week though - then don't buy it for the rest of the month.

or just drink a reasonable amount whilst living a healthy, active life and you can have your cake and eat it too..

Guess it's good that I have no desire to stop, then.

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I used to drink it all the time, but now that I switched to water + sugar-free flavoring, I don't really miss it too much. Sometimes I get a hankering for a cream soda, but that's about it.

Caffeinated seltzer water is pretty great though

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just don't be surprised if it comes back and hits you another way tbh. only beverage i trust to not have long term negative effects is water..

the best I've done was quit sugar completely for a month and a half last year (except like natural sugars in fruit) relapsed hard since then tho

Just dont drink soda for a week. I lost its taste. Sodas clearly not good for you. But if you want to fight to drink unhealthy stuff, more power to you.

AsucaHayashi posted...

just don't be surprised if it comes back and hits you another way tbh. only beverage i trust to not have long term negative effects is water..

Guess what, bud, everyone who has drunk water has died, think about that

we are chemicals.. cals.. cals.. we are.

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AsucaHayashi posted...

just don't be surprised if it comes back and hits you another way tbh. only beverage i trust to not have long term negative effects is water..

That stuff they put in the toilets?!

I only drink Brawndo.

I stopped drinking soda for a full year because it started making me feel like shit.

I tried a can of Coke to test the "you won't like it anymore" theory and it was still delicious.

I get a craving once a year. I'll drink a cup and I'm good.
It's shit for your health fatty

i will never understand people being addicted to soda. like i know people who say "water is gross" (which is crazy enough on its own) and refuse to drink anything but that shit, and even when they aren't fat they always inevitably have fucked up teeth

Italian sparkling water>>>

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Same. Mine has been cherry Pepsi lately. I gotta lay off again.

Lairen posted...

I stopped drinking soda to save money. Now i never feel like drinking soda....

Don't know where you live but soda is usually pretty cheap.

B18Champ posted...

Don't know where you live but soda is usually pretty cheap.

Uh youd have to buy soda and another drink. Unless you are ONLY drinking soda. Holy hell that would be bad....

im capable of drinking soda every day

So instead of people wanting to be healthier and drink stuff thats better for you, well defend drinking soda....ok....

That's not true. I don't go out of my way to drink soda but I will drink it. Someone gave me a couple of cans. Haven't drunk them, they've been sitting around for about a month. But mark my words, they WILL be consumed at one point.

if i drink a large coke from mcdonalds i can't go to bed till the morning if my sleep cycle is normal. that is prob why i tend to become nocturnal every few week or so. like 2 weeks ago i was passing out in the late morning to afternoon and waking up in the evening -_-

Giving up soda is easy. I haven't drunk it in nearly 4 years. Giving up sugar, on the other hand, is hard af.

Croast59 posted...

Giving up soda is easy. I haven't drunk it in nearly 4 years. Giving up sugar, on the other hand, is hard af.

Sugar just makes things taste good. Its an evil im willing to put up with. That being said theres a ton of sugar in soda.

I was able to quit cigarettes, I still cannot quit diet coke.....

I stopped for about 3 months, then went right back to drinking soda everyday. Of course, I only stopped because I got tired of drinking the same thing all the time and wanted something different. Turns out I just needed more variety.

i quit soda and exclusively drink original polar seltzer now lol. gets you the fizzy carbonation sensation which for me is like 80% of the experience, and is literally just carbonated water with no additives so its healthy. if it goes flat, now you just have canned water. eat your heart out Liquid Death

I get cravings every now and then. Like, once a month or 2, then just stick with water and coffee until the next

For some reason I doubt I will stop liking things that taste good.

As someone who was a chronic soda drinker in the 90s/2000s, I quit at least 10 years ago. I now have the opposite issue where if i have something even remotely carbonated it's revolting to me.

Can confirm. I will say the occasional root beer float on a hot summer day is pretty fucking awesome.

doshindude posted...

As someone who was a chronic soda drinker in the 90s/2000s, I quit at least 10 years ago. I now have the opposite issue where if i have something even remotely carbonated it's revolting to me.

That's sort of what happened to me. Quit drinking sodas for the most part 3 years ago, but still had times where I'd grab 1 soda after a month or 1 of not drinking any. Eventually I permanently quit drinking them since every one of those few times the soda tasted disgusting and far from what I had remembered them tasting like.

So true. I used to drink it a LOT back in the day. These days I barely touch the stuff. Ill keep maybe like the little cans of Coke on hand for those rare times I absolutely need a bit of caffeine or Ill have a glass bottle of root beer with pizza every once in a while.

Im a water and seltzer guy now.

Serious doubt. I crave the carbonation. I drink some flavored seltzer waters and it hits the spot on that but it's not quite as good as soda.

It's true. I quit drinking soda a decade ago and I don't miss it at all

I should drink less but Cheerwine is just too damn good.

It's highly dependent on the person, tbh. I know some people who are hopelessly addicted to soda and others who have hated it since birth.

For me, if I ever drink a rare soda, it's diet. I'm one of the crazy ones who prefers the taste (except diet pepsi is trash) but I do love carbonation. So I just keep club soda around.

R1masher posted...

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On topic:

I do somewhat agree with you TC, but it is not easy. I managed to cut down to 2 sodas a week. Took like 6 months to cut down to 1 soda a week. Going to say a year later I am now down to 1 or 2 sodas a month. Will I be able to cut them out completely?

My tastes have definitely changed though. I dont seem to like Coca Cola anymore. When I do crave a soda its usually Seven Up.

The only sodas that I can still drink are Sprite and Ginger Ale. Those brown sodas are not the same to me after quitting drinking them. Root beer is good, but it has WAY too much sugar for me to justify drinking it.

Payzmaykr posted...

The only sodas that I can still drink are Sprite and Ginger Ale. Those brown sodas are not the same to me after quitting drinking them. Root beer is good, but it has WAY too much sugar for me to justify drinking it.

Root beer is not a common drink where I live, but I am grateful, because I remember it being super delicious, and not seeing it on sale makes it easy to refrain.

I used to drink like 2-3 cans of pepsi/coke a day when I was a teenager/young adult. Stopped drinking it to lose weight. I'm not fat anymore but I still don't drink soda because even a little bit makes me feel like shit. Honestly though the rare times I'll have a drink coke still tastes amazing honestly