How do I break a fizzy drink addiction?
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Maybe just understand what you're doing, what the shit actually is you're consuming and let your hate, rage and despise be your guide.
Sounds like a stupid advice, but in the end it just boils down to that. Like the best way to quit smoking is....well...quitting smoking.I managed to down a palette of red bulls in a few days. For a long time. Now I'm on green tea and plain water. Red bull was so expensive, I could easily swap it for very good white tea and still don't loose money
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Just stop. There are no tricks.
Do or do not.
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Soda hits a spot that sugary drinks without the fizz don't. It's why sodas taste awful when they've gone flat. If I buy one of those prepackaged sweet teas I can't handle it, the sweetness is somehow overpowering for me. Same goes for most juices.
For me, sugar really brings out the flavor in things though. The sugar in a soda works to enhance the flavor, while the carbonation offsets the strength of the sugar. If I water down a soda with seltzer it's okay, but it's much more bland, so much less enjoyable. It really is the combination of the two that works here.
With that said, I am pretty picky with my sodas (much like everything else I'm eating or drinking, unfortunately). Anything I don't enjoy much more than water I'll turn down. I like colas and birch beers and cream sodas, not so much orange/grape soda or sprite.
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Don’t break it. Switch to kombucha. Synergy raw kombucha is 60 calories per ~450mL. Fizz is from fermentation, which gives it a little bit of alcohol but with a lot of probiotics that are good for your gut biome. I keep that and flavored carbonated water in rotation, along with plenty of filtered water.
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Thanks Master!
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I have a soda stream and then several flavoring options. I have mio and other brands, then soda syrups, and cocktail mixers. That way I can control the amount of sweet. I personally don’t like the flavor of artificial sweeteners or stevia so I try to find ones that use real sugar and real fruit extract. There’s some with caffeine too.
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Stop drinking fizzy drinks
It's not cocaine
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Club soda or seltzer is a good start, if you want the fizz but not the sugar/flavor. If it's the taste you like, try the syrup they make for fizzy water.
I kicked mine by winning a weight loss bet with a friend. Depression and anxiety caused the weight to come back, but I still haven't had a soda in three years.
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Replace with something else - back when I was actually addicted to soda, I realized how expensive it all was and replaced it with drinking tea.
Of course, might not be viable if you're an american.
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Carbonated water helps
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FYI SodaStream is made in occupied West Bank territories.
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I'm cured
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things can be psychologically habit forming, like biting your nails or plucking body hair
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I did it, it started with not buying them and not including in any ordering of food, delivery or in restaurants.
Step 1 was to replace it with sparking water and mixing a spoon or two of raw fruit reduction (no aded sugars or anything) (my wife kept doing this, while i did the cold turkey method i just coud not be bothered by this)
Step 2 completely replace to sparkling water only. (i kinda jumped on this, but sometimes used to use my wife's made fruit reduction, or sometimes she bought that from a local store, and sometimes i just felt fancy so, there is a method for a drink and here is how it goes.:
Step 3: Fancy option / only for special occasons (lol). You buy the sparkling water in botles, (for the 250ml) you add a tea bag in it and turn them upside down, and put it back in the fridge. Then 20 mins later, you can add agave syrup if you want a bit or honey. You can also add mint leaves, and just throw them in the bottle you are going to consume 30 mins later or next day. Combine things like this, and then you have a fancy drink in the dridge whenever needed. (i never left the tea bags more than an hour in the bottoles, i would always get rid of the tea bag and put the bottle in my edc bag when leaving the house or something). -
Yeah. Or they can start adding a little whiskey to each glass until they’re an alcoholic.
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It was a Christmas gift
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On the flip side, you can buy the CO2 bottle from other, compatible, brands (Indigo for example but there are others).
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My trick? Have severe stomach issues requiring you to cut sodas out completely, and then just cut them out. I quit full cold turkey, no more caffeine, nothing but drinking water for at least a year, and then I started with a couple teas.
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This is what I did as well. I also had to get some flavored water i found I liked the taste of and it helped to have a variety.
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that's disgusting dude. try soda water. fucks sake
