Wish Me Luck...

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ditzyscrap

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I need to be accountable to someone right now, so you guys are it, lol.

A year ago, I gave up drinking pop - specifically coke. I had major migraines for 2 weeks, it sucked SOOO bad, but afterwards I felt awesome. I drank water, and I dropped weight really fast without all those extra calories and loads of sugar.

But...I got sucked back in. At first it was just a coke here or there in restaurants...then it became a few more, and a few more, and now I'm back where I started. Drinking 6+ cans a day.

The realistic part of me doesn't want to do this again - the withdrawals and horrible pain...BUT I know that I won't do it if I say I'll cut back gradually - it's gotta be all or nothing.

So...wish me luck! It's gonna suck, big time...but I've gotta do it!!
 
oh good luck Bree - I gave up Diet Coke when pregnant and those headaches are sooo bad, but you can do it!
 
I would never cut back from 6 to nothing like that. 2 weeks of migraines is SO not worth it. I'm with K, cut it in half for a few days, then in half again, etc etc. Get down to 1 can a day and then give it up.
 
Aww, good luck hun... maybe you can do something like add a cup of tea in or something just for a little caffeine?
 
I cut back from about 6+ Mt Dews a day to basically nothing (I have half of one yesterday and the day before)... so I feel your pain. For real. So GOOD LUCK! You can do it!
 
I'd like to get the dependency of caffeine out of my system completely, that's what I'm going for. Part of me wants to do this gradually but I have like NO willpower, lol...I know that if I have a couple, a couple more will slip in...
 
Bree, I'm on Day 1 of no diet pepsi, it's going ok so far, I'm only at 2:10 pm. I have to go skating for 4 hours, so that'll distract me.

Good luck, I don't know if I can do it, hell, I don't know if I WANT to, but I think it's best!

Hopefully you have lots of good pain meds for your head. I know I'll need some! LOL
 
You can do it!! You will feel sooo much better if you do.
I would cut in half for a while if you could. I drink one coke a day.. and if I don't have it, I feel sick and have bad headaches too. So I've been trying just 4-5 a week. Hopefully I can get down to less than that soon!
Do you have any other drinks you like that you could replace the habit with? Caffine free ones?
 
I was in the same boat as you a few weeks ago. (((Hug))) Is it the caffeine that you are trying to cut back on or the calories? Because I have been drinking Cherry Coke Zero, which I think tastes pretty good (not as good as coke) and helps with the caffeine headaches.

-Diana
 
Bit of both Diana...trying to give up the addiction to caffeine as much as drinking the actual pop. But I may start drinking coffee (though I drink it with a load of International Delights creamer, so really it's probably got the same amount of calories as a coke, lmao).
 
Good Luck Bree!

Diet Cherry Pepsi is my only real vice I have left. Not sure I can give it up. I quit smoking and drinking(I'll have maybe 3 drink a year) so I need something! I too have tried to quit before and the withdraws were killer. I couldn't take it and had to pop the top.
 
You can do it! And since you haven't been drinking it for so long like last time, the withdrawals may not be so bad! You can do it!!!!
 
Good luck with it Bree, I know its horribly hard. I've tried so many times. Right now I'm at the longest time ever - I stopped right after Christmas. I have had a few of DH's, which I really don't like so its not that much temptation. I really feel so much better not drinking any, maybe you can focus on that part?
 
I, too, feel your pain.
I was a 2liter of Dr Pepper a day gal...now I'm down to 0.
Hurts, I tell ya, hurts.
 
I stopped drinking sodas and didnt have the headaches this time around. I made sure to take a tylenol at the first sign of a headache though. I have maybe one pepsi every few weeks. Of course I do drink alot of iced tea so it isnt really giving up caffine LOL Good luck though. You could take caffine pills which are basically the equivalent of a cup of coffee and alot easier to stop IMO then sodas.
 
I don't drink soda at all (I've just never liked the taste....I'm a water drinker), but I do have two mugs of coffee every morning. I never considered giving it up, but I imagine it would be similar to what you have to go through. Seriously, I think I'd rather die than give it up...It is what I get out of bed for! kwim? Definitely try to cut back...even to just one a day.
 
Surprisingly I'm at almost 36 hours without it and I don't feel like absolute crap, lol. Last time I was having the migraines after just a few hours, but so far I haven't had anything. I was achey yesterday but I think that had to do with me being at the beginning of a cold and I was playing darts on Sunday, so my arm and back were hurting.
 
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