how to overcome soda craving..

[terry brown]

Yep..... the EFT, it is so freaking easy, it is hard to believe!
The proof is in the results!!!

[JennaHoneyBear]

another way to "get over" soda cravings...

I was reading that soda is linked to pancreatic cancer. And if you get that...I don't even think raw food can bring you back

[Tirza]

Here I am - the biggest soda addict of you all, I'm sure. I was actually scared that I really could not beat it. I prided myself on not smoking, drinking, doing other destructive things, but that soda had me by the throat.

It got so I would have to down 2 or 3 "Jolt" sodas (You know, the one that has TWICE the caffeine as Coke?) just to feel an effect from the caffeine. I was taking caffeine pills as well. One day I got so spaced and jittery that I was honestly wondering if I was going to have a heart attack. I looked at my kids and thought - NO! I went off it all cold turkey. Later, it got me again. It was gruesome.

I started adding Club Soda to juice so I could get the burn from the fizz. That was okay, but it sure was piling on the calories. I still took a caffeine pill when needed for alertness, but ever after that scare I limited myself to 1 only. 2 in case of emergency (like if I was driving and couldn't stop and people's lives would literally be in my hands). After that stopped working I just gave over the steering wheel to my husband who would have gotten a bit of rest by then - or found a place to pull over.

My daughter got all healthy and started adding fresh lemon juice to filtered water. That's it. My husband caught on to that one too. He's never been that much of a soda drinker. He takes this liter of filtered water with a lemon squeezed into it to work with him and is never thirsty. It helps in so many ways.

I like it too, but I still really crave that fizzy burn sometimes. So we buy a 2 liter bottle of Club Soda (which is VERY cheap) per week. Sometimes if we have company or it's really hot, we do buy 2 of them but we try to keep it the 1. Whenever we are out, I always get Club Soda or Perrier or the like.

I used to make "Sun Tea" in the summer. I'd fill a jar with water, put in a bunch of mint and sometimes sweetener and let the jar sit in the sun. It steeped and was so refreshing. THAT was raw tea.

I can't believe how much less fizz I drink now compared to before. I sip away on it over several days until it's gone. I find that if I limit myself like that I really do enjoy the smaller amount I drink that much more.

Unless I was REALLY hot and thirsty, I often found a whole can of soda to be too much. I'd finish it, but by the time I got near the end of it I was tempted to just leave it. So by taking a smaller glass of my club soda now, ICY cold, sometimes with lemon or lime juice squeezed in, really hits the spot.

I'd like to get right off it and just do the water and lemon. I can see that being possible because I do like that. But if I do break down and need fizz, I won't beat myself up over it. Same goes with stealing a gulp from my son's soda if I really want some, rather than getting my own. Just a sip is great sometimes. I know people warn against "teasing" yourself with little bits and that cold turkey is much better, but I do what I have to do. I know how bad it is for me. I know I have an addictive personality. But I am responsible enough to do something about it if I really want to. Falling off the wagon now and then with this isn't near as destructive as it would be with alcohol. I don't intend to fall off, but if I do, I'm jumping back on. No sweat. No hysterics about how useless I am at keeping resolutions, how bad a person I am, etc. Just see my "break" for what it was and get back to business.

Same for my whole healthy diet regime. Get on, do my best to stay on - if/when I blow it, get back on. In the long run, staying on MOST of the time is better than giving up in despair. I do believe that we eventually train ourselves to new habits. I know I don't like things as sweet as I used to, or as salty. So there is progress. I don't see it happening in 21 days as they say. We get a start then, but we still have our old cravings jumping around our ankles trying to get a bite of us so we should just expect it and take it in stride.

[freshlight]

Originally Posted by Revvell

Here ya go ~

http://www.emofree.com/Articles/turbo-tapping.htm

I'd be willing to work this with (one) someone for free.

wow, thanks for the link...and for the ustream yesterday,- this is completely new to me and looks a bit funny...but I'm sure it helps! Keep up the good work!

[Revvell]

Originally Posted by freshlight

.... and looks a bit funny...

Yeah, I know. So many of my students embarrassed themselves doing it they'd only do it in the shower. They called themselves "shower tappers".

[freshlight]

Originally Posted by Revvell

Yeah, I know. So many of my students embarrassed themselves doing it they'd only do it in the shower. They called themselves "shower tappers".

cute I wouldn't find it embarrassing,- there is no such thing unless you decide there is, right? ;-) - but it just is something VERY new to me. Thanks so much for spreading the good news, you genius!

[EZ rider]

Originally Posted by edelweiss

haven't really stopped drinking the soda because it just feels soo good to wash down something salty with the sparkling carbonated feeling of soda.

Possibly take a look at your salt consumption habits.

[janetc]

I was addicted to coca-cola big time. My new love is mineral water with a whole squeezed lime or lemon.

The sugar wasn't as addictive as the bubbly. So mineral water suits me just fine!