i used to drink coke  like it was water. I gave it up about 5 or 6 yrs ago.
have had 1 can since and it made me feel ill and hyper so i don't drink it
anymore. now i am trying to cut back and then cut out diet pop.
  limit how much u can have in a day . i am doing two for one day and then
one for then next and then none. to see if that will help me. today i had 2
tomrrow i will only have one f any if i can help it. i used to drink other
caffiene but i gave it up and i work at tim hortons where i get my coffee
for free. now my problem is other stuff ( like donuts and such. i haven't
had any of those in a monthe and 3 days , i'm trying to  work on cutting out
other things like high fat muffins and all the bad stuff that is sold at
Tim's)
  so like i said about the pop take it one day at a time and slowly wing
yourself off of it , or cut urself off cold turkey. when i first went of
regular pop i just said enough is enough and stopped drinking it. hope this
helps you.
angie

i used to drink at least 2 liters of pepsi a day. i quit cold turkey at the
same time i quit smoking. Nicotine lowers the effects of caffiene so you
actually have a higher tolerance as a smoker. i figured i would tough it out
instead of having to quit the pop when i was even more addicted!!

good luck.

what kind and how much do you drink?

I used to be a 4 or 5 coke a day person.   Over the course of about a year I
finally switched over to diet coke and now actually prefer diet soda to
regular soda mainly because of the sugar and sodium content.

I also have gotten down to 1 or 2 diet cokes a day.   But I don't drink
coffee.  My diet coke is my caffeine boost.

I was a diet coke addict.  I drank 6-12 cans a day.  I didn't drink much
else.  I started to drink Kali tea.  I bag will make a liter.  I would
make it up in the evening and chill it over night, add some stevia.  It
was the strangest thing, I didn't even try to get off diet coke.  This
tea with out me even noticing, got me completely off diet coke.  I've
tried to drink diet coke after I was off it, and it now nauseates me.
I'm still in shock that I'm not drinking diet coke.  I have to admit, I
feel so much better.  I sleep better and just plain feel better.  Now,
it's the smoking I have to kick.

Hi David,

I love pop too.  I could drink gallons of fizzy drinks.  One of the
first things I did when deciding to lose weight, was to promise myself
to never ever drink non-diet pop again - can't afford the calories.

Now I am working on my diet coke addiction, making a big effort to
drink less of it and to retrain my palate to water (tap or sparkling)
instead.  I find that if I have a lot of it in the house, I will drink
it all.  A 2 litre bottle or 6 cans would only last me a day or 2.
Now I don't keep it in the house, and try to only buy it
occassionally.  Some days go better than others on this!

I think you have to work out what you are craving, when you crave
fizzy drinks?  Is it the sugar rush?   Is it the caffeine?  Is it just
the taste?  Maybe when you work out what you really miss, it will help
you to get through it.

Good work on stopping smoking! (I quit just over a year ago)

C x

are you quitting the sugar or the caffiene? i assumed both. i don't drink
any caffiene or sugar drinks at all now. when i quit i drank alot of
non-cola flavored diet caffiene free drinks so i wouldn't associate it with
what i was missing. I drank Dr Brown's Diet Black Cherry soda wich is YUMMY
and the Diet Rite brand has a few good flavors, Diet Cherry 7up, lots of
water, Herbal tea only - even decaf has a bit of caffiene.

i've been off the stuff for 4 years, maybe 5. i haven't had a sip of
caffiene since - not even Iced Tea (that's the only thing i miss) but i DO
make Iced Herbal Tea and it's good - but i used to like the powdered kind
from the supermarket.

now if i taste regular cola it's too syrupy and sweet for me. and I think
Caffiene Free Diet Pepsi is great but i need to cut that down. I can drink a
12 pack a day almost!!!

I didn't used to be a pop-addict, but after spending some time last summer
with jayjay, I have developed a weakness for diet coke...  So, it's all her
fault!  My favorite is diet cherry coke, but I like regular diet also.
Fortunately, I also love Crystal Lite, and most often drink the lemonade
flavor.  We always have a pitcher of that in the fridge, and even my
non-dieter friends drink it and don't realize it's sugar free.  I limit my
caffein intake to before noon usually, and after noon I start drinking
whiskey...  Just kidding!  I am also a big milk drinker, and drink at least
a quart of nonfat milk every day.  So, I'm guessing I drink about a quart of
milk, 2 sodas, 2 cups of coffee, and about 12-24oz of Crystal Lite every
day.  That's almost a gallon of fluids!  I guess I didn't realize that.  So,
perhaps you could vary what you drink, and set some specific limits on your
soda intake, gradually weaning yourself off of that and on to other
healthier drinks...

det

What the heck is POP!....lol

Paul