I’ve realised that I’m a little too fond of fizzy drinks. It’s not a severe addiction to the point of downing gallons, but I am drinking a 330ml can of Pepsi Max almost every day. Sometimes a little more.
Swap to a 0 calorie version and just keep enjoying it? Fizzy drinks are a pretty harmless vice in the grand scheme of things. Hollow calories, so if you can replace it with a 0 calorie version, it would at least stop affecting your weight.
I know everyone is against artificial sweeteners. They won’t kill you faster than microplastics, pollution, break pad dust, war, alcohol, smoking,…
Enjoy life! Enjoy a fizzy drink! I thoroughly enjoy my daily coke zero can.
Drink fizzy water instead.
Co2 mod to a used sodastream is awesome
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.
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.
It costs ~$150 to build your own CO2 carbonation setup. After that, refills are pretty infrequent at ~$10. That gets you relatively unlimited sparkling water.
If you’re jonesing for specific flavors, flavor powders, extracts, and raw sucralose in bulk on Amazon will run you around $20, or ~$100 total for a decent assortment. It’ll pay for itself in like a year and the powders will last you awhile.
replace with fizzy water
This is how I got off beer and wine during the week. Sip fizzy water. It’s perfect. Replacing one habit with another.
I love being a seltzer guy. Hop water is pretty good too.
Is it the sweetness that you’re addicted to? The fizz itself maybe? There are drinks that are sweet yet not fizzy, and there are drinks that are fizzy yet not sweet. If you can find out, you can begin to substitute less unhealthy options. Then eventually quit entirely.
tbh i don’t think a single can in a day is all that much if your diet is otherwise reasonable and balanced.
do you think it’s the bubbles or the 40-some mg of caffeine that gets you grabbing one every day?
Also, Pepsi Max is a zero calorie drink, so 1 a day is hardly a lot. Three artificial sweeteners aren’t the best for you, but OP shouldn’t feel like they are ruining their health on that.
To this point, for me, it was all about the bubbles. So replacing with a seltzer water did wonders. Sometimes I still have a craving to pound bubbles real quick.
BDS puts most of the big brand junkfood on the boycott list. Join the club.
What is BDS?
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, a Palestinian-led boycott of a small number of companies that are particularly heavily involved in Israeli apartheid and colonialism of Palestinians.
Stop drinking fizzy drinks
It’s not cocaine
I’m cured
Start watering it down. Honestly.
Working in foodservice, I would drink soda and other sugary drinks from the fountain all the time. I started watering down my drinks and actually started liking it like that.
That’s actually a pretty good idea, never thought of that.
hatred. just hatred and anger, fueled by seething rage that’s there in a split-second, whenever you need it. when your synapses overflow with visions of screaming mongol hordes burning and pillaging through the C-suite of whatever corpo that’s yanking your chain, the desire to gorge on crap you’re conditioned to consume just fades away.
that works for anything. smoking. eating meat. you ex you can’t stop thinking about. getting the new GPU. give it a burst of 30-45 seconds of white-hot fury and you don’t want none of that, ever again.
in the words of the wise denpok singh: “hate in the hands of the enlightened can be a tool for great change”.
Think about kidney stones and how a guy I know who chainsawed his leg had a kidney stone that he claims hurt worse
I’ve had kindey stones twice so far and can confirm: it hurts. So much, I’ve formed the habit of drinking multiple liters of water a day, every day.
My solution to most things, make it a chore.
Like, if you don’t buy it, you can’t drink it. If you have it, put it in an inconvenient place so you you won’t see it or bother getting it.
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.
What about the acidity though? Personally I love the taste of highly acidic beverages, but I’m worried if I drink them too often they could fuck up my teeth.
Rephrase this because you mention alcohol. Kombucha is non alcoholic and… Has .5 percent alc. Volume. So fear not people. Good for the gut microbiome too.
