Addicted to fizzy juice, want to stop. Has anyone done it?

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Looking to see if anyone has been in the same position as me. I am addicted to fizzy juice, have been for years. Drink around 8-10 cans a day! I am overweight and feel the fizzy juice is also affecting my health. Has anyone ever been addicted and stopped taking it? Thinking about just starting tomorrow and drinking none, so no gradual reducing. Sounds silly to some but it is a thing that you can get really addicted to lol

Could you replace with diluted squash with sparkling water?

I've done this and the only thing that worked for me was to cold turkey it. Not nice for a couple of days but it works. I am sure these drinks trigger an insulin response as I also lost weight. Good luck

I got a filter jug and a soda stream. I got used to it

What do you mean by fizzy juice? I think it matters what it actually is as some are more addictive.

Yes, I was addicted to diet coke. I have stopped cold turkey twice now. First time I lasted a year and then I'd have the odd one and eventually was hooked again. Second, and last time, have stopped for nearly a year. I drink cold sparkling water now. I had a fuzzy head for a few days with the caffeine and aspartame withdrawal and then I was fine. Best thing I have done. My taste buds have changed and I don't crave sugar now. You can do it!!

By fizzy juice do you mean fizzy water and oramge juice? I drink that sometimes. I think I'm hooked on fizzy water!

You need to drink a litre of water early in the morning, then another at lunchtime, you'd be surprised how much of the craving is actually thirst and if your body is hydrated properly, the craving should decrease dramatically.

I’ve not given up fizzy pop as I don’t drink it but I have gone cold Turkey with chocolate. It’s hard, you get a hangover type feeling and shocking headache the first few days but you soon adapt. I’m on day 6 now and definitely seeing the benefits to my sleep. I’ve done it before and post half a stone but no signs of weight loss on the scales just yet. I’ve found drinking fizzy water with lemon squeezed in helps my sugar cravings
Good luck!

Oh I'm the same with fizzy drinks. I make very dilute squash instead of buying actual fizzy pop (1 part squash to about 20 parts water). And then feel guilty about the plastic bottles and the transport emissions of moving water around.

I think it depends how much sugar and caffeine you have. I'd reduce a bit more gradually than cold turkey. I gave up caffeine last year and felt terrible with awful headache for a couple of days

@WestSideBoom @RememberSelfCompassion I mean irn bru and Coca Cola.

Are you Scottish? I used the term fizzy juice once and it confused the bejeezus out of English people!

I have given up before, I had tried and failed and then just got into the right mindset one day and did it no problem. I was drinking 1-2l a day.

I've let the habit sneak back up on me lately and need to knock it on the head again.

Fizzy flavoured water from Asda or tescos. It's the only thing that cures my craving when I want coke. Went from drinks tons of coke a day to fizzy water quite quickly. About 6 months later I was happy to drink squash and tap water but still have the flavoured water, the bloat went down after a couple of weeks and I think I lost nearly a stone in the first month and all I changed was cutting out the fizzy pop

I was totally hooked on sprite. It got very expensive. I switched to sparkling water. At first, I made a fuss. You know, chilled it, used ice and a slice of lemon to make it feel like a nice drink. It took a week or so but I got used to it.

Fizzy juice is definitely Scottish! I find the habit of drinking it can be the hardest thing to break, as I crave it at certain times of the day. My most successful method of quitting is being on holiday so out of the normal routine, this is not useful advice just now, I know....

Oh my word! That's a huge amount of sugar.

Could you drink fizzy water with cordial in?

What do you mean by fizzy juice? If it’s orange cordial and carbonated water, you could gradually dilute more abs more each time so you’re just having carbonated water.... then you could start alternating one glass normal water for every fizzy.

Also, I think having water in a nice glass with ice abs straw etc makes it feel more appealing to me.

Alternatively, if you’re drinking soda pop. (Coke pepsi 7up Dr Pepper etc...) ... I would stop calling them fizzy juice cos there ain’t any juice in those drinks! Let’s not kid ourselves it’s anywhere near that healthy!!!

I’m similar though and when it comes to pop drinks I’m better to go cold turkey as they are designed to be addictive and marketed to be habit forming.

Another one who has fizzy water mixed with a little bit of ginger cordial. I take some in a little bottle to work with me for my lunch.

I'm guessing OP is Scottish!

I had to go cold turkey on my 3-4 can a day Diet Coke habit. Can't touch the stuff now.

I have but honestly it's not a popular way. I genuinely didn't realise that I was so addicted to diet coke or anything like that until I started losing weight. But and it's a big but. I used keto and it worked marvelously, lost eight stone. One of the side effects was obviously giving up all sugar and I admit that part was brutal.

At most now I will have sparkling water maybe once a month? I will admit I feel insanely better. My energy levels do not crash anymore. I can control my eating and drinking (in the past I would feel faint and desperate for food or drink every hour or so and I wouldn't often have a diet coke thinking I was being good).

It's been life changing and I'm coming up on 2.5 years but I totally admit it's quite an extreme way of doing it. Totally worth it for me but I suspect it does suggest cold turkey is the way to go really.

Please don't get me wrong the first couple of weeks were not at all fun. But after that it was fine and after a couple of months the energy was unbelievable and I do think a lot of that was losing the (even diet) fizzy drinks.

I do feel for you, it's not bloody easy and so easy to get caught in it.

Yes, I was addicted to Pepsi Max for many years and drank 4L a day. 6 months ago I brought a soda machine and make it with lemon squash.

Game changer for me and haven't touched Pepsi since.

A friend brought me a meal deal from teacos a few weeks back - which included a bottle of Pepsi Max. It's still in the fridge.

Christ that must be expensive!! I like to have squash and sparkling water for something different other than water

You are not addicted. You are in the habit of drinking it. You will have no teeth as well as piling on weight.

Start by switching to squash and ultimately to water. Squash is also just chemical crap but it at least it's not carbonated.

Just focus on the health benefits of not drinking fizzy drinks.

Could you just not buy it anymore? If you keep it in the house you will drink it because it's there. You can't drink what you don't have...

Fizzy juice is a Scottish term. Op has clarified she means irnbru and coke, not robinsons and water.

Go cold turkey op it's the only thing that helped me