Addicted to Coke

[jofeb04]

cola coke anyway!!

I know it is really bad for my health, but if i try to stop drinking it, I get headaches, feel sick etc. I think its the caffene (sp?). I started drinkingcokewhen i cut down on the amount of coffee I was drinking.

What is the best way to cut down on it? Is it worth cutting down all together or slowing down iykwim.

Thanks

Oh god me too!!!
I am totally addicted!! I hate diet coke...but have started drinking diet cherry which is quite nice.
Its all I drink really! Thought I'd better cut down on the sugar intake!
I think it must be the caffeine as I get withdrawal symptoms too (god that sounds grim doesn't it!!)

Good to see I'm not the only one!!

I started the same thread as you a few months ago...there are actually loads of coke a holics

Hi jo! I do so loooove coke. I try to limit myself to just a couple per week but now that I'm on maternity leave I can tell it's much harder. I wander into the kitchen and think Oh, a coke with lots of ice sure would be good right now...and there I go again.

Hiya JW,
I wrote a Xmas card for ya, after all the help you give me with my ptsd etc, havent posted it yet though, so don't know if it will get to you on time!!

I'm on a couple every single day, we can buy a pack of 24cans of coke, gone within a week!!

Right girls how can I put this...........????

I used it to clean my toilet last week and it came up a treat.

No problem I'm impressed that anyone with 2 kids gets cards done at all. None for us this year I'm afraid, although no baby blues, etc so far.

My friends addicted to coke, shes also been told by the doctor shes morbidlly obese
I told her dd, that its good for cleaning toliets and not much else.

I am addicted to coke too, diet coke though, I don't like the non diet coke as I find it too sweet.
It's the mixing my coke with Bacardi that I need to cut down on though!

So our insides are squeaky clean?

I used to be addicted to coke as a student. Had one for breakfast every day for years and years!

Went off when I was pregnant (and tea/coffee) and have never looked back.

If you go cold turkey, you'll need to find a substitute like herbal tea or sparkling water for when you crave it.

I find that if I have a coke or tea/coffee with caffeine in it now, it makes me feel hyper for ages!

We used to drink a 6 pack per day, but we were told the effects on teeth etc so dh now drinks diluted and I have moved onto vimto.

Trying to cut them both out though. I used to be addicted to polos, now THAT was weird. Had to cut down to half a one

Me too - but I've weaned myself onto the caffine free stuff which I guess is a bit better. Had a week of feeling awful after giving up the caffine, but feel betetr now.

But still can't give up the caffine free stuff. Its all I drink - no exaggeration. Breakfast, lunch and tea.

I drank loads of coke, and know all about the withdrawal symptoms!!, but I read in the Times a couple of weeks ago that just four cans a week increases bone loss, its only coke that does it , not lemonade or anything else, its apparently the phosphorus in it that sparks a reaction. It shocked me into stopping cold turkey. read this it stopped me!!