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.
I love being a seltzer guy. Hop water is pretty good too.
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.
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.
I had to stop drinking carbonated beverages and caffeinated beverages at the advice of my voice trainer - and I kicked the habit by getting some fruit juice concentrate and drinking that (diluted in water obviously) when I was craving a fizzy drink. It didn’t take long for me to stop craving them entirely, honestly. If its the fizzy part you crave, then add it to sparkling water instead. Good luck stranger.
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.
that’s disgusting dude. try soda water. fucks sake
Chat is it frowned upon to drink beverages
i don’t know if it’s frowned upon to drink that much sugary garbage every day but it should be
Its not sugary - he said Pepsi Max. And even if it was, get your judgemental ass out of here. OP literally posted this trying to get advice how to break the habit.
Its not sugary - he said Pepsi Max
ok dude. whatever you call it. fake liquid garbage
im not a judgement. its a perspective from someone who refuses to allow that shit into his house
I’m not a dude.
Drink fizzy water instead.
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I’m not a fan of fizzy water either. Plain or flavored.
Sometimes a small cold Gatorade does the trick for me.
why?
Because it’s disgusting
Doesn’t have to be! Add some flavor! I was always partial to adding a bit of pineapple juice.
wrong. fizzy water is great.
opinions are like assholes etc etc
one man’s fizzy water is another man’s treasure, or something
Whenever I see this “opinion” I think of how out of whack the person’s taste buds must be. Fizzy waters are great, they just don’t have sugar.
Not everyone likes the taste of quinine it’s super bitter bro
Tonic water has quinine. Seltzer doesn’t.
And we’re talking about fizzy water which could mean either
tonic water is further from water than vitamin water is. fizzy water means exactly 1 thing: carbonated, plain water
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“you mean everyone doesn’t have the same exact taste in things that i do!?”
Co2 mod to a used sodastream is awesome
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.
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”.
Maybe just understand what you’re doing, what the shit actually is you’re consuming and let your hate, rage and despise be your guide. Sounds like a stupid advice, but in the end it just boils down to that. Like the best way to quit smoking is…well…quitting smoking.
I managed to down a palette of red bulls in a few days. For a long time. Now I’m on green tea and plain water. Red bull was so expensive, I could easily swap it for very good white tea and still don’t loose money 😁
This is tough, because I used to be there but I kind of grew out of. I just started drinking tons of water all the time and now if when I get thirsty I just crave water.
I do drink two iced pour over coffees in the mornings though. They seem to keep me going for most the day caffeine-wise, so that’s helped a bunch too.
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.
Just stop. There are no tricks.
Do or do not.
Stop drinking fizzy drinks
It’s not cocaine
I’m cured
things can be psychologically habit forming, like biting your nails or plucking body hair
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.
