How to Stop Drinking So Many Sugary Drinks?
Question by Ich will schlank: How to stop drinking so many sugary drinks?
I’m seventeen and I’m trying to lose thirty pounds. Needless to say, my mountain dew habit needs to go. Any ideas on how I can break my “addiction”?
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Answer by Skyler
1. Make Up Your Mind. You have to make up your mind to give it up, notes Jacobson. Even if you’re just trying to cut back on your soda consumption, it can take a firm commitment to make it happen.
2.Switch to Diet Sodas. Gradually make the switch to diet sodas, suggests Paul Rozin, PhD, a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania. “Just make a small decrease at a time, like one sugared soda a day,” he says in an email interview. If you’re drinking much more than one soda a day, work toward decreasing the amount of diet sodas you drink as well — eventually.
3. Go Caffeine-Free. Popkin and Jacobson believe that caffeine, and the fact that it is mildly addictive, is part of the reason soda is such a hard habit to break. Look for caffeine-free soft drinks, and gradually decrease the number of caffeinated drinks you have each day as you work toward kicking the soda habit completely. If you’re addicted to the caffeine in soda, you’re really kicking two habits — the soda habit and the caffeine habit. “It takes a few weeks to truly forget the craving,” Popkin says.
4. Stock Up on Alternatives. Keep plenty of tasty non-soda drinks on hand to make giving up soda as convenient as possible.
~Good luck 🙂
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