Help. I have a serious addiction to Diet Soda...?

Question

This is so embarrassing for me and I feel terrible about the whole thing but I think it's gotten to the point where I need serious help on this whole issue.

I've always liked pop but years ago I started working out pretty hard and to keep from taking in all those calories of regular pop I started drinking the diet kind. I know that aspartame is not supposed to be good for you.

I started drinking more and more until now I drink something like 2 or 2.5 liters a day. If I stop I seem to get headaches and I'm always craving it. Am I the only one who has ever had this problem? I feel so dumb because other people get addicted to things like alcohol but that is SUPPOSED to be addicting. What can I do to help myself stop?!?

Answer 1

Well this might be a bit humiliating in someones point of view but I would go see a therapist but if that doesn't work I know someone in Government and I will try to get them making a soda addiction gum. :P

It was my idea for Nicorette

Answer 2

Just try and reduce your intake of diet soda, until you are no longer drinking it anymore

Answer 3

You can understand this:

For nearly a year, my wife had a movement disorder in which her head shook continuously 24/7. We spent thousands of dollars trying to find out what was wrong. No luck until one of my kids discovered a website that disclosed info about a diet-soda ingredient called aspartame.

Aspartame, when it reaches temps above 85F begins to break down into lethal compounds, the worst of which is ARSENIC! Arsenic poisoning takes many forms, and mimics many chronic diseases, and many times before they can figure it out, they're doing an autopsy. My wife always had a diet soda in her hand. Two weeks after she quit, she was fine. For more information, Google "aspartame." See for yourself.

PS: most sodas reach these temps when being transported in tractor trailer trucks from the bottling centers to stores.

Answer 4

try easing ur way off diet soda by drinking a cup of water instead of a can of soda. then try drinking 2 glasses of water for 2 cans of soda and so on! hope it will help!

Answer 5

its ok as long as its diet!!

Answer 6

Sounds like you are addicted to the caffeine in the soda. Here's my suggestion. Buy a 12-pack (or case... whatever) of the kind you normally drink and the same amount in the caffeine free version. Start out by mixing equal portions of the soda together in a glass when you go to drink some. Each day make the portions more of the decaffeinated version. If you start to get a headache, increase the amount of caffeinated soda A LITTLE for a day or two, then continue to decrease as you were doing before. What you are doing is weaning your body off the caffeine. By the end of the month, you should be completely weaned off the caffeine. You can then work on going off the decaffeinated soda, which should be much easier at that point.

Good luck.

Answer 7

just make sure there is no diet soda near youor where ever you are going. dont bring more money than what you need so you cant buy it.  

Answer 8

I honestly think you're over-worrying about a problem that doesn't exist.  Aspartame has been tested by both government and private labs over and over again, and in the quantity that you're ingesting it there should be no ill effects at all.  However, that being said, it's possible that you're suffering from CAFFEINE withdrawal when you stop drinking the diet soda.  My suggestion is to slowly taper yourself from the soda with caffeine and eventually switch over to something like Diet and Caffeine Free Coke (or the like).

Answer 9

The same way you quit drinking regular soda. Get disgusted by it, then find something to replace it. Diet soda is syrup, it's thin like water, but it's still about as gross as drinking a bottle of thick maple syrup. It's just nasty. Juice is delicious.