Do you want to stop or cut down on soft drinks? With this step-by-step plan you will succeed within 4 weeks.
Why should you stop drinking soda?
1. When you're watching your diet, it's a shame to get some of your calories from soda instead of nutritious foods.
2. Most soft drinks contain a lot of sugar. Do you want to cut back on sugar? Then it is a good move to leave soft drinks behind.
3. An addition to the first two reasons. soft drinks are not good for your health and also bad for your teeth.
Steps to quit
Week 1
Do you really drink a lot of soda? Then it can be difficult to quit cold turkey. You don't want to fall back on your old habits. Therefore, try to cut down first or possibly switch to diet soda.
Additional tip: Make sure you eat enough products with L-glutamine, which is a substance that ensures that you have less appetite for sugar. You get L-glutamine in, among other things, by eating eggs, beans and fish.
Week 2
Drink only soft drinks that do not contain caffeine and preferably no sugar this week. In addition, try to decrease further.
Additional tip: Some people get headaches. Make sure you get enough vitamin B, which can be found in spinach, among other things.
Week 3
Drink half as much soft drink as in week 2. You can do that by only drinking soft drink at the 'important' moment, for example in the evening in front of the TV or by drinking half a glass.
Week 4
Time to ditch all the soda. Think about what it does for you:do you feel better or more energetic? These may be reasons to persevere, or at least to cut down considerably compared to how much soft drink you used to drink.
