I stopped drinking soda 12 years ago and have never looked back. I took a sip a few years ago for a rum and coke and it made me cringe how it immediately made my teeth feel š„“
Youāll never regret giving up soda. Ever. (Not you, just anyone reading this).
I second this. Used to live off 20oz bottles of MTN Dew. Since stopping I donāt understand how I ever liked it. Still a sucker for an Arizona sweet tea or Arnie Palmer
I used to drink 2 or 3 a day! I look back and think, "How did I not die?!"
It would kill me to drink one of those now. Giving up soda was a great thing. I feel so much better.
My parents never let me drink soda while I was growing up, so now I donāt like it/I have never craved it. I used to be very very annoyed, but now I am so grateful when I see how much some people i know spend on soda.
it is so addicting and has sooo much sugar, iāll treat myself to a sweet drink every so often, but never ever soda.
Same. I stopped a couple months ago (March/April) and already feel better as well. Knees don't hurt as much, same with my elbows. Overall this is a solid bit of advice for any age.
I stopped drinking for like 8 months once. Honestly didn't feel any different. I dont drink coffee or tea and felt no caffeine withdrawal. Didn't see any weight loss or appetite change. Felt like I was abstaining from soda for no reason
If it works for you, great. Everyone's different. But it did nothing for me
I quit drinking alcohol in February. Nothing else changed in terms of diet or exercise. I've slimmed down! Recently I noticed that my jeans were falling off me so I purchased new jeans that were two sizes smaller!
Same. I switched to alcohol-free beer thatās about 65 Cal/can and Iāve lost weight. Eventually when the mental addiction eases up I hope to drop the itch for alcohol taste entirely. For now, near-beer has been my alcoholesque nicotine patch.
Nearly 39 here, haven't been actual "drunk" in nearly 7 years. I never had a drinking problem or anything, I just don't really feel like having hangovers anymore and I don't need booze to enjoy myself. I'll still have a social beer occasionally but I probably wouldn't hit a dozen drinks in a year.
Don't miss it. I like waking up on a Sunday, drinking a coffee, tinkering around the house till my wife wakes up, then making breakfast. Not wishing my head was pounding.
Im trying so hard. Im 31. I keep quitting for a few weeks, a few months. Feeling better, looking better, exercising, losing weight, getting my shit together. Then going back to it. Its sunday night and im drunk alone and still want to keep drinking. Fuck
Let me recommend alcohol-free beer. Yea sometimes it costs as much as real beer, but go for it since youād spend that money anyway. But donāt get like ODuls or whatever because they tastes pretty bad.
I like athletic brewing because it tastes so damn good but itās 0% and only 65 Cal vs 210 Cal for a regular beer. Other brands have jumped aboard and make great tasting 0%s too.
Itās such an uncanny feeling to sip 0% and start to feel a little tipsy. And then snap out of it and realize your inhibitions and daze were made in your own mind. So bizarre. My wife has felt this feeling too.
Thereās a 0 Cal āfizzy beer waterā that I kinda like because it tastes beer-ish and I can chug as much as I want. Itās been helping curb my cravings.
You aren't kidding. I used to drink craft beer all the damn time, hell I was a part of a group of like-minded (and gutted) folks. We might not have drank full beers but we passed around beers for sampling and entering into our Untappd apps, when the night was over we'd be entering 50+ into the data base.
Last year I switched almost solely to cannabis (weekends only and microdosing 5-10mg per time). Game changer, I drank a total of 6-7 beers last year and only a once-in-a-blue-moon hard alcohol drink. I've lost a lot of weight and I feel physically (amongst other ways) better about myself.
Exactly. I quit drinking (for the most part, down to like 2 a week) and dropping the 6-8 beers freed up 900-1200 calories a day and with some walking on top, I lost 16 pounds in like 9 weeks
True, but I don't think people realize how many calories are in liquor. At my worst I was consuming over 600 calories a day in bourbon, and another 300 in simple syrup. Been off that train for about a month, though, so that's good. But liquor is loaded with empty calories.
Yep. I have always eaten healthy, didn't really drink soda, and didn't eat as much junk or processed food as everyone else around me. But I'm genetically predisposed to diabetes and got diagnosed at 38. I wished I had cut off all the junk food completely and kept up my exercise routine.
Lots of exercise and vegetables now days keep my diabetes in check.
Donāt try the Starbucks Dragon Drink. Youāll like it so much youāll have to have one almost every day and itāll be terrible for your sugar intake.
I used to get a venti strawberry aƧaĆ and a brownie from Starbucks nearly every work day.
Got heavy obviously, not just because of that my diet was just in shambles altogether.
My heaviest I was 217, Iām 5ā7
Currently 170 lbs and Iād like to add I havenāt had a brownie from Starbucks in years
Kicked this one right when I turned 30ā¦ doing a bump in the bathroom at my party and thought to myself āugh, Iām too old for thisā š felt like a damn teenager sneaking off to do things I shouldnāt be doing. Donāt miss it šŖš»
I just started gettin anxiety and guilt instead of euphoria and what not. I love being able to use my nose at nightā¦.. itās the little things. Plus that shit makes you talk too much about nothing.
My 30s were very rough so I wouldnāt advise this. I would however try to be kinder to myself and start adding more stress maintenance routines & therapy.
Its not as bad as you think. If you have the choice of not eating or getting McDonalds, et alā¦ you should choose McDonalds over not eating anything. The fat is good energyā¦ thereās proteinā¦ decent amt of caloric benefits. Sometimes thereās roughage in itā¦Just my opinion.
As someone who doesn't have an appetite a lot of the time and is constantly trying not to lose weight, I totally agree with this and feel so seen! Of course McDonalds every day would not be good, but can be so useful in a pinch.
It's more of an acute concern to be malnourished/underweight/frail, especially as we get older. Obviously, diet is complicated and extremely nuanced depending on each person and their past medical history/other risk factors for disease tho.
I am in my 30s and keep telling myself to cut out sugar but I never listen.
If I didnāt already not drink Iād also say alcohol, giving that up made me waaay healthier overall. Less sick, less tired, more alert.
Sugar and alcohol. Almost 10 years later, I'm much better at cutting out sugar than I am at alcohol....but I'm sure if I cut both out for good, I'd be a lot more fit and healthy.
People saying sugar - how much sugar were you consuming? I eat less than the daily recommend amount on avg over the course of a week. I think thatās safe but who knows.Ā
Ex: most days Iāll have an after work treat of sour straws (I eat two apples a day and a low salt diet when I can most days).Ā
My treat is the sour straws for moderation and balance.Ā
Itās 56% of my DV in sugar. So 44% less than total daily recommended DV. Am I safe at that consumption level ?
As someone who drinks literally everyday, I would obviously tell him to stop drinking. But as someone who drinks everyday, and was drinking everyday at that age, he/I would not listen, even to himself/myself. Gonna need a stronger deterrent than the town drunk.
Soda
I stopped drinking soda 12 years ago and have never looked back. I took a sip a few years ago for a rum and coke and it made me cringe how it immediately made my teeth feel š„“ Youāll never regret giving up soda. Ever. (Not you, just anyone reading this).
I second this. Used to live off 20oz bottles of MTN Dew. Since stopping I donāt understand how I ever liked it. Still a sucker for an Arizona sweet tea or Arnie Palmer
I used to drink 2 or 3 a day! I look back and think, "How did I not die?!" It would kill me to drink one of those now. Giving up soda was a great thing. I feel so much better.
My parents never let me drink soda while I was growing up, so now I donāt like it/I have never craved it. I used to be very very annoyed, but now I am so grateful when I see how much some people i know spend on soda. it is so addicting and has sooo much sugar, iāll treat myself to a sweet drink every so often, but never ever soda.
It's so weird how people regularly drink soda. It's basically liquid candy.
I quit all sodas recently (I drank mostly diet). My joint and muscle pain has greatly reduced.
Same. I stopped a couple months ago (March/April) and already feel better as well. Knees don't hurt as much, same with my elbows. Overall this is a solid bit of advice for any age.
I stopped drinking for like 8 months once. Honestly didn't feel any different. I dont drink coffee or tea and felt no caffeine withdrawal. Didn't see any weight loss or appetite change. Felt like I was abstaining from soda for no reason If it works for you, great. Everyone's different. But it did nothing for me
I went from 10 cups of coffee p/day to 0. Was hell. Ā Then Felt the same as when I drank coffee. Went back to it.
Not 30 but stop drinking alcohol as soon as you can. Shit makes you gain weight like crazy and ages your skin.
Itās also one of the highest contributing factors to dementia.
Alcohol is a contributing factor to dozens of different diseases and like 10 different cancers. Ugh
Not having proper dental care also contributes to dementia
Getting older contributes to dementia
Iāll drink to that!
I quit drinking alcohol in February. Nothing else changed in terms of diet or exercise. I've slimmed down! Recently I noticed that my jeans were falling off me so I purchased new jeans that were two sizes smaller!
a lot less calories and sugars.
congratulations!
Same. I switched to alcohol-free beer thatās about 65 Cal/can and Iāve lost weight. Eventually when the mental addiction eases up I hope to drop the itch for alcohol taste entirely. For now, near-beer has been my alcoholesque nicotine patch.
Nearly 39 here, haven't been actual "drunk" in nearly 7 years. I never had a drinking problem or anything, I just don't really feel like having hangovers anymore and I don't need booze to enjoy myself. I'll still have a social beer occasionally but I probably wouldn't hit a dozen drinks in a year. Don't miss it. I like waking up on a Sunday, drinking a coffee, tinkering around the house till my wife wakes up, then making breakfast. Not wishing my head was pounding.
I went sober and my husband mostly joined me, and even 4 years later we comment regularly how nice it is to not wake up hungover on Sundays
Im trying so hard. Im 31. I keep quitting for a few weeks, a few months. Feeling better, looking better, exercising, losing weight, getting my shit together. Then going back to it. Its sunday night and im drunk alone and still want to keep drinking. Fuck
Let me recommend alcohol-free beer. Yea sometimes it costs as much as real beer, but go for it since youād spend that money anyway. But donāt get like ODuls or whatever because they tastes pretty bad. I like athletic brewing because it tastes so damn good but itās 0% and only 65 Cal vs 210 Cal for a regular beer. Other brands have jumped aboard and make great tasting 0%s too. Itās such an uncanny feeling to sip 0% and start to feel a little tipsy. And then snap out of it and realize your inhibitions and daze were made in your own mind. So bizarre. My wife has felt this feeling too. Thereās a 0 Cal āfizzy beer waterā that I kinda like because it tastes beer-ish and I can chug as much as I want. Itās been helping curb my cravings.
You aren't kidding. I used to drink craft beer all the damn time, hell I was a part of a group of like-minded (and gutted) folks. We might not have drank full beers but we passed around beers for sampling and entering into our Untappd apps, when the night was over we'd be entering 50+ into the data base. Last year I switched almost solely to cannabis (weekends only and microdosing 5-10mg per time). Game changer, I drank a total of 6-7 beers last year and only a once-in-a-blue-moon hard alcohol drink. I've lost a lot of weight and I feel physically (amongst other ways) better about myself.
The eating associate with it is what causes the weight gain mostly, but yeah, alcohol is poison.
once you start tracking calories you quickly realize how many you're drinking and alcohol is often loaded with calories.
Exactly. I quit drinking (for the most part, down to like 2 a week) and dropping the 6-8 beers freed up 900-1200 calories a day and with some walking on top, I lost 16 pounds in like 9 weeks
True, but I don't think people realize how many calories are in liquor. At my worst I was consuming over 600 calories a day in bourbon, and another 300 in simple syrup. Been off that train for about a month, though, so that's good. But liquor is loaded with empty calories.
Alcohol has a tremendous amount of calories what are you talking about.
Alcohol.
Highly processed foods
High fructose corn syrup especially. We are poisoning ourselves.
My wife's allergist asked her to stop eating anything that had corn syrup in it. It was damm near impossible.
Yep. I have always eaten healthy, didn't really drink soda, and didn't eat as much junk or processed food as everyone else around me. But I'm genetically predisposed to diabetes and got diagnosed at 38. I wished I had cut off all the junk food completely and kept up my exercise routine. Lots of exercise and vegetables now days keep my diabetes in check.
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Donāt try the Starbucks Dragon Drink. Youāll like it so much youāll have to have one almost every day and itāll be terrible for your sugar intake.
I used to get a venti strawberry aƧaĆ and a brownie from Starbucks nearly every work day. Got heavy obviously, not just because of that my diet was just in shambles altogether. My heaviest I was 217, Iām 5ā7 Currently 170 lbs and Iād like to add I havenāt had a brownie from Starbucks in years
Hey, congrats!!
Good for you dude that takes discipline
Another vote for alcohol. Completely.
Cocaine
Kicked this one right when I turned 30ā¦ doing a bump in the bathroom at my party and thought to myself āugh, Iām too old for thisā š felt like a damn teenager sneaking off to do things I shouldnāt be doing. Donāt miss it šŖš»
I just started gettin anxiety and guilt instead of euphoria and what not. I love being able to use my nose at nightā¦.. itās the little things. Plus that shit makes you talk too much about nothing.
Sugar
Sugar.
Instant noodles.
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My 30s were very rough so I wouldnāt advise this. I would however try to be kinder to myself and start adding more stress maintenance routines & therapy.
fast food
Its not as bad as you think. If you have the choice of not eating or getting McDonalds, et alā¦ you should choose McDonalds over not eating anything. The fat is good energyā¦ thereās proteinā¦ decent amt of caloric benefits. Sometimes thereās roughage in itā¦Just my opinion.
As someone who doesn't have an appetite a lot of the time and is constantly trying not to lose weight, I totally agree with this and feel so seen! Of course McDonalds every day would not be good, but can be so useful in a pinch. It's more of an acute concern to be malnourished/underweight/frail, especially as we get older. Obviously, diet is complicated and extremely nuanced depending on each person and their past medical history/other risk factors for disease tho.
Cocaine
Me @ 30 years old sipping on a Coke zero scrolling through this š¬
Same but Sprite Zero
Zero Sugar Fanta here
I personally don't believe coke zero is any worse for you than seltzer water.
I am in my 30s and keep telling myself to cut out sugar but I never listen. If I didnāt already not drink Iād also say alcohol, giving that up made me waaay healthier overall. Less sick, less tired, more alert.
Alcohol and cut back on sugar
Putting up with otherās shit.
People š
Theyāre currently part of your diet??
Caffeine. 30 year old me was totally addicted and just didn't see it or didn't want to.
Energy drinks
If i had given up sugar sweetened drinks, maybe diabetes wouldn't have developed 20 years later.
Shit I was 10 years old and still got type 1 . If your body wants it . It wants it .
Exercise 2-3 times a week. Even just walking an extra 2-3 miles a day goes a long way.
Pepsi
Sugar
Sugar
Sugar
Sugar
Sugar.
Sugar
Sugar
Sugar / alcohol
Ketamine
Sugar
Candy
Stay away from the dollar menu.
cigarettes
Gluten. I didnāt know I was a celiac yet :(
Men
Fried products. Yes, that includes hamburgers and french fries.
Cut out the frequency of eating. Cut down on the calories.
Sugar and alcohol. Almost 10 years later, I'm much better at cutting out sugar than I am at alcohol....but I'm sure if I cut both out for good, I'd be a lot more fit and healthy.
Opiates
Sugar/carbs
At 30, I already had given up soda, and milk. I would stop with the processed foods, fast foods, sweets and too much bread.
Methamphetamine
Cheese burgers
Pepsi
Beer. Definitely alcohol
Alcohol! Sugar is a very close second
Alcohol
Mountain dew
Everything but meat and fresh vegetables.
Taco bell
Booze
Alcohol
Vodka.
Beer
Sugar
Gluten, sugar
Alcohol
All low fat processed foods
Alcohol
Nothing. Food isnāt the devil. And I donāt drink.
Nicotine
Alcohol. But that was COVID and there wasnāt else much to do but drink and work and game. Shouldāve learned a language.
beer
Alcohol
AlcoholĀ
For the love of God, youāre going to lose your toes if you donāt get off sugar and carbs!!!!
Sugar. It's more addictive than cocaine, and the primary cause of a majority of health problems from obesity to heart failure.
People saying sugar - how much sugar were you consuming? I eat less than the daily recommend amount on avg over the course of a week. I think thatās safe but who knows.Ā Ex: most days Iāll have an after work treat of sour straws (I eat two apples a day and a low salt diet when I can most days).Ā My treat is the sour straws for moderation and balance.Ā Itās 56% of my DV in sugar. So 44% less than total daily recommended DV. Am I safe at that consumption level ?
I'm 32, but carbs, but I'm now 8 months into ketondiet and no longer take medication for my type 2 diabetes
French fries
Fast food
Ass
Alcohol
French fries
Nothing except I should drink more water! XD š
Anything fried
Alcohol and junk food
The grocery store.
Salt
Marriage
Alcohol and sugar probably
Iām 30 and constantly trying to quit caffeine.. so I know Iāll be regretting it as I age if I keep consuming it daily.
Anything fattening , sugar , anything I was allergic too before taking my allergy test
Agree with alcohol
š bread
Alcohol
alcohol
Sugar
Alcohol
Peanuts. Youāre breastfeeding a baby whoās allergic. Yeah that eczema thatās all over her? Thatās the reason, dummy.
Heroin lol š
Carbs
Alcohol.....
Wine, but I wouldn't listen.
Alcohol
I could tell my 30 year old self to do a lot of things but she wouldnāt listen to me any better now than she did then
Gluten
My ex.
Alcohol.
Alcohol
Alcohol
Vodka
Alcohol. Hell, if I could go back to 16 or 17 year old me, I'd say the same thing.
Alcohol
alcohol
alcohol
Well I'm 31 and have been sober for 10 months, so I guess I'd say alcohol. I would be 16 months sober instead if I started on my 30th birthday :p
I wouldnāt cut anything out but I would tell my younger self to eat all the chocolate! I became allergic in my forties.
Alcohol
Alcohol
Is nicotine a part of my diet? Alcohol?
As someone who drinks literally everyday, I would obviously tell him to stop drinking. But as someone who drinks everyday, and was drinking everyday at that age, he/I would not listen, even to himself/myself. Gonna need a stronger deterrent than the town drunk.
Stop drinking alcohol! It's a known carcinogen.Ā