How to break soda addiction

There’s no doubt about it, kicking a soda habit can be pretty difficult for some people. For most of us though we don’t drink liter upon liter of soda every day. But, giant Big Gulps and super-sized fast food sodas mean we’re drinking more than ever.

• Take baby steps. If you drink four sodas per day, replace two with an alternative today.
• Make alternatives slowly. Start with diet soda, then switch to flavored water.
• Once you’ve gotten comfortable with this routine, replace your other sodas with an alternative.
• Still alive? Great! Now switch those diet sodas or flavored water to plain water. Don’t like plain water? Try adding fresh fruit to them.
• Experiment with other beverages like teas, milk, soy milk, and seltzer - the goal here is to hydrate mostly with plain water.
• Don’t keep soda in the house. Make it a treat to be enjoyed now and then