Plain seltzer water: gives your stomach that fizziness of the soda - which is good for settling your stomach when under stress - but none of the sugar. And eat apples.

yum, fizzy mineral water. having some as we speak!

chocolate covered espresso beans rock!

apples actually, can be a good substitute

yeah.... it's the fizz that is really addicting...haha.... apples sound good...havent really had a good apple in a while..... luckily my office (coffee house i take a table at) is vegetarian and has good food.....

chocolate...hmmmm..... allergies...

what if i need that caffeine kick..... reason for the beans......

i'm trying to stay away from all the b.s. energy drinks/etc.....

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apples are good for energy. organic, get the crisp kind like fuji or braeburn

wait. i missed something. what's wrong with coffee?

i drink coffee too. just not everyday.

Green tea for caffeine.

i fill my cup twice a day, which is about at the '5' mark on my coffee maker. finished with my coffee by 8:00 and then it's water the rest of the day.

and laffy taffy.

what does laffy taffy do? does that contribute? ;)

i have to keep up my sugar levels. it's all very timed/strategic. if the situation gets desperate, it's nothing that the ghirardelli in the bottom right drawer can't fix.

Steven, we practically lived together for three weeks and I didn't know you like laffy taffy?!? How can that be!!

it started at halloween. long sordid story, having something to do with job satisfaction.

I agree w/tk - chocolate covered espresso beans are a great substitute! You could also try seltzer water -something like Perrier or a store brand – the bubbles seems to satisfy the "soda" craving and the best thing is that it has no calories, sodium or caffeine. I drink it all the time.

bubbly water makes me more thirsty. what's up with that?

Sorry lb et al - so thats what I get for not reading all the responses before suggesting soda/seltzer water. So, yah, dido:)

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bubbly water goes well with laffy taffy...:)

What heck does chewing coffee beans do to the color of your teeth?

I cut out caffeine in almost every way possible. No more coffee. It's 100% fruit juice in the morning. Water during the day and soy milk at dinner. I have more energy than I did on the crunk juice.

that's just crazy talk.

I once cut out coffee altogether.
After two and a half weeks of headaches, I figured I'd take the health detriments of coffee over the headaches of withdrawal, and got back to my addiction.
It's my only one (addition), so I'm OK with it, now.

Coffee is actually quite good for you. They just had an extensive article of its bennefits in Mens Health(?). It's the cream and sugar that send you to your grave.

see, i actually heard that if coffee is the primary vehicle for your dairy (cream) then that's a good thing.

Skim milk maybe?

it would be alot cheaper for me to buy some coffee beans then keep purchasing my large iced mocha everyday........ hott coffee/tea/etc puts me asleep......... could resort to apple juice.......

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I don't drink soda either, but I don't like plain seltzer all the time.

So I mix seltzer/club soda with fruit juice. Or sometimes I drink sparkling juices like Martinelli's, Fizzy Lizzy, Izze, etc.

If you mix unsweetened 100% cranberry juice with seltzer and add Stevia powder, it is very sweet and without many calories/sugar, but has no artifical sweetener either.

want to quit the soda addiction, substitute with diet snapple teas. saved me from interminable headaches, and feeling like shiite everyday.

after I fasted, I learned I had 100% control over addictions like coffee. I only drink it because I like it now. Never cream and sugar, which I get made fun A LOT for, not sure why, must be a midwestern/rural thing.

Fasting in general gave me more awareness of what things do to my body.

I am afraid of any drink that is 'Diet'. It has nothing in it, no calories, no sugar and no sodium. But clearly it has something in it, it has a color and tastes kinda like a soda. Whats in there? Sounds like something only an astronaut would drink. Mmmmmm....science tastes good.

strawbeary, what exact fasting regimen did you follow? did it purge or whatever like it was supposed to?

a lot of people i know do that when they come back from jungle countries.

I'm with you, cpnorris: stay away from things like aspartame, Splenda, whatever: they cannot be good for you. So anything diet is out.

I kicked coffee when I was pregnant and breastfeeding, and it was easy - being pregnant makes certain health things ridiculously easy, in my experience. My husband was so proud that I had kicked my addiction and said "Won't it be great to not have that addiction anymore? To which I replied that the moment our son stopped breastfeeding, I was ordering a triple shot iced espresso.

I love coffee, I love my coffee habit.

But do stay away from those scary diet drinks.

As I reach for my triple-filtered free-range no-kill no-cal water substitute, I'm reflecting upon that other thread, where the theme was 'how much crap can you smoke?', while over here we're all so "dare I eat a peach" and all...

yes, diet soda is work of the devil.

myriam, yes I did one of those cleanses and wouldn't trade it for anything, it was well worth it. i will do it again about the first of Feb. it was the mastercleanse, sometimes called the lemonade cleanse.

i haven't eaten any high fructose corn syrup since. ever look to see what they try to stick that stuff into? most everything.

my friend did the lemon diet for a month...fuckn crazy... he lost about 100 pounds...but gained it right back.......

i'm not addicted to coffee but need that pick me up when i'm working on the puter for 12 hours a day...

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I lost about 9 pounds, gained 3 back. I did it for 7 days.

Married to a Brazilian....well I have to drink Coffee....or she will kill me! It supports the GNP in Brazil. I did read a depressing article about a week ago regarding the supply of Coffee for the next two years....seems Like the Coffee Farmers had a real bad year...so prices will be climbing...so Invest in Starbucks....cause it will be their chance to perform like the Oil Companies.....and make mega bucks.

i look at this way; sugar kills, and kills absolutely. that i know and try to limit my intake of carbs and sugar. the other stuff will probably kill me, but i don't know absolutely, and it has zer0 carbs and no sugar. my thinking is that i am nearly 1/2 through the life i have, and if in 20 or 30 years i develop a third nipple, an orbiting third eye, or a hairy tongue i can say that at least in the first 2/3 of my life i lived pretty well.

you might have an orbiting third eye if you are a male.......

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the movement of the ass and/or death can contribute. What is far worse than consuming high fructose corn carbonated product is living 10 years. Much easier to just consume the soda . . .

not that i would but maybe you should....http://www.drinkcocaine.com/mainindex.php

Hmmm.. cocaine in "soft" drinks. Now that's a first.

actually, cocaine in softdrinks is old skool.

Coffee is your magical friend. drink it, drink it all the time.