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I drink MD ALL the time and I can't stop it. Its like im addicted to it!!!!
If im not drinking milk or OJ, im drinking mountain dew nonstop, I'm a fairly healthy guy, I exercise every other day and I rarely get sick, but I'm concerned that me only drinking Mountain Dew isn't good for my health in the long run.
What should I do and is this normal?
Same problem here, but I'm just going to warn you, drinking soda all the time is NOT good. Trust me, I've done it for years, and it's basically rotten most of my teeth,
and it's probably damaged my liver/kindeys.
Most people could just say, " Why don't you just stop drinking it all the time?"
Well, I would like to, but that's why it's called an addiction, you CAN'T just up and stop. It's torment.
Imagine saying that to someone who was addicted to cigarettes, or alcohol.
Sad, but true.
You may be addicted to caffeine, but you aren't addicted to Mountain Dew. Just slowly begun cutting back on how much you drink to slowly wean yourself off caffeine. Mix up what you drink as well. Mountain Dew is one of the highest caffeinated sodas on the market.
True, much as caffeine is. What I'm getting at is Mountain Dew is a delivery system for what's actually addictive. Moving to lesser things to begin to wean off of them could be helpful. I would switch to coffee or tea at first and slow down my intake of Mountain Dew.
It's possible that the OP has a strong association between the taste of Mountain Dew with the caffeine and sugar hit that they're biologically addicted to. That might prevent them from getting the same satisfaction from other drinks, even ones that have a similar levels of the substances they're biologically addicted to. Although I agree, reducing the dose gradually is the best thing to do. If they can't switch to other drunks they could try diluting the Mountain Dew, although that could turn out gross.
I think I've been trying to cut down on it by drinking coffee or hot chocolate over Mountain Dew.
I am not sure if that's really doing much good, but then again, I do believe coffee and hot chocolate are a bit more 'heathly' than soda.
My only thought is you are used to something cold. Try iced tea at first. It's not much better but is a step better then soda. There are some iced teas that are pretty fantastic and are unsweetened. You still get your caffeine fix with none or the nasty stuff in soda.
Drink diet double dew, it has half the caffeine and sugar as regular double mountain dew.
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freeze bottles of water 4 hot days. always have a bottle near that would help