Soda is bad for you. But if you have trouble ditching it completely, you can take a step up and become a soda snob: "I don't always drink soda, but the once in six months I can afford it, I drink the one made with hand-harvested beet sugar and little gold flakes in it..." And if that's what it takes to go from a coke every day to a soda as an occasional treat-- win!
Back when I was first making the transition to low-carb, I did this with a lot of things. I knew I needed to cut out ice cream, but the thought of never eating ice cream again was too much. So first, I became an ice-cream snob. Grocery-store ice cream was not good enough. I would only eat ice-cream if it was locally-made gelato, and I actually walked out to the shop with friends and had ice cream there in the ice-cream shop. Never at home, never alone. I of course have far too much culture and taste for that sort of thing ;)
Now of course I don't even look at the stuff. The intermediary step was useful though. And if I was not diabetic, but just trying to clean up my diet, could've stayed there forever.
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Date: 2024-02-15 10:21 pm (UTC)Back when I was first making the transition to low-carb, I did this with a lot of things. I knew I needed to cut out ice cream, but the thought of never eating ice cream again was too much. So first, I became an ice-cream snob. Grocery-store ice cream was not good enough. I would only eat ice-cream if it was locally-made gelato, and I actually walked out to the shop with friends and had ice cream there in the ice-cream shop. Never at home, never alone. I of course have far too much culture and taste for that sort of thing ;)
Now of course I don't even look at the stuff. The intermediary step was useful though. And if I was not diabetic, but just trying to clean up my diet, could've stayed there forever.