Soft drinks spoil health and harm the body, try to abandon them step by step and leave this addiction that threatens your health, fitness and mood
Soft drinks are a bad health habit that spreads in our societies, as they accompany our lunch, picnics and our holidays, accompany our ready and home meals, accompany the hot summer days and hours of thirst, spread from where it seems impossible to leave them on all those occasions.
It was a wonderful decision when I was in high school where we made a collective decision to leave this bad habit with some people, it hurts health and does not satisfy the needs of thirst and happiness that it claims, it is only full of sugar, which increases the binge for her, and as a doctor, my commitment to healthy habits is part of my journey in understanding The psychology and difficulty of commitment and thus a deeper understanding of how it is described to patients. As for the steps of this decision and the way to adhere to it, I share it with you in 7 points ... I also convey to you ideas of commitment and success from other experiences I have gone through ...
Soft drinks are a bad health habit that spreads in our societies, as they accompany our lunch, picnics and our holidays, accompany our ready and home meals, accompany the hot summer days and hours of thirst, spread from where it seems impossible to leave them on all those occasions.
It was a wonderful decision when I was in high school where we made a collective decision to leave this bad habit with some people, it hurts health and does not satisfy the needs of thirst and happiness that it claims, it is only full of sugar, which increases the binge for her, and as a doctor, my commitment to healthy habits is part of my journey in understanding The psychology and difficulty of commitment and thus a deeper understanding of how it is described to patients. As for the steps of this decision and the way to adhere to it, I share it with you in 7 points ... I also convey to you ideas of commitment and success from other experiences I have gone through ...
7 steps that helped me quit soft drinks
1- The decision may be strong enough to change
I have come across a lot in my life to be a really sufficient decision for change, it may be strange, as it is difficult to imagine that the idea alone can bring about a radical, real and long-term change in our lives, it is difficult to imagine that it will suffice to produce sufficient fuel for commitment, patience and perseverance for a long period of time, from It is hard to imagine that it will be strong enough to turn one element of our life to another place completely different, but this strange thing happens, and I think it really happened to you, there is a moment when you heard advice, you hated something in yourself and made a decision at a strange moment in one day or night That you will change that to that, and then you continue it as if you took a covenant to the end.
This is what happened in my experience, a decision at the same moment that this is bad, and it was influenced by one of the wonderful people who made a decision not to drink it, and by the way it is good to have wonderful mates, so believe that you can, and that an idea flashed in your mind may be the next decision For a better life and a different life much more than you expect, and I tell you, I do not believe that a decision is sufficient to change something in our life except that I see it as success and assistance from God.
2- Replace your bad drink for a healthy one
They always tell you that if you want to get rid of something bad in your life, you must put an alternative for it and not just delete, on my journey to leave soft drinks there was no alternative drink, but in the space in which I wish to buy it only I focus on the delicious meal that I eat and sometimes more of it to make up the request On the deficient component, this feeling of inferiority lasted about one to two years.
You may use another alternative in your case, which is natural juices, and although I thought about them a lot, they did not work for me, as they have no “ease of use” (a term used in business) as easily as soft drinks, they are more difficult to prepare if you are going to prepare them, and they are more expensive if I wanted to buy them, making them not buyable, for example, daily or with all meals, and no matter how easy you try to facilitate them, soft drinks will still outperform them in these two elements: the cheaper price and ease of access.
But the alternative idea has succeeded more in me in other healthy habits that I work on, such as reducing the consumption of white sugar, as you can eat anything when you remember to buy sweets, such as eating a sandwich of anything you prefer or eating a plate of lunch that you usually eat, it works in a lot of Cases, except that it may cause increased intake sometimes as if to compensate for the feeling of deficiency.
3- The first stage is difficult
The first stage is the most difficult, it lasted about months, then according to your memory from one to two years, you will still remember buying it at some moments, and it passes by the stores that sell it, but when the decision is collective in your home or within your group, the matter will be much easier.
It may seem for a while that you will make a great effort at this stage, but not that great effort that you expect, the decision is strong, my friend, you do not know how a person feels ashamed of himself when he violates a decision he took upon himself, he feels upset and insulted, so the person always seeks the best, and it seems That position in which he violated a decision as if he took a step back in his journey for the better.
All that should be done at this stage is to escape. When you pass by the store, go quickly and remember anything else, and when in fact you are thirsty, you are looking for water or continue to thirst, so we all know that what you drink the most is water, and you know yourself, and you must You are aware of the methods of defrauding them. Taming oneself is difficult, my friend, and do not be surprised that it may require creative solutions, and you like to think about this and many methods succeed. The method of "you must force yourself" does not help much while you know this.
4- Afterwards, you will not desire it at all and will forget it
After a year or more, you will completely forget soft drinks, as if they do not exist in life at all, just as there is no baseball in your life, for example. If you do not like baseball, you will not see shops selling their equipment when you walk on the road, and you will not realize that a post or news passed in front of you. About baseball while you are surfing the Internet, this is explained when someone asks you where is such a store and then you do not know and it is near your home, but you did not care much to keep the information. During or after this stage, she'll start to hate her, you'll really hate her, she'll feel ugly.
5- The problem of friends
Here is another area of difficulty, as society and social pressure may push a person to do something he does not like and do not want, especially when the habit is rampant, it will seem strange that you are rejecting something common like this, there are some friends who will give you soft drinks as a kind of hospitality, or suggest buying it during Your meetings, or when you want to eat and other situations.
This is due to your firmness in expressing your opinion and commitment in your decisions, and I say it to you: “The less need you become to obtain approval from people for your decisions, for what you do, for what you dream, for your talents, for your abilities on who you are, the more powerful and persistent you become for what you want. , Because you will be satisfied with the authentication compared to the highest standards and noble ethics, for it is that which becomes your guide, not the people.
6- The idea of the years is beautiful
You will love the idea of having years of experience, you will feel that if something succeeds and continues, other things can succeed in your life, you will be more excited to experience change in many parts of your life, I remember here the experience of one of the women who removed white sugar from her life completely twenty years ago Where you can use naturally sweet foods such as bananas and others to add to food as a sweetener.
7- The lapses happen
In my experience there were very few lapses, as it is my eighth year that I did not actually buy it, but the lapses occurred due to some cases of social pressure where they hosted it and some other cases, but later on it is no longer ashamed to return the hospitality because it is your decision, and I wanted to convey my experience in full realism I don't want to sell you perfect, so I mentioned this item to you.
In conclusion , changing habits is a project in itself and it needs you to work on it. It needs creative ways to circumvent yourself and it needs God's help and his success to be steadfast.