Do you drink a lot of soda even though you know it’s bad for your body, There might be a solution to it.

Habits and addictions are two things that people have very little self control on it. These two things could be good or bad depending on whether they serve us or not.

If you being doing research on how to stop drinking soda, this post might give you an aha moment.

No self control? That’s ok

The problem is not soda, the problem is not that you have an addition, and the problem is not that you have a habit.

Every single adult human being on this planet has habits and additions. There is very little that they can do about it.

Trying to consciously fight against habits and additions, is like holding your breath. You might be able to hold your breath for a while but eventually you are going to have to breathe.

Therefore, if you have being drinking soda, thinking that you can consciously stop drinking soda is a foolish errand.

Just in case is not clear enough, think for a moment.

Developing the drinking soda habit or addition, was it hard or easy?

It was easy!

You know what’s hard?

Trying to consciously stop something that you do subconsciously.

Solution

We ought to be consciously doing beneficial things for a simple reason.

If you do something that is beneficial to you, there is a chance that you become addicted to it. There is a chance that it becomes a habit.

Having a beneficial habit is like wining the lottery. It could help you for a lifetime.

Instead of trying to stop drinking soda, it better to just start drinking more water.

Instead of trying to lose weight, is better to do a physical activity that you enjoy.

But what if I really want to stop the bad habit?

How to explained this?

Ok the fact that you are focusing on stopping the bad habit is directing your energy and focus toward the bad habit.

Is like saying I don’t want feel sad, then you go and watch a sad movie that make you feel sad.

Interrupt the bad pattern

You might want to interrupt the bad pattern.

A habit is a multitude of connection that you body created. It’s like a roadmap. Your habits can happens without you being conscious about it.

If the habit that you have is bad, you might be able to break it by doing something different.

Example

You just bought a 12 pack of soda and put it in the refrigerator.

If someone were to ask you to pour them down the sink that will be helpful but most addicted people won’t do it.

It’s call an addition for a reason.

But what if you take one of these 12 can of soda and pour it down the sink drain. See how it feels.

You might not feel much resistance since you know that you still have 11 soda can left.

At first hand , this may not look like much.

But if you did that you just took a big step toward replacing drinking soda.

By pouring the soda can down the drain, you just created a new connection on your brain that was not there before.

It’s also symbolic. It shows that you have the power to throw away one can of soda.

Try one more and see how does it feel. You still have 10 left.

Doing something different will help break the pattern of the bad habit.

Because in the end, it’s just a habit.

If you have the habit of drinking soda, you also have patterns that you follow, there is a connection somewhere in your brain that remember that route.

Break the pattern by doing something different and your brain will think like what he hell is going on.

You might start having thought that you have never had before.

Like what’s more important to you, your health or the soda?

Obviously your health.

Thoughts

If you start doing beneficial things, there is chance that some of these beneficial things will become a habit or you’ll become addicted to some of them.

Addiction and habits are great as long as their are beneficial.

Eventually, some of these beneficial habits will replace the not beneficial ones.

That’s it.

Take a calculated risk.

Now, start and adjust as you go.