How I Quit Drinking Sugary Drinks and Potentially Avoided Illness

What’s your favorite sugary drink?

Mine used to be soda and iced tea. You can drink sugary drinks from a can or a bottle but in my opinion, it’s best to drink it from a glass that’s ¼ filled with ice cubes.

Soda and iced tea goes well with pizza, fries, burger, barbeque, pasta, fried chicken, and pretty much most of my favorite foods. It was my beverage of choice for lunch and dinner. There was even a period when restaurants that offered refillable drinks heavily influenced where I was going to eat.

I used to have a supply of sugary drinks at home too. And if meal time comes and there’s no sugary drink available, I would go to the store first to buy one before eating.

I had sugary drinks together with lunch and dinner almost daily for about 10 years. I didn’t drink it from a regular glass either. I drank it from a tall-ass mug that looked more like a flower vase.

That’s how much I was addicted to it. That’s also what makes it difficult to remove sugar from my diet. Consumption of too much added sugar can lead to a myriad of chronic diseases.

So how did I quit drinking sugary drinks and save myself from potential chronic illnesses?

Diabetes ran in my family. Mom reminded me that each time she saw me drinking a soda or iced tea. My maternal grandmother and a couple of relatives died of complications from diabetes. My lifestyle put me at risk of developing diabetes later on.

I also didn’t know sugary drinks were a leading cause of weight gain and obesity. All the time, I thought consuming fatty foods makes people fat, I didn’t know that sugar played a huge part in it too. Talk about being misinformed!

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