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Rsn_Orange:
600 is a lot. Eat carbs and that'll give you healthier energy but you'll need to do something active like I posted above. You need to get below 80mg a day. You'll succeed. We believe in you and have your back!
Keith:
It's harder to cut out stuff completely than it is to drastically reduce your caffeine consumption. If you just try to drop it completely, you're more likely to relapse. I've found that when I want to cut something out of my diet I either reduce it to once a week/once every few days, or try to go cold turkey and then reward myself with a soda or something after i've accomplished a few weeks of success. But if you have an extremely high intake, cold turkey with a reward is probably not an option. Try reducing it to one soda or energy drink a day, replacing all of your other drinks with water. From there, come up with a replacement for the energy drinks/soda that still satisfies your urges however to a lesser degree (switching to gatorade or something). From there you can choose to eliminate it completely or just keep it at a moderated level. I've had many friends drop 20+ lbs purely from dropping soda completely from their diet. Use that as motivation. Carry a waterbottle with you.
As for exercise, you really have the whole world to choose from. Pick something that you don't completely hate and go with that. Pick-up football or basketball, go for a walk/run/swim, lifting weights can actually burn a lot of calories too if you're more interested in that (however since you'd be putting on muscle, your fat value will go down while your bodyweight might decline more slowly). If you want I can get more scientific or offer more specific suggestions, I've been doing this stuff/ researching this stuff for many years now.
Wayshow:
Jogging. I lost 20 pounds the first year of college by watching my eating a bit and running 5 times a week. As for soda, I never drank it much, but soda water helps quench the bubbly urge for me even more than soda.
jaredspurr:
i attempted quitting cold turkey i think last week and i was such a miserable person to work with someone bought me an energy drink and just restarted my wanting of it, it sucks cuz i literally hate everything and work with deep fried food, i feel like i would lose a ton if i just cut the soda/energy drinks out its all i literally drink every day unless i have a beer which isn't often, as for lifting weights id be for it if i had time for the gym. in about a week or two my hrs should be going up to around 70-80 between the two jobs both monday thru friday so no real time to get in a work out sadly. as i told orange in a pm my knees are junk from playing football back in the day. i tore my mincus and went back to football after surgery a week later (stupid move) so it literally makes walking/jogging extremely hard i do own a treadmill i am going to attempt to use that even if its while im playing xbox
Raging Mage2:
IF and Pepsi max works a treat.