I hear ya. I used to drink soda all the time when I was younger, but I gained all this weight with my first job (just sitting in front of a computer, it's easy to do!). So I cut out soda and exercised a bit and lost like 30 lbs. Nowadays I still rarely drink soda by itself. In the evenings however, I mix Seagrams 7 with 7-Up Zero (essentially diet) for the same reason... the alcohol is already sweet enough that I just need the zero cal 7-up. It's an easy and tasty (to me) drink and I don't get the calories that I would with beer.