I used to drink soda and sugary fruit juices for every meal for years, up until about 5 years or so ago. I noticed that I was starting to gain weight, so I got

I used to drink soda and sugary fruit juices for every meal for years, up until about 5 years or so ago. I noticed that I was starting to gain weight, so I got rid of it all, and switched to drinking pretty much all water, with some milk and alcohol as desired. Now, I drink sugary drinks maybe like once every few weeks at most. It does feel a little weird for the first week or two, but after about a month, I was pretty used to it, and sodas taste kinda over-sugared now. My diet advice, for what it's worth - if you do nothing else, dump sugary drinks, including soda, fruit juices, energy drinks, etc in favor of water. It's pretty easy as long as you don't try to change everything else at the same time, and every school of thought on nutrition I'm aware of agrees that they're awful. It's also kinda nice to not have to carry everything you drink home from the store.