I try to avoid soda, but ginger ale is my go to. My list of goes something like:

1. Water with a shot of lemon juice
2. Black coffee
3. Alcohol

Soda is terrible for you. Diet or regular. Your overall health improves if you can give it up.

I say that as someone who use to guzzle a liter or 2 a day.

This. Replacing regular with diet is really not worth much.

The occasional Ginger Ale for me, but nothing besides that. Frankly, if you don't drink it for a while and then try again, it really doesn't taste good at all.

I say this from a position of drinking about 5 cups of coffee every day. We all have our vices....

1. Pibb Zero
2. Diet Mt Dew

I don't love diet sodas. I do LOVE caffeine. Diet sodas played a role in weight loss for me.

Two 12-ounce sodas a day per week = 1 full extra day of empty calories per week.

140 calories / can X two cans x 7 days = 1,960 calories per week

Over a year that's 51 days of extra calories

I dropped my soda intake by 50-75% and stopped eating at Chick-Fil-A 3x per week and dropped more weight faster than P90x took off me. I dropped 10% of my body weight in a 2-3 months that way without exercising.

To each his own.

Diet > exercise.

One of the things about non-diet drinks is the insane amount of sugar.

A 20oz MD has 77g!

I prefer good ole fashioned H20 and on rare occasion a Johnnie Walker Blue

Why spend that much money on a blend?

Let's do bourbon.

I am not a diet fanatic. Being a southern boy, I used to drink Coke (not diet) and sweet tea at most every meal. A few years back I read something about the horrible effects sugar has on your body, not the least of which is inflammation. I asked my doctor about it and she agreed. I gave up both Coke and sweet tea. The first month was tough, but since then I haven't missed it. I now drink nothing but water and occasionally milk (with cereal). I have never felt better. Inflammation is down, skin is sooo much better and I have dropped weight.