This!
The only time I’ve ever managed to drink maybe half a glass of Pepsi or rootbeer is out of sheeer desperation - I was dying of thirst and there was absolutely no other beverage available.
Old fashioned Coke in bottles was bearable, though - I still didn’t ever choosee to drink it, but carbonation-wise it was more tolerable. Still way too sweet, though. I don’t like sweet drinks. Black coffee and dry red wine for me, please.
One can with lunch, and one can every few days with after dinner snack. Always iced tea for dinner.
I burn calories faster than most human beings ( 
the rest of you) so it hasn’t affected my weight. I dislike the taste of diet sodas since early 1960s Tab.
I was in a class once where one of the people at our lunch table worked for a company making an artificial sweetener. She said there was no aftertaste - everyone else at the table said “yes there is.”
When I went to early meetings at the Western Electric plant in Oklahoma City, the engineers all drank soda and grudgingly supplied coffee for us Yankees.
Sometimes I’ll go through a phase of consuming it daily for a period of a few weeks, and then I won’t drink it at all for months on end.
I primarily drink water, tea and coffee.
I gave it up, shortly before my doctor advised me to. I’m 63. I was drinking one to three a day, and the sugar megadose wasn’t good. Since then, I’ve lost significant weight.
I didn’t switch to diet sodas, because I loathe the taste of them, no matter what they’re sweetened with. My number one drink, by far, is simply chilled water.
Diagnosed Pre-Diabetic 5 years ago. Soda was one of several things I gave up. Surprised at how little I’ve missed it.
I drink one 8-ounce Diet Coke with dinner every night. I used to drink 2-3 cans a day but I made the decision to cut back. Replaced it mostly with water, haven’t missed it. I do still enjoy my one little can a day, though.
it varies for me somedays ill drink a few sometimes i dont … thing is I’m not supposed ot have any soda or anything with sugar due to weight and heart issues (ill drink one or two when no ones home)… so its more defiance than anything else …
but when i go to Dennys occasionally ill drink 4 to 6 cokes with cherry syrup in it …
Early 50s. In the winter, several weeks apart; in the summer, five or six per week. Prefer the 8 oz size.
I drink *soda a couple times a week in the summer.
Maybe once a week during the winter.
I grew up drinking soda almost daily. I cut back after college. Ice Tea is my main drink at home.
*Soda, Coke, Dr Pepper or Mountain Dew. Coke is my favorite. Once in awhile I’ll get Dr Pepper at a restaurant.
I have a Diet Coke (or Coke Zero, or Diet Pepsi, or generic version of same) with lunch and dinner nearly every day. But when we run out, and it takes a few days to get to the store and replenish, I don’t have any withdrawals or anything (probably because I get most of my caffeine from coffee, and I never let myself run out of that). And I don’t like sugar soda. Rarely, when there’s no diet option, I’ll try a full sugar soda again and I can never finish it. It’s hell on my stomach.
I drink a ton of pop, (who calls it soda, anyway?) Diet Coke specifically. At least 6-8 half liter bottles a day.
I can’t remember the last time I had sugary soda. Maybe I bought a bottle of Strawberry Crush a while back for nostalgia’s sake. I gave up most diet soda a couple of years ago. It had been my go-to beverage for anytime. At most, I have one can a week now (Sprite Zero or Fresca) on my trip to the farmers market. Or maybe if I have a hair appointment. Car trips other than my commute, basically. And as a mixer in cocktails. I’m in my late 50’s. I don’t miss it at all.
Aspartame and saccharine have never really tasted sweet to me. I still yearn for cyclamates, which did actually taste sweet.
I chose “yes, regularly.” Every weekday, I buy a 20-oz bottle of diet soda at lunchtime: usually Diet Pepsi, sometimes diet ginger ale, less frequently diet root beer, and very rarely Diet Mountain Dew. Diet Pepsi is definitely my soda of choice. There’s one one my desk right now. 
When circumstances warrant, I can tolerate a Coke Zero.
Sometimes I finish the bottle well before the end of the day and buy another one; sometimes I take the partially-drunk bottle home and finish it with my dinner. Every Thursday I have a 2-hour workshop immediately after work, and on my way out of the office I usually buy another bottle to take to that.
I don’t usually keep soda in the house, but every now and then I’ll go on a spree of having Diet Pepsi in the fridge. Right now there is some orange vanilla Coke Zero in my fridge: flavor-wise I was hoping for creamsicle but got St. Joseph’s baby aspirin, and I haven’t figure out what to do with the rest of the cans yet. (I should probably bring them into work.)
When I’m at a restaurant that doesn’t have Pepsi – which is most of them around here – I order (unsweetened) iced tea. Unless it’s a place with one of those Coke machines where you can make your own flavors: then, I’m all about some vanilla Sprite Zero mixed with some raspberry Sprite Zero.
I’m 48.
Every day. at least three diet ones.
I drink water when giving speeches or making long walks.
I’m 66 and drink perhaps 10 sodas a year. For me it’s coffee in the morning and water during the rest of the day. Sometimes when we eat out I’ll drink unsweetened iced tea, but never soda.
For some strange reason, however, whenever I fly, I order ginger ale from the drink cart.
FWIW, during my rehab after heart bypass surgery earlier this year, the nurses told me that diet soda was more harmful than regular soda.
NB: I’ll be 65 in January.
Same here! 
not so much anymore, apart from the unsweetened stuff like Bubly or La Croix. trying to drink far less sweetened stuff (whether sugar or artificial) in general.
I’m right up there with you. I tend to drink diet coke and diet pepsi almost interchangeably. I rarely drink from bottles though. It’s almost always from a convenience store fountain system. I just finished my second 2-liter mug of the day and I’d be surprised if I don’t get a refill before the end of the day.