Used to drink a lot of mildly sweetened lemonade in the summer; can't do that on this plan. Trying the diet drinks myself; looking for the cheaper ones that don't use aspartame (or at least, I can't find it in the ingredients list). Mixed results so far--I find that drinking the sweet taste can make me want more, whereas if I just wait a minute, the after-meal urge for something sweet goes away.

OTOH, after all the water, sometimes I just want TASTE. So I'm also buying club soda, Pelegrina, other flavored bubbly waters.

I have found that fixing my drinks with ice somehow sets off hunger pangs. Asked on the list about this and no-one else said it happened to them, but I do way better if I take the drinks straight up, cold from the fridge but no ice. Beats me.