Drinking your calories.

Been having trouble with staying away from calorie containing drinks. They add calories very quickly without your real awareness. Today I had almost 300 calories in my beverages and yesterday I consumed more. I will continue to try and keep a pact to drink only water or unsweetened coffee or iced tea. Some people like to substitute diet drinks, but I hate the taste and some studies have shown that artificial sweeteners can actually cause you to gain weight. I've heard of people shedding pounds by simply giving up soda. I'm not really a soda drinker though, it's the beer that gets me. Anyways time to give up the beer I guess.