Addicted to kool-aid/sugar, gaining weight from it.

So at the beginning of June I decided to quit soda. Since I was drinking diet, I wasn't gaining any weight from it. The thing is, I was drinking about 4 liters, the equivalent of a full gallon every day.

The unfortunate thing is, in my mind, I have not successfully quit. I am instead drinking a full gallon of kool-aid every day. I put in half the normal amount of sugar, but that's still a full cup instead of 2 cups. I just did a calculation and that's 774 calories that are doing nothing beneficial to my body.

I attempt to drink water, consume a full cup then decide it doesn't have the sweet taste I desire and proceed to drink a full cup of kool aid next.

Because of all the kool-aid, I've gained 7 pounds since June started. Fortunately, I've been on a diet for a year now, lost 60 pounds, and am at a solid 20.2 BMI. But the pounds are creeping back on.

Any suggestions on how to stop my kool-aid addiction would be great. I just don't know what to do because I went a year drinking massive amounts of diet soda everyday and am not used to not having my sweet fix.

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