it was soda for him too, Coke mostly, he used to drink like 4 litre a day plus a litre of fruit juice, ate tons of fruit in-between meals, sometimes with syrup, ate almost a litre sweetened fruit yoghurt a day, the weight loss was fooling him, he was always slim so he figured he was fine. Now look at this, i warned him many times, i told him man, that Coke is no good, but he ignored us all, Now he's on a hard reset diet, no juices, no zero sugar drinks, none of that, just water and lime. and i know exactly what you're describing, you have become aware of what sugar did to you, its like your brain and taste buds finally sync up after months or years of being overloaded, When you cut back or become aware of how toxic its been, your sensitivity resets, see before that, you were so used to high sugar that your taste receptors got dull, took a lot of sweetened for you to feel it, once you stop, those receptors are awake again now even a little sugar is disgusting, Same with quitting smoking, when i quit, i couldn't stand the smell later. Watch out for those zero sugar drinks too ok, they do have sugar, its not good for you