Overweight people are more likely to drink diet sodas...

Oh I guess I was doing it wrong, I was drinking lots of the high calorie non diet sodas.

I agree, I drank diet coke way before I was fat! If I go out now, it's usually when I'm not concerned too much with cals for the day (which is quite rare, but happens), I always start with a diet whatever, because I honest to jeebus prefer the taste of most diet drinks to the "full flavor" ones. They all taste bitter to me. I have had some servers who were pretty judgemental about it, but idgaf. I just stare at them while I'm eating my fried food and slowly sipping my DIET beverage...