Hey, FP, I'll take a root beer float. I do much the same thing, trying to keep my sugar intake down. When I was a teenager, I was a car hop at an A&W drive in in my home town. The car hops were all guys because they'd had so much trouble with customers coming on hard to girl car hops. Car Hopesses? I've always loved A&W but I must say that I now prefer IBC in bottles. Cans never get the soda as cold as a bottle, and they have a subtle effect on the flavor... besides not keeping the soda cold as long.
I also make ice cream sundaes with sugar free ice cream and sugar free Smuckers caramel syrup. The problem is, because it's sugar free I end up eating weigh (way) more than I should. I figure if I'm praying not to be led into temptation, I shouldn't be the one doing the leading, so I don't keep the stuff in the house regularly. I don't want to look like the Michelin Man, sugar or nor sugar.