The thing I found about 'non-alcoholic' beers is that there's still 0.05% alcohol in them, obviously not enough to get drunk but it did seem to make cravings so, so much more severe.
Pepsi is my go to drink of choice when socialising. I laughed out loud when I was drinking like my 5th can of Pepsi Max of the evening and a drunken friend who'd had about 8 ciders said "You know the sweeteners in that are bad for you?"
Haha!