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Of course your nutrition is harder than your training program (or workouts if you're not training for anything specifically). If you're doing moderate intensity/high volume training, you're in the gym for maybe 2-3 hours. If you're doing high intensity training, you're in the gym for an hour max (this is what I do). The other 20+ hours of the day is you trying to control your nutrition. It's a lot more difficult to do if you aren't doing anything about making it sustainable.

I love sweetened drinks as much as anyone. But I know it has a lot of empty calories (calories that contain no vitamins or minerals and especially no high quality protein). Rather than completely cut it from my life and fail my nutrition plan later, I simply allow myself one small or medium (12-16oz) sweetened drink every two weeks. I train my ass off in the gym, and I know that later on, I can have my matcha latte or my sea salt caramel coffee or whatever when I've earned it (by staying on my nutrition plan for the two weeks). It's served me well so far that I'm down to one drink per month, though I'm not going to give it up more than that.

Hope that gives you a decent example of how to make your own sustainable plan. Good luck to you.