Good on you for getting healthy! and LOL @ "go without sofa"  According to my friend, soda doesn't make him gain weight. Yeah. Right. He said he used to drink way more pop than he does now, but he wasn't as big back then. I didn't know him at that point, but I bet he wasn't as big because he was younger and he was probably moving around more... He just got a job at a place that has free fruit for the employees, and he's also the biggest person there, so I hope that's going to be a positive influence for him.