Susiecat you seem like your doing all the right things. Again for me its been well over a 14 months no more soda in the house at all ever ever . We started for my son and then after we all tried to go back and boy was it so nasty so sweet yuck yuck yuck , when I think back to all those years of drinking soda ... So its only homemade icetea, water, juices ,homemade juices from my juicer which I also use all types of veggies and friuts its the best all 100 natural nothing added at all. I gave up butter also only a tiny bit of lite creme cheese spread but mostly spreadable fruit. Of course me and dd;s do not eat not meat or any fish I have not wow since I was 22 years old dd 24 since she was 14 and dd 17 since she was 8. Husband and Son only eat turkey, chicken and fish . Once in a blue moon they will bbq and have a steak my son more then my husband. We all consume alot of vitamins and eat alot of fruit. No milk here only 1 percent for dh for the me and my dd;s only soymilk for my son none at all and even with soymilk we limit it. The biggest thing is there is no smoking yuck yuck yuck yuck and no alcohol which I am soooooo happy about I preached about that to I was blue in the face. For my son he cannot and honestly since they all have some stomach issues alcohol bothered my older dd when she did drink . So to all here is to more healthy eating and please please try activa it is wonderful it really works for your digestive system and if anything keep up the soda its no good and if you smoke or drink try to cut down it truly will add to you life . Peace. Catherine