I’ve been fortunate to have been raised in a healthy lifestyle. As a kid my family would bike, hike and run year round.  But along the way, like everyone else, I picked up bad habits.  My bad habit was drinking soda, which I let get out of control when I started work at CIGNA … three sodas a day during the week, sometimes four.  But on last year’s tour, the material I read about the sugar content of soda started to strike a nerve. It hit a breaking point when a co-worker greeted me at the finish ceremony with a cup filled with 6 tablespoons of sugar and said “drink up Tom”.  That’s when I said, “Enough! I’m going to stop.”  Almost a year later I have been soda-free.  Replaced the habit with water and I reward myself by spending the would-be soda money on iTunes.