I've made no secret of the fact that I joined Weight Watchers. It has been six weeks now and after a gain last week it was back to a loss this week. I think I can accept it all.

Weight has been an issue for me for years, going back to high school. Through the younger grades I was one of those lean little kids everyone liked to pick on. I was average height but thin and wiry. I never really learned to fight but I could run like the wind back then.

High school came and personal disasters had changed me. The weight came on and like a good nerd I got glasses. Then began the yo-yo dieting of up and down with the pounds. Finally in 2002 I'd had enough and joined the program with my mother. Who knew you could lose 80lbs and feel great. Then I moved to Connecticut, watched the Weight Watcher's I was with move away, and soon enough the weight started to slowly go on. When my mother died and my father's health took a blow that required me to move back to Long Island I didn't put on weight, I exploded.

So now here we are again. Back on track, back on a Weight Watchers, and back to watching what I eat. I don't skip meals any more or only eat one time a day. Funny how some people look at those who are overweight and say they just eat too much. Actually the reverse can be true. We don't eat enough and our bodies think we are trying to starve so no matter what we eat it stores as fat and you just get larger and larger. So now I eat three meals a day, snack on fruits, and try to exercise daily. Six weeks into the program I am sitting at 16 pounds of weight loss and drinking enough water to float a boat.

The one thing about this program that I really like is that nothing is off limits. I hate being told I can't have something because then that is all I want. If I want a piece of pizza, fine have it. I want a slice of apple pie, go ahead and eat it. The thing is now I limit what I eat, the quantities each day, and enjoy a larger variety of food then ever before. Dieting is just Die with a t added for effect. What I am doing is a program that shows you how to live healthy not just lose weight. So each week I go in and when I've been good I see a drop, and when I haven't followed it I either stay the same or gain. Only one to blame is me. Wish me luck.