Speaking of calories…I just dropped my subscription to WW’s and picked up the BodyBugg (calorie management system). It is an armband that I wear all the time and it tracks (accurately) how many calories I burn in a day. There is a website that goes along with the device that measures my calories in versus my calories out. It is crazy to know how many calories I burn just from sleeping and having a normal day without working out. For more info you can check out my blog where I have been talking about it for a couple days or the Bodybugg site. I highly recommend it. Some people will be immediately turned off by the price. But I look at is as an investment in my health.

I’m surprised no one has said anything about weight loss surgery yet. I know a lot of people have an opinion on it (because I’m one of them!)

As someone who, at 5′10″, weighed 306 pounds, I was overweight enough to qualify as obese … if not morbidly obese. But even at my highest weight, and desperately wanting to take off the pounds, I didn’t consider surgery.

I’d watch the stories on the news about Carnie Wilson’s big success, and see other surgery success stories — but a part of me always felt like that was cheating. I knew there was a diet plan out there, somewhere, that would work for me. (For me, it was Atkins — lost 110 pounds in 2 years … then gained 70 back in the next 2, when I met the Boyfriend and fell off the low-carb wagon).

Now I’m doing WW, and I know it’s a plan I can stick with for the rest of my life.

I also wanted to say that I TOTALLY relate to the first question. I seriously could have written it myself. That’s why I love your Q&A videos so much!

AND, I really liked the intro!