My son and I were visiting, Wagner's Free Science Museum. (EXCELLENT, a must see, if you are ever in Philly -- the entire family will love the bizarre and fascinating items to view) What a shameless plug, but a great museum and it's free... But I digress, while there we saw a shark's brian. I commented on how small a shark's brain is and my son, genius that he is, stated, "It doesn't take a lot of brains to eat!" And I thought, wow, out of the mouth of babes....Why are we so fat, because it doesn't take any brains to just eat and eat and eat. And some of us are eating ourselves to death. We are too fat, look at some of our children, they are huge. Many young women, look like hippos. Now don't get offended and suspended in some fantasy of "whoa is me" and eat over your weight if you are, like me, physically telling the world that you are out of control. No one respects fat, your supposed to be the jolly, stupid one or the sidekick; but never taken seriously. Now for those of you who want to stay fat, continue to comfort yourself in lies by telling yourself, "you have big bones or some slow metabolism, a family history, blah, blah, blah." These are just excuses to comfort yourself in fatland. If you like causing fires as you walk, then keep eating. You aren't ready and that's okay. This is for those of us who are sick and tired of wanting to look and feel better. If you are ready to change the "shape" of your life, then find a daily mantra to keep you focused and remember that it takes time to reestablish habits. Take it one minute at a time and don't beat yourself up if you're not perfect. Don't think of this new change as a diet, but a new lifestyle. So take yourself seriously from this day forth, get professional help to find out what you are truly eating (feelings, memories, childhood traumas, bad relationships...) Just what is devouring you, along with your self-esteem? Find out, move forward and retrain yourself not to eat over it. Don't you want to feel beautiful on the inside? Well, when you do it will show on the outside. Now don't get mad at me, but focus on reality. Fat is not where it's at, I don't care what Monique says. Although, if you are going to choose to stay chubby, take a lesson from her. She never looks sloppy. She is always well groomed and sharp. You go, big girl. Now for the rest of us who like our hearts and want to be around to play with our grandchildren -- Get up from the table before you get to that hard crunchy surface, the plate, and rethink your attitude about living. Stop living to eat and start eating to live. Work out daily, even for only 20 minutes and change your life both physically and emotionally. You can do it, but it takes more brains than it does to just devour everything in sight.