Many of us love a good story of a weight loss battle with a happy, skinny ending. I myself have fluctuated most of my life a good 20 pounds (sometimes more). I am eating healthy (for now) and losing weight because I was not happy with the outcome of eating whatever I wanted to excess (I could not button my pants). I said to my daughter after eating a meal of about 4,000 calories, “That’s it! Tomorrow I am in food jail.” She responded, “Why don’t you just eat moderately all the time?” What does she know at 17? After, about a week, I said to my husband, it is not a diet. If I choose to be the weight that I am comfortable with for the rest of my life, I will need to accept that I must consistently make healthy choices and eat appropriate quantities, indefinitely. (I am down 4 pounds and have 10 to go…)