My life I had fought with my weight. I don't know how often I would look in the mirror only to see my unsightly body parts and limbs growing at a steady pace. After my divorce, I worked out frequently 3-4 times a week. At 34 I felt amazing. When you are in shape, it is almost like you wake up and walk round with this instantaneous sense of achievement that you could do anything. If you are out of the shower you feel great, when you wear shorts, you feel good, when you go to the beach- you simply feel good. But somehow I had let myself go-again. When my work-out schedule slowed down and finally stopped, my desire had not and slowly throughout the course of a calendar year, I regained all of my burden. {