I am now in a size 6 and only five pounds to goal. All the walking in Michigan has really helped to take off the inches and move me into a new size. I think I might even be a size 4 or 5 if it weren't for the SKIN.

Skin! It's an amazing organ. It stretches to cover our tremendous appetites and pregnancies. It stretches a lot! But, all that stretching does not mean that if you stop the stretching that it will go completely back down.

To give skin credit, at least...

I did it! I've made it through the long plateau and the scale started moving again. Today I bought a size 8 and wore it! It wasn't too tight, it wasn't baggy, it was just right. Know what else? It was WHITE!

White is one of those colors that you're taught not to wear when your fat because it just makes you look fatter - or something like that. Anyway, it was what my mom always told me so I have always avoided wearing white. In fact, I've been a dark color person most of my...