Picaboo and others:
I have read this thread with great interest. I, too, am sick of the roller coaster. I have tried almost every diet there is! The diets work---for a while---and then I get sick of all the "rules" and food manipulations and quit them.

I am 55 years old. I look back at pictures of myself when I was in my teens and 20's and I looked beautiful! Why couldn't I just have been happy with myself????

I don't know what the answer is, but I am sick to death of getting messages in my email from all these dieting groups I have subscribed to, and I'm sick of thinking about food all day long and worrying about what I'm going to eat next, and what I'm going to fix for dinner, etc., etc., etc.

My latest idea is that I will work on increasing my activity and not worry about food, other than to eat whole foods and not processed stuff or fast food. If I really tried that for 6 months, I wonder where I'd be?

Thanks for listening.

Ann