Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!

Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.

I have a fat head - I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.

My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!

When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that's my food you see at the end of the show and it's not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I'm draining it, they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it.

That's a horrible thought. I guess cheese or wine. I think I might be too depressed to eat if I had to eat only one thing for the rest of my life.

I've also learned that you can't be all things to all people. Whatever it is that you're successful at, that has to be the No. 1 goal.