What if you can't do what you once did, like run and jump up and down? You can walk, which is also good for your mind and mental attitude. You can do simpler exercises, like getting up and down from a chair without using your hands. You can stay fairly flexible. The most important thing is to not become sedentary.

There's a list of foods I can't have in the house. Peanut butter, can't have that in the house. Potato chips, can't have that in the house. Random little small mini candy bars, don't even think about it. I just have to watch everything. I have to stay between 1500 and 1600 calories a day. That's it.

If I don't take care of myself, if I don't feel good about myself, how can I help others?

I don't have a lot to offer one person. I have a lot to offer to a lot of people.

My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. A day doesn't go by where I don't sit and cry, listening to the stories. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh.

Every morning when I get up, I ask God what he wants me to do, ask him to lead me to the right people to help them.

Back in the 70s and 80s, women felt the discrimination of being overweight. And now 35% of the letters I receive are from men.