And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992.

My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.

I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation.

You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.

In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al - I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together.

I had started losing weight. I mean he didn't know anything about the journey that I was on at that point obviously but from my highest weight of just over 300 pounds I lost about 45 pounds.

I want people to make the same choice I made to get healthy.