We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.

I kept buying bigger and bigger jeans, and once the size 14s got too tight, I thought: 'That's it. I'm not buying the next size'.

It took me years after stopping the cocaine before I was able to enjoy a sunrise and enjoy the sound of birds.

Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. Forbidden is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. Its there to nourish your body.

I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.

When you're busy blocking out difficult emotions and feelings, you're not going to feel the good stuff, either.

After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.