This is what I posted on the community board for MY STORY
Believe in a diet, don’t believe in a diet, believe in a diet, don’t believe in a diet (repeat this numerous times over 50 years; accept myself, criticize body, accept my body, criticize myself; study nutrition, learn healthy ways to eat food I like; watch others, study self; come to terms with what food is in my life; experience a long time with healthy eating without a weight loss; then experience a long time of healthy eating without a weight gain; then experience long times of trying to healthily lose weight, and have weight loss be resistant to my efforts; settle, not settle; settle, not settle many times over; find some comfort and love and appreciation for all the great things my body does for me besides house my soul; some of the great things have been to heal from serious disease, gave birth to two beautiful, healthy daughters; be grateful for my body; I Am grateful for my body; I now want to feed my body in a way that tastes and feels right for me and I am giving Atkins a try.
I also posted this stock photo on my facebook page today because this refrigerator looks a lot like mine — everything stacked and “balanced.” And Tom wonders why there is MORE food in the refrigerator when I am ON a diet than when I am not on one.
It’s a mystery. Sometimes he wonders whether he should approach his dinner plate with a fork or a lawnmower, there is so much green stuff on it.
and on we go, tomorrow’s another day.
Napkinwriter 
Oh, yeah, I relate. Only add into my food story a neurosis of fearing gluten, since being so ‘sick almost unto death’ with celiac disease. I am now persnickity about eating, but let me just say, I’m not skinny! 🙂
Hi Curtis Ann,
The most lovely thing I know about you is that you fulfill your purpose by entering your days in great gratitude for all that is holy (and all is), you are faithful to your pen, and you reflect God’s great beauty by being his Earthling gardener, sharing wonderful creations from the soil.
All of that beats “skinny”
i really feel for you in this struggle, another friend of mine has had a huge breakthrough after a lifetime of trying …. she has cut out sugar in all its forms and has never felt better plus weight gradually dropping off … she is in her late 40’s … so eating everything natural, no ‘diet’ products or manufactured stuff like margarine … just whole food and no sugar 🙂 good luck with the Atkins approach!
sugar and whole grains are the thing! I love whole grains even more than sugar – I think down the line they get added in somewhat (grains, not sugars). Sugar IS the culprit and also addictive, SO sugar and crunchy snacks GONE for a long time. Even having studied Nutrition with Cooper Institute Certification, this has been the challenge of my life, to get it right by this late date. I have great hopes this will produce more than a 5 pound weight loss.