Wow - it really is happening!

I have always struggled with weight for as long as I can remember. I was never a skinny kid (like my cousin, Cheryl), but I was at an okay weight. Then, when I was 15 years old, I thought I was fat (5'3" and 122lbs) and so I thought I would go on a diet using these pills called 'Ayds'. I don't know how I came to find out about them or how I hid them from my parents, but the idea behind them was that I would eat one piece (looked like a caramel) with a glass of hot water for breakfast and the same for lunch and then eat a normal dinner. I went from 122lbs to 115lbs. and was ecstatic! Needless to say, as soon as I stopped using them, I gained the weight back. I have realized over the years, that that's the problem with any of these quick fix ideas - as soon as you go back to 'normal', you gain all of the weight back. I have tried various diets over the years (Richard Simmons says not to call them 'diets' cuz the first three letters spell out the word 'die' - funny guy. :-) The best that works, at least for me, is to eat sensibly a la Weight Watchers, and so that's the way I plan to lose (and keep off) the pounds that have crept up over the years. Wish me luck! :-)