[Strangler Lewis]

One of the cardinal rules of weight loss is don't drink your calories. Be it soda, juice or alcohol. Whatever form it's in, sugar is an addictive drug. Best avoided. I've done pretty well just drinking water and limiting alcohol and dessert consumption to legitimately special occasions, which works out to about every two weeks.

Oh, and there's my 18 shots of espresso in the morning, but nobody's perfect.

I think the obesity epidemic is linked to an unhappiness epidemic, which family style restaurants have exploited by providing temporary fixes in the form of monstrous portions of fat and sugar. I'm toying with the idea of writing a diet book, tentatively titled "Please Don't F*** the Potpie."