This is something Dr. Phil NEVER talks about....When you have been slender all your life and you start gaining weight over the years. It is hard to see, except in your jean size, that you are actually gaining weight because you aren't looking for it. It started like this, I was happily going along in my size 6 Levi's when I went to pull them on one day and....SOMEONE SHRUNK MY JEANS!!!!!!...oh, wait, I am the only one who does the laundry. HHHHMMMM....did I just buy them? I wonder if they changed the design? Yes, that is it, they changed the design and it retroactively effected my jeans in my closet. Sneaky little devils those jean companies are to send their little worker elves into my closet so my jeans are up to date with the new design. Then what do they do, hide under your bed so they can watch your expression the next morning when you can't get your big toe in them? So, fine, I go to size 8. That's okay, it is still a single digit number. Size 8, that's still fine for me, I am getting older you know. I have had children. Size 8 it is. So, when my size 8 jeans are looking a little worn, I run into the store and pull a size 8 off the shelf, buy it and bring it home. The next morning....MY SIZE 8 JEANS DON'T FIT. Well then, let's look at the tag, I must have grabbed a size 6 instead. No, the tag says 8. Fine, let's write to Levi's and let them know that they are going to blow my ego all to hell if they make me go double digits and couldn't they please go back to the old style so I can wear my size 8 jeans and feel good about myself. I received a rather lengthy response from Levi's. Bottom line, we are sorry, we have been watching the market and we feel that this style fits more of the people in this size range than the last one. Fine, I'll clone myself a thousand times, will you bring the old style backthen???? So, off I went to double digits. On the way home I thought, "How did this happen?" I eat fruit, anything in season, apples, pears, nectarines (my favorite, I live for nectarine season), bananas and grapes all day at work. I eat yogurt or cottage cheese about mid morning. When I get tired in the early afternoon off I go to one of the two popular coffee places in San Francisco and get a caffeinated blended drink. What is that you say?? What do you mean they have a lot of calories in them? How can a drink have a lot of calories in it? How can you gain weight from a drink??? So, then it is time for my physical. My little tiny petite doctor, I swear she is about 5'1" and, maybe one hundred pounds soaking wet, tells me I should probably lose weight. Just a little bit. A very do-able number in fact (for a normal person with any type of willpower!!!). Then she asks me if I know where my problems are...yes, at P--t's and S-------ks. Well, she is also a cancer doctor, I'm sorry I can't think of the scientific proper name for it right now. So she says, "You know what I tell my cancer patients to drink so they can gain weight?" Gee, let me guess, S------ks?? Yes, they have a lot of calories. So, now I need to find a S------ks Anonymous meeting. I need help, I need support, I need to stand up in front of everyone and admit..."My name is Kathleen and I am a S------ksaholic" Then I need to sit with same group of people and try to detox myself from these evil drinks, go back to getting a straight cup of coffee and the pounds will just melt themselves off and I will be in a size 6 jeans again. Right???