In the entire process, I have routinely looked at only three things on nutritional information boxes: Serving size, calories and fat. That's it. Nothing else.

The point of this is that, for many fat people, the idea of losing weight is incredibly intimidating. People make dieting so complicated that new dieters can have a hard time figuring out what to eat.

I think that is the one problem with all these fad diets and all the advice that non-fatties give to fatties. Do you know how many times I failed on Atkins? Tons. Do you know how many pages I read in the South Beach Diet book before I decided it wasn't for me? Over 100. Do you know how many times I looked into the Zone diet? Two or three.

And even when I figured this diet out, which I've tailored to what I like to eat, I decided early on that one of my main objectives would be to seriously cut carbohydrates. It's become a dirty word in the Atkins world. But you know what? People started telling me I need carbs in my diet. And you know what? They were right. But still, that made me confused. Sure, after a little research I decided that carbs were, in fact, necessary for this diet. But had I just casually decided to drop a few pounds, I never would have known.

So the only advice I have for fatties trying to not be fatties anymore is this: No matter what you eat, remember that the only way to lose weight is to burn more calories than you eat. And if you follow that one very simple rule, you will lose weight. All you have to do is find the best way for you to do that.

It doesn't take a fucking genius or a paperback bestseller to figure that out.

But, that said, keep the advice coming to me. I kind of like it now.