didn't know how to write a movie script but I started getting up really early in the morning and writing a story of my own on my laptop. I set aside three or four hours every morning for that and then went about doing all the other stuff I had to do each day. After a while I didn't even have to set the alarm. It was kind of exciting to get up and start recording all the things I though up about my imaginary characters. I kept meeting up with the movie crew too - that's what I called them, the movie crew. I got lots of ideas for my story from them because all they did all the time was talk. Finally, one day, one of them said to me "Hey, you've lost weight." It was weird but after that they kind of lost interest in me. Maybe they only let me into their group in the first place because I was fat. But it was true; I had lost weight. I hadn't weighed myself for weeks and weeks but I could remember what my weight used to be all right; it was all I thought about back then. I was shocked to find out that I'd lost six pounds. It wasn't much but it hadn't been hard to do either. I kept doing what I'd been doing and getting up early in the morning to write my totally made up story and going for walks. I met other people and last week I went on a date; the first one in... God, I don't want to think how long it's been. It was fun. We're going out again tonight. Now, it took a while but so far I think I've lost almost fifty pounds. I'm not sure because I don't weight myself like everyday any more. I didn't lose it by obsessing about every pound, struggling with diets, swallowing handfuls of pills or huffing and puffing away at exercise programs; I managed to do it by changing small things in my life; things that were easy to change; unnoticeable things that gradually added up. But most of all, somewhere along the way, my attitude changed. I feel better about myself now. But the really weird thing is that I don't actually care how much I weigh any more. But maybe that's part of it; I stopped caring about whether I fit in and quit worrying about what people think about me. Oh yeah, you know my friend who fell in love and lost the weight? Well, that ended kind of suddenly and she started to pack it back on. She got worried that we weren't still friends but I just laughed. I'm pretty busy these days but we go to the movies together twice a week now. By the way, I finished writing my story and put it out as an eBook. If you actually want to read it go to http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/15693 where you can sample it for free. It's called AT LARGE.