I had a lot of luck on my all-tuna, all-the-time diet in 2001, so I'm back on it. Perhaps I'm alone in this (my friends insist that I am) in my ability to subsist on tuna for long periods of time.

Here's the basic drill - tuna salad for lunch. Tuna sandwich (and cold peas) for dinner. Breakfast is a single piece of wheat toast to jump start the metabolism.

As I did in 2001, I have bid a sad farewell to my friends cheese and Coca-Cola. I don't care what anyone says - I love Coke (the soda, not the narcotic). People who make Coca-Cola are doing God's work and I am sorry to say I'm no longer going to be a customer.

But, nothing worthwhile comes easy. I've got to buy a new scale tonight and will hope that it gives me nothing but good news in the coming days, weeks and months.

To a healthier, kinder self!