Sorry to hear that you lost control of your eating habits. The death of you father will have put lots of extra stress in your life and it is easy to imagine you loosing control of your food intake at this point. After that, well I'm afraid it was your fault!

You know how good it feels to be thinner and wear those other clothes. Do you want to get back there again. Oh boy, a cruise to cope with in 3 weeks.

So yes, I do suggest you go on induction, strict induction, for the next three weeks. At least some of those pounds will have gone. The problem will come on the cruise when if you eat everything you will be back to square one again. Might you need to go half and half on the cruise?

Good luck and may 2003 be a great year for weight loss.