Today I saw a commercial with Queen Latifah walking down a New York City street casually discussing how she is joining the ranks of celebs using the Jenny Craig Diet. Apparently, she is the new spokeswoman.

Kirstie's weight loss didn't really inspire me to want to go on Jenny Craig but watching Vallerie Bertinelli lose weight got my attention. Vallerie "looked" like a real woman before, during and after the transformation. She made weight loss "doable" for me.

Last weekend, I got so frustrated with my elliptical bike that I had my son drag it out the front door and leave it on the side of the curb for trash pick up!

It wasn't out there 30 minutes before a neighbor dragged it onto her patio and left it outside her front door for her son, who is autistic, to use to help him lose some weight.

[I also went inside and brought her my AbRoller. I have had it for many years , probably 7 - 10 , and I am getting much better results using the sit - up bar.]

Female Asiatic elephants have an average weight of 6,000 lb and males have an average weight of 12,000 lbs.

A circus elephant weighed 14,850 lbs.

African forest elephants weighs 6,000-13,000 lbs...

male African bush elephants weight 8,800-14,000 lbs and the female weighs 5,000-7,700 lb.

If one pound of body fat equals 3,500 calories and I need to lose 100 pounds...

then my "elephant" is that I must burn 350,000 calories to lose 100 pounds of body fat to reach my goal weight of 125 pounds or approximately 1/2 my body weight.

How big is YOUR elephant?