103 Pounds Lost by Eating Fruits & Vegetables

We want you in Bay area in 48 hours, “shouts Jacky, mimicking her job's frequent demands for airline travel “Usually, I'd travel light and come home with 10 extra pounds.”

She's exaggerating, obviously, although not by much. At one time, the 41-year-old consulting-firm director and mother of three carried 18st 111b on her 5-foot-2-inch frame. She blames the surplus baggage about the sheer exhaustion of creating repeated long distance trips. “When you're that tired, you consume what's convenient - which can indicate processed foods,” she says. “And once I'd mess it up, I'd feel sick the entire trip. It creates a cycle of bad eating.”

Finally, Jacky wised as much as her unhealthy ways. Temptation is greatest when you are from your routine,” she says. So, “I pack an urgent situation food kit, utilizing an insulated lunch bag,” she explains. “I grow it with cans of tuna, small cans of vegetables, canned snack packs of fruit which are for kids' lunches (the serving sizes are perfect), fruit and bottled water. This way, I am not a victim of airport food or late-night room service because it is the only thing available.”

Today, annually later and 103 pounds lighter, Jacky is satisfied, comfortable and soaring with energy. She says that packing her emergency food kit is much like brushing her teeth. “I won't go out without doing either one,” she says. “They're a lot a part of me which I can't prevent them.”