[46.] What is your ideal goal weight? How many pounds do you need to lose in order to reach your goal weight? Do you think your goal weight is realistic enough for your age and your body frame? Why?

[45.] Exercise, and diet "buddies" can be really helpful, but too much dependence can also sabotage your routine. How have friends hindered your weight loss success in the past, and what do you do to overcome those obstacles?

[44.] Are you a stress eater? What constitutes it? Since starting your weight loss journey, have you learned to deal with stress in a nonfood way? If so, how?

[43.] Do you plan to have/would you consider having plastic/cosmetic surgery once you arrive at your weight goal?

[42.] Diet blogs are in the news. Three questions come to mind. Why are there such a proliferation of diet blogs on the Internet? Why do a large percentage of diet blogs disappear into cyberspace and never to return ever again? Why do we rarely see one achieve her or his goal weight while in *active blogging status*?