Part 1 What I Believed on the Way Up the Scale 1 -- If I Wasn't Fat, I'd Be Happy 3 -- I Have to Find the Perfect Diet 6 -- If I Learn Why I Eat, I'll Be Able to Stop 8 -- Beware of Exploding Donuts 11 -- Tupperware Will Save Me 13 -- Maybe I'm Big-Boned 15 -- Maybe I Have a Slow Metabolism 16 -- Maybe I Don't Have Enough Willpower 18 -- Maybe I'm Hungry 20 -- Real Men Eat Nachos 21 -- Even Santa Claus Was Jolly 23 -- If You Could Only See the Real Me... 25 -- You Have to Dodge the Delivery Guy 27 -- Hide and Sneak 29 -- Listen to Your Hunger 31 -- Part 2 What I Learned on the Way Down 37 -- War Is Over, and I Lost 39 -- I'm a Food Junkie 41 -- If You Bite the Chocolate Bunny, He May Bite Back 43 -- Food Fix 48 -- I Have a Disease 50 -- Slow-Motion Avalanche 55 -- Disease Is a Triple Threat 58 -- Fat and Getting Fatter 60 -- Ready, Set,...Worry 63 -- Entree Envy 55 -- Don't Believe the Hype 68 -- All Eaters Are Not Born Equal 71 -- One Hundred Diets, Zero Success 74 -- 10-90 77 -- Part 3 Food, Glorious Food 81 -- A Note to the Skippers 83 -- Remarkable, Life-Changing, Ultra-Amazing Secret of What I Eat 85 -- Red, Yellow, Green (and I Don't Mean Salad) 87 -- Traffic Light 92 -- Brace for Bad News 94 -- Abstain 96 -- Kicking the Habit 99 -- Near-Chocolate 102 -- If You Fail to Plan, You Plan to Fail 104 -- Three a Day 106 -- Food Math 108 -- It's Just Lunch 110 -- It's Just Wednesday 112 -- But I Want Tortilla Chips 113 -- Nobody Ever Starved between Lunch and Dinner 115 -- My Friend the Scale 116 -- Power of "a Little Hungry" 118 -- It's a Meal, Not a Masterpiece 120 -- Sometimes It's about Learning to Eat the Cookie (a Note to My Anorexic and Bulimic Friends) 123 -- Magic Is Not in the Food Plan 126 -- Part 4 What I Know Now 127 -- A Bagel Never Jumped into My Mouth 129 -- Spiritual Insulin 135 -- Secret of the Caesar Salad 137 -- A Ph.D. in Overeating 139 -- My Body Is None of My Business 141 -- Little Boy, Big Body 143 -- I Ate Over What Was Eating Me 147 -- Want to Find Out Why You're Overeating? Stop 149 -- I Eat Because I'm an Overeater 153 -- Life Does Not Begin at Size 34 Pants 155 -- Allen Has Left the Building 157 -- Eating Well Is My Ticket to the Show 160 -- A Brownie Saved My Life 162 -- Warning: Miracle in Progress 163 -- Secret of My Success 165 -- This Is Not a Self-help Book 166 -- Afterword: What You Can Do Now 169.