My name is Peg. I’m a 57 year old, single/divorced parent of three adult children and one precious granddaughter. They’ve all heard me say many times, whenever we’re talking about our detours in life, “Start right where you are!” In other words, there are no failures in life. You can start right where you are with anything that you desire for your life.

The Ms.Fits are off and running…and walking, and stair climbing, and cycling. The jazzed-up members of our hometown team, competing in the 100-day Live Healthy America challenge, tallied up an individual average of 39 minutes of activity every day. The team gets together twice daily during breaks to climb stairs at the University of Iowa, in addition to exercise they do on their own. As Kim, the team leader, wrote: “It’s not something that you can easily get out of either. None of us would just get up and do it on …

Oprah’s back on the weight-loss bandwagon. “How did I let this happen again?” she asks in the January issue of O. From a low of 160 pounds, she’s climbed back up to 200 pounds–and she’s determined, once again, to get them off. After reading “Feed Me!: Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Weight, and Body Image,” I couldn’t help wondering if Oprah wouldn’t have served women better–make that all of us–by saying, “That’s it. I’m through with dieting. I’m through trying to be someone I’m not. I love my ample self. Hallelujah!”