LOSING WEIGHT—WHAT A CHALLENGE! If you’re like I was, losing weight long term was an elusive goal. Over the years, I tried the Scarsdale Diet, the Atkins Diet, the grapefruit diet. I’d lose maybe 10 pounds with each and then gain them back within months. It wasn’t until I stopped active dieting and started swimming, biking and running to participate in triathlons that I began losing weight. Yet, it wasn’t so much from the exercising. Rather, as I developed my fitness routine I also—without consciously planning it—began to eat better. I stopped drinking sodas and candy bars every day. But...