The goal is to get you off soda, off caffeine, and get the kids and all your families involved, too.

I think these folks have been very real. When you have a birth of a baby, when you have to travel with your work, when you have stress because there's changes of jobs at your household and when you have struggled because your family doesn't want to eat what you want, that is reality.

I really do think snacking is the key to dieting. We know if you can steady your blood sugar, then your body will most likely burn fat.

Since I won't get to go into their homes, I really need to see from this journaling what the meal sizes at dinner are like. What are some of the foods they like and, for lunch, who brings lunch and who eats out?

The first is to love your liver. Your liver is the big powerhouse to process foods, as well as process all the toxins that we know. So if you can eat foods that support your liver function, you'll actually have a better process.

I admire the kids being able to take this kind of pressure. They work for four years and everything comes down to less than 30 seconds. In other sports, there's a losers' bracket or you can work back in a second half. At some point there's redemption. In swimming it comes down to one perfect race at the exact right time.