So, in my last column I revealed that I was 128 pounds and needed to lose three pounds in order to meet the weight requirement before going up on wires for a media day of sorts that has been scheduled for the upcoming production of "Peter Pan" at Circa ‘21 Dinner Playhouse in Rock Island.

Well, when I got on the scale the next morning, I found out I really needed to lose five pounds. So, I went to the grocery store and bought a bunch of fruit, rice cakes and other healthy items, and I resurrected my www.tweetwhatyoueat.com diary.

Tweet what you eat, or @twye for the Twitter-lingual, has served as my conscience. All you need is a Twitter account to use the Web site, and it's really easy. Whenever you eat something, you just send a direct message to @twye and it logs your food for you. There is even a crowd portions option where the Web site will fill in the calorie content of the food you just ate and does all the calorie-counting for you.

And since you're sending the message direct to @twye, the messages are private, so nobody will see that you just fell off the bandwagon and ate three doughnuts for breakfast.

@twye helped me realize I had been eating about 2,500 calories a day, which is more than twice the 1,190 I should be eating to lose weight.

Thankfully, by drinking lots of water and replacing high-calorie foods, such as mounds of chocolate, with low-calorie, yet filling options such as fresh vegetables, I've cut my daily calorie intake in half without feeling hungry. Combine that with actually getting my rear end to the gym to exercise and eating a few prunes a day to make sure everything I eat departs in a timely manner, I've managed to lose three pounds since Friday morning.

Now I just have two more pounds to lose in the coming week in order to make the weight requirement so I can fly like Peter Pan. Quadsville's Mayor Melissa and I are going to run the Brady Street hill a few times Tuesday night. All runners are welcome. We'll meet by the train bridge at 6 p.m.