I love food, and for years I have loved to cook food, and think about what to cook, and of course eat food. I own hundreds of cook books, I devour food writing and food tv shows.

There is nothing wrong with any of these statements, except that for basically my whole adult life I had been obese. Something had to change.

I totally re-invented what I cook with, and how I cook.

But I still love cooking and eating the food that I make.

I am happy to make something that requires lots of processes, or that might take a long time, or that might take some forward planning. That to me is a love of cooking. If you're looking for just easy, quick, healthy mealplans that you can batch cook and re-heat each night of the week - you're in the wrong place. I loathe batchcooking. It has not contributed to my weightloss.

I do also make quick and healthy meals, but variety of what I eat is part of what has made this sustainable for me. Eating the same few meals constantly on rotation makes me have naughty thoughts about eating the sorts of food that got me to over 400lbs in the first place.

Now I'm under 250 pounds. Still working on it, but for the first time as an adult, I'm not obese. I haven't given up food I love - I've found new food to love. This isn't a diet. It's a behavior change. And it started in the kitchen!

I'm tall, it has been a tall order to make these changes - welcome to The Tall Order Kitchen!