Re: Weight Loss Stories.

I have always been what is called big boned. Even as a child, I was the biggest girl in the class. While I was in middle school, I went through very tough situations and became very introverted. I stopped playing sports, I stopped hanging out with friends, and I stopped living life. Throughout the next four years, I continued to put on weight and ended up graduating high school at 244 pounds. Having no real plans or goals after high school, I became even more depressed, and within a year my weight had ballooned all the way up to 310 pounds. By the time my twenty-first birthday came around, I knew I wanted a different life, but I didn’t know how to get it or even if I deserved it. At that time, I began to try everything — from pills to shakes to starving myself on just fruits and veggies for a year — in order to lose the pounds I had packed on. I did lose weight, but as with all quick-fix fad diets, I eventually put it back on and found myself feeling more depressed, less motivated, and struggling to believe I could lose weight for good. Then one of my best friends cut me out of her life, and I was devastated. I hated myself and knew that until I began to make a change — in my body and how I viewed myself — my world would never be different. I got on the it's summer and time to try to lose the weight one last time. At 290 pounds, I knew I needed a lasting change, and I felt that getting healthy would be the first step toward improving my life. So this is the start of a new me!