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I've struggled with weight all my life. All through school I was bothered by the fact that I was overweight and it greatly impacted my high school years. I never had a date nor went to any dances. I even missed my senior prom. I also didn't have very many friends. Although I tried to be "the life of the party", I was always crying on the inside. There was a point in my life when I reached a crossroads. I had two choices. Accept my life as it was or make changes. I opted to make a change and reach my dream of weight loss and ultimately long term weight loss maintenance.
I tried several drastic fad diets and achieved weight loss success with them - the Cambridge diet, Cabbage Soup diet, diuretics and laxatives, binging and purging, very low calorie diets, the Atkins diet. While they brought me short-term weight loss, I never achieved long term weight maintenance.
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I did not get serious about losing weight until I joined TOPS (Take off Pounds Sensibly) ® in January of 2001. I weighed 278 pounds, which was the most I had ever weighed in my life. The only reason I did that was because I was contemplating weight loss surgery. I was absolutely terrified of undergoing major surgery and anesthesia. Something just clicked this time.
I lost 140 pounds and got to goal in November of 2003. I've raised my goal since then by 9 pounds, and my goal is currently 147 pounds. For those that are curious, I'm 5' 5" tall. There's a small photo gallery of before, during and after pictures that depict my journey. It's a struggle to maintain my weight loss, but it was more of a struggle being morbidly obese. And it's definitely worth all the effort that I put into it. I've never been happier.
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