I am 39 years young and a mother of 3. I weighed 98 pounds when I got pregnant the first time and topped out at 233 pounds after the third child and a real good depression. I spent my days sleeping, my nights eating when no one was watching, and felt miserable that I couldn't even get down on the floor and play with my kids. One day I hit an all time low and realized that only one of us going to win...my weight or the me that I new that inside of all this weight. I chose that second to beat this weight. I didn't follow any diet plan. I joined a gym...lifetime...where I didn't feel like I was in a meat-market. I just started by walking 30 minutes a day on the treadmill. And just made the changes that I always knew were the right choices to make. Fresh fruits and vegtables over canned or frozen, whole grains over white or processed, low-fat instead of full-fat, increasing my fiber, decreasing my alcohol and sugar, and looking at the ingredients of things I pick up. Learning how to properly read a food label was a big help. It took me a year and a half, but I did it slow and in a healthy way. I went from 233 pounds and all flab to 168. I went from an 18 to an 8. Then my 20 year reunion was this summer. I really wanted to look good and worked out more and lost more weight and went to my reunion weighing 134 pounds. That was a total loss of 99 pounds from where I topped out at!!! But I worked so hard and so fast to produce those results for the reunion that when it was over...so was my motivation. That was June. And since then I have gained 26 pounds back. Now I'm 160 pounds and I'm back to take that weight off again, but following the methodology I did the first go round...nice and slow and reasonably and doing the things I inherently know are the right things to do for my body. Wish me luck!!!