I am a 25 year old mother of two beautiful kids. I have a son who is five and a daughter who is one. All the women in my family fight their wieght every day, and the ones who don't have to get their stomach cut or stapled or whatever to help them in the end. So after I had my little girl I got my butt in gear. Unfortunately another side effect of my family is we get HUGE when we are prego. I gained 55 pounds and had an 11.5 pound baby. When I got home I weighed 211 pounds. I lost the weight, well all but 8 pounds right away. After that I quit smoking (which I said I would do when I lost the weight) I gained back about 15 pounds...WOW!! So now I am back to the old diet, which I will be doing the rest of my life to loose this weight and keep it off. Eight pounds down, 15 to go. I refuse to be fat and let me life go. I love playing with my kids, how can I do that overweight?