kimbalaya
I hope it's okay to be on here if I'm not planning (at this point) to have surgery. I know several people who have had the surgery and I definitely need to lose weight! I'm working on it on my own right now and doing pretty well.
My highest weight ever was 308 lbs, in October 2002. Shortly after that I became pregnant with my first child. My body loved pregnancy and I actually lost weight before gaining, ending up at that same 308 lbs when she was born in July 2003. Following her birth I had the inevitable weight loss that comes just because the baby is out ;) and managed to get down to 269 lbs before getting pregnant with my second child in November 2004. Pregnancy wasn't as kind to me that time, and I only gained, weighing 300 lbs at her birth in July 2005.
Since July 2005 I managed to get down to 275/280 and bounced around between those weights until October of 2006, at which time I started a program called the Prism Weight Loss Program. As of this writing, I am down to 231 lbs, for a 50 lb loss in the past 11 weeks.
My ultimate goal weight is 160 lbs, but we'll see how it goes when I reach it - if I get to 150 I won't be upset, but I'm not going to push for it unless I feel differently when I get that close.
So that's me, in a nutshell. A very good place to be when you're a nut.
