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A little bit about myself, I have lost and kept off 60 lbs for a little over than 2.5 years. I was a healthy baby, and a healthy kid, but around age 10 I slowly but surely started to gain weight. By age 12, I was around 140 lbs on a 5'0'' frame. No one in my family was overweight and no one had any major eating disorders, so no one really realized I was off to an unhealthy start. By the time I was 14  15 I was almost 30  40 lbs heavier than my classmates. Now everyone realized I was fat, all of a sudden I was being picked on, and some of my friends did not even want to be seen with me in public. But like all other overweight kids, though I was the only overweight kid around, I found the comfort in food every time I felt down. Long story short by the time I was 18 I hit the 185 lbs mark. From ages of 18 through 23 I have tried different diets, there was a week that I ate nothing but figs where I lost 15 lbs in a week and gained 25 lbs right after. Than there was a month where I tried acupuncture for weight loss, that one started out good but then the acupuncturist started to weight me every day and boy the days that I did not lose any weight was days from hell, he used to yell at me a lot for not losing, so I did what is needed to be done, I stopped eating, I mean I literally did stop eating for whole day until the weight in, and than eat after the weight in. With acupuncture I lost 20 lbs but unfortunately I gained 30 lbs may be more back immediately. At age 21 I traveled to US for an internship and stayed with my aunt for a month, she prepared a boot camp for me, where I used to wake up at 5:30 am, run, exercise and eat healthy. That was at least the healthier way but unfortunately I did not meet my aunt's expectations in terms of weight loss. I lost some weight, well 18 lbs in a month to be exact, but then hit the plateau and no matter how hard I exercised the scale did not move a bit, I mean a bit. The internship ended so did the boot camp. Fast forward to age 23, I moved to US for master's degree. The fast food was cheap, the options were endless, and there was no one around to tell me I should be careful with my weight and my health. The life style went on until the age of 25. During 2005 summer, I was going through bad times with my boyfriend, I was unhappy, something needed to be changed but I did not even know what or how, I just was sure it was not my hair style or it was not anything that can be fixed with a shopping spree. I was unhappy and I needed to change me. On June 26th 2005 I went on a picnic with my friends, the day after the picnic my friends e mailed me the pictures and there I was way overweight, unhappy and looking like I was 35. I cried in front of my computer at work and I logged in to weight watchers site and I bought myself a three-month online membership and I started.

It was not easy, it was hard, it took a lot of discipline a lot of courage, I fell off the wagon so many times, I lost my motivation, I lost my will so many times, every morning I stepped on my bathroom scale hoping that I lost. I had people who made fun of a fat gal trying to lose weight, I have told by a skinny blonde chick that I should not be occupying the treadmill at the gym if I have no intention to run, but I had support too, my success in my weight loss and the creator of this beautiful web site, the man I love most is the person I dedicate my success, he was there to listen me when I whined, he was there to celebrate my success, he motivated me constantly and showed how proud he was of me. Hell just to prove how strong, healthy and fit of a woman I became I ran a marathon. He triggered the goal oriented, strong, independent woman in me, and I am very thankful to him for that.

As of today I have been keeping off the weight for 2.5 years, and I am 3 lbs heavier than my goal weight at the moment. During these 2.5 years of maintenance I was in +/- 10 lbs range of my goal weight.

Who ever you are out there: I did experience what you are experiencing, and I am sort of glad that I was overweight. Because losing 60 lbs proves to the whole world, how disciplined, goal oriented and stubborn you are that you can change your life in a tiny moment if you really want to. I know it is cliché but, if a childhood obese like me can do it, I don't see how you can't. And let me tell you something, it was probably the hardest thing I have ever experienced but it was a life changing experience, so enjoy every minute of it, make it count, once the journey is over, share your story with others to inspire, to lead, to motivate.

Please do share with me your story, your struggles, goals, incentives, achievements, how you plan on celebrating your success?

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