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The weight started creeping slowly when I turned 30 but took a turn when I quit my job to be a stay at home mom. Going from a 9-5, interacting with People, to interacting with kids all day in my home brought on signs of depression. I binged my way through my days. NAME : Yessica BEFORE WEIGHT : 200 AFTER WEIGHT : 140 POUNDS LOST : 60 HOW DID YOUR WEIGHT AFFECT ANY ASPECT(S) OF YOUR LIFE? I became an introvert who hated going to parties or anywhere that would require letting people see how I had let myself...

NAME : Dawn BEFORE WEIGHT : 293 AFTER WEIGHT : 155 POUNDS LOST : 138 WHEN DID YOU START DEVELOPING A WEIGHT PROBLEM? I’ve been overweight since kindergarten and something I thought I’d always be. Binge eating was…correction , IS my “illness”. When I was a kid I always begged for snacks and would cry when I didn’t get what I wanted. As I got older and was able to get any food I wanted, my weight spun upwards rapidly. I blew up to 293lbs because I’d binge on food daily. I’d eat not until I was satisfied but until...

After my first pregnancy I let myself go completely and gained more weight then I did when I was pregnant. When my son was 8 months old I got pregnant again. After giving birth to my second child I knew that I needed to do something. I’ve spent this year struggling to get healthy. NAME : Olivia BEFORE WEIGHT : 172 AFTER WEIGHT : 151 POUNDS LOST : 20   HOW DID YOUR WEIGHT AFFECT ANY ASPECT(S) OF YOUR LIFE? I think the biggest and scariest thing was that I couldn’t play with my kids, I was always so tired...