I’ve had weight issues almost all of my life. When I was a kid I was really skinny and my mom thought I needed to be fattened up. After her success I’ve bounced around. Right now I am about 70 or 75 pounds less than my heaviest. That was a series of bounces too. I lost about 70 pounds with a variety of strategies. I tried vegetarianism, only doing treats with really special things, ie no junk food and various form of low carb diets. All worked soom because I think the act of watching what you eat helps in general. I think the very low carb worked best.

Then I was prescribed high doses of a drug notorious for causing weight gain. I gained 20 pounds and my doctor said he was amazed it was so little.

Then I got really sick. I was in a hospital or rehab center for about 4 months. I lost 80 pounds but was also so weak I couldn’t walk. And I gained about 80 pounds back and started back to work, walking and so forth. So I’m back on the dieting with guidance from a doctor. She said one of the meds I was on, not the one before, could lead to weight gain so she cut it in half and I got rid of it completely. She also upped my proteins and I’m not eating dinner most days. Just breakfast and lunch and fairly low carbs. And I’ve lost about 20 or 25 pounds. So it continues.