All of my life I have NOT been small. I was at 150 in high school-and considered the "fat ass" by all of the skinny girls! When I went to college to live on my own working 2 jobs and going to school- the pounds packed on. Those high calorie alcoholic drinks didn't help either. I topped off at 220! After trying everything to lose weight I finally attempted Weight Watchers with a friend-no meetings, just using all of her old materials, I got down to 178. Over a couple years I put some of that back on and when I got married I was at 195. Getting pregnant on my honeymoon helped assure that the weight would quickly return! With each of my 4 pregnancies I gained 20-25 pounds and only lost about half of that after they were over. My goal is to get back down to 170. Wish me luck!!