NEW BIO: I am 56 years old and I've been following a LC/HF way of eating for a little over a year now. In that time, I've lost over 80lbs and gained a totally new perspective on life. I can honestly say that nearly every aspect of my life has been affected by shifting from morbidly obese with zero concern for my health to a new, slimmer, more energetic version. I will NEVER go back to being that heavy again, and I know this because I know what it took to get from there to here and I will not tread that path again.

OLD BIO: I am 55 years old and I grew up in a home where my Mom was constantly dieting (Weight Watchers for many many years) and was alternately thin and fat, back and forth, my whole childhood. I grew up to the be same way, always on a diet (or given up and was just a careless eating machine) and always overweight. The few times I did attain a good body-weight, I was so nervous to be there that I'd start eating and plump right back up ASAP. Then I went through a phase of "accept me for who I am." That worked okay for me for awhile, but the true fact, once I got honest with myself, was that no one should accept what I had become. I had let myself go and "acceptance" was just my excuse for not giving up very bad eating habits. I began to sink deep into depression for all the things I was missing in my life. Then the light came on. Duh! I don't have to be missing out. I don't have to "accept" me the way I am, I can CHANGE me. So here I am...on the road to change.