of a year and half!) and my puppy, Maggie. I am a full-time graduate student and will graduate with my Master's Degree in December 
I gained a bunch of weight in summer of 2007 due to a medication that I was on- only briefly- but it really messed up my weight. Prior to this I had been on diet and was seeing great results. See, we were going to Las Vegas, so I wanted to lose some weight. I weight about 185 and wanted to weight 170 prior to the trip. I was on my way-- and then I got sick with an infection in my stomach and intestines. It was horrible I barely ate, but with the medication, anything I did eat ballooned me up.
So here I sit at 200 and am just sick of it. I like to read up on things, and really plan them out. The extreme fat smash diet seems great to me. I am starting on Monday (so there are no double workouts during the week... I think) and am excited. I am looking to weigh 149 which made me a size 6 back in the day. I am currently a 14/15 in jeans. Ultimately I just don't feel comfortable. I feel so overweight for my liking that it grosses me out.
I have a great husband who is super supportive. Though he says I am "fine the way" I am... I know that I will feel fine when the scale is much lower. I am hoping to lose 30 lbs by July of 2008, that seems realistic enough to me for now... that is just short term, as I would like to have 51 lbs gone by this time next year.
With that being said- there you go. Hopefully this works out well... I guess like everyone else in the world i need encouragement and friends who are going through this too.
losing 30 pounds by July (4months) seems pretty reasonable to me. Im aiming for about 30 pounds by the beginning of summer too. 
