Hi, I'm new here. I came across this site a while back actually, then got distracted by other things and just recently found it again, so I figured I'd register now.
A little about me, bear with me. I'm 37, and have been overweight my entire life. About 6-7 years ago, I was diagnosed with anxiety and depression. In the process of getting the anxiety diagnosis, it was discovered I am a type 2 diabetic as well as having some blood pressure issues. So I was given meds to help control all these.
Back in 2009, for some reason or another, I decided I'd had enough of taking medications, so I just completely stopped taking everything. At this time, my highest weight was 338. By fall of 2010, I had dropped to about 270 without much effort at all. My doctor and I figured one of my meds was the cause of the gain, and when I stopped taking them, the weight just fell off. Dr. gave me the all clear to stay off the anxiety and blood pressure meds, but my diabetes wasn't in a good place, so he gave me a different med for that.
Due to circumstances late last year, I ended up having to go back on my anxiety meds, anxiety is still giving me a lot of problems, but that's a whole other story. But the anxiety/stress is probably why I've dropped down to the 245 lbs I am currently. I definitely love seeing the number on the scale go down. I haven't been at this weight for such a long time (270-290 is where I spent years). I can definitely see a big difference between now and 1 year ago.
So I'm hoping that once I get my anxiety under control (as right now it's just dibilitating), I can focus on really changing my lifestyle and exercizing properly and eating right to help get down even further to a healthy weight.
And I'm hoping that this is a good place to start, with people who are also going on this same journey. (Sorry, such a long intro..lol)