good job

I lost approximately 90 pounds in the last year. I see it as a transformation exercise.

I dropped 85 pounds in about six months back in early 2015 after finding out that I had to give up sucrose. There's a long story there, but I'm not diabetic. Being 6'5" and loosing that much wait didn't really register at first until all of my pants and shorts needed to be replaced. It isn't hard to keep it off thanks to the very little to no sugars I eat.

I lost 65 lbs a year after I graduated from high school that put me around 205-210. Went from 42" waist to 36" waist. Then I got into power lifting. Muscle is 5 times as dense as Fat. I weigh around 225-230lbs now and my waist is 38". I'm 6'1" and the "charts" say for my height I should weigh at most 191lbs. The only way I could do that is cut off a leg.

I've lost about 75 pounds because of illness. I hope to lose another 30.

I'm new here, looking to perhaps find a partner, in addition to friendships with like minded people.
I decided to be brave and just lay it all on the line after reading your post.
What I'm divulging is something that affects me deeply; both physically and emotionally. It affects how I see myself and how I interact with men. It stays with me every single day.
I used to weigh nearly 400 pounds. I've always been heavy and all my family was overweight. My sister, 10 years my senior, weighed in at 400 pounds at 5'5". I remember going out in public with her and seeing the way that general public reacted to her appearance. It was deplorable and I believe it affected the way I viewed myself and my own, lesser weight problem. I suppose I was conditioned at a young age to believe heavy people were inferior to those of normal weight. That wrong idea still haunts me. I'm certain it's why I let myself be treated like crap for half my life.
When I married, I weighed about 250 at 5'9". During the first years of marriage, two things happened. I had several babies all close in age and I discovered just how bad of an alcoholic my husband was. Gaining weight with my pregnancies coupled with severe depression over my marriage and my own self-loathing combined to help me blow up to 390 pounds. I believe, after countless hours of introspection, that I was trying to put a layer between myself and those outside sources of pain.
It worked. My husband grew disgusted with me and in addition to all the other hateful things he said and did, one thing has stuck with me to this day...that I didn't even look like a woman. For whatever reason, that statement tore a gash in my heart and in my self esteem that I don't know I'll ever recover from...not completely.
Long story short, after the messy, ugly divorce, I underwent gastric bypass surgery. I had high hopes of beauty and popularity! What I got was constant recurring illnesses and a body that looked like a battlefield. In between my many hospital stays and being so sick and miserable that left me wanting to end it all, I'd stand in front of my mirror and look at my ravaged body and just cry. For hours. For days...for years. Who could love this? Who would ever understand? Who wouldn't run in disgust as soon as they saw me? It was soul crushing.
I have skin issues that only a plastic surgeon could fix. But no way to make that happen.
It's been 10 years. I still have a very sensitive stomach and must be very careful about what, how much and how fast I can eat. That makes dating akward sometimes. Even so, every 6-8 months something happens to piss off my stomach and I either end up in bed for weeks or in the hospital. No doctor has been able to find out what's wrong or how to fix it. So I've had to learn to just soldier on and live as healthy a lifestyle as I can.
Despite all this, of course I wanted to find that special someone who would see the beautiful person I am and be able to deal with and overlook my physical appearance and annual illnesses. I was desperate for acceptance and companionship and so I screwed up my courage and started dating. I needed to feel I still "had it", that men would still find me attractive, that they would want to date me.
And they did. I'm passably pretty. I'm tall, have a great personality and look good in clothes. I learned to dress strategically, the right underwear, the right cut of clothing to enhance yet conceal. But when it came to sex, it was usually a disaster. I was so self conscious and uptight I could never really relax and enjoy myself because I always felt I was being judged for my appearance. I'm proud of my accomplishment. But after what I'd been through, I just couldn't stand to see the censure in another's eyes as they looked at what I've come to consider a deformity.
Do I tell a man I've had a gastric bypass? Do I admit I used to weigh 400 pounds? Do I tell them about the loose skin? Do I just shut my mouth and deal with their reaction when they see it? If I do tell them, when do I tell them? How do I tell them? Would they understand about my frequent bouts of illnesses? I'd tie myself into emotional knots worrying about it all. Have I mentioned it was soul-crushing? Well it is. But I am deserving of love. I think lonliness is borne largely out of expectations. And for myself, I had to learn to fill my life with things that gave me joy. Things that empowered me. And I have. Not every day is a good day. But most are. When I think about my body now, I don't let it defeat me. I can't. I take solace in the unconditional love of my children, of my family and friends who don't care how I look. I don't know if I will ever find that one special man that will accept and love me no matter my imperfections, especially when I am willing to do the same. But you know what? Once I became ok with me...It's not so important any more. I still struggle with self esteem. I still worry from time to time about how I'll handle it if I do meet someone I think could be special. I guess I'll cross that bridge if I come to it.
So thank you for your post. I'm very interested to see if there are others here who've been through similar ordeals.

Does anyone else wonder why people’s weights have increased so much in modern history? So many of the food choices are not made with healthy ingredients, are laced with hormones, antibiotics, sugar, salt, unhealthy fats, toxic herbicides and pesticides. I’ve been a vegetarian for 20 years and went vegan 2 years ago. Everything you put in your body affects something-so try to eat as clean as you can. I still eat chips and some desserts, just in moderation. Keep working on it, y’all.

in 1999 I went from 156 kgs to 95kgs (343pounds to 209) in about 5 months, each week I would buy a new set of clothes for work, tight, a week later they were too loose and I would do it again. Eventually I got it down to 92 (202) another 4 and I would have been technically underweight for my height. Body fat was down to 8%. I kept it off for about 7 years, since it has slowly come back. Steamed vegetables, 80 klm (50 mile) cycle before work each day, another 30 after work, followed by 15 klm walk into the night, weekends were surfing and roller blading Friday and Saturday nights. Motivation was a super hot girl at work who accepted me at my worst and I felt she deserved better. Pity she cheated on me after I had lost all the weight.

About 4 years ago I was just under 300 lbs. I started being more active and eating better. I've been hovering around 220 for the past 3 years. I doubt that I'll ever be skinny, but I feel good and I can keep up with my kids.

I lost 50 lbs when I was sick with leukemia and heart failure. Everyone said I looked emaciated at 119 ibs-I'm 5'5". I had been on steroids which had caused me to gain weight. Just saw my doctor before I left on vacation and she told me I looked the healthiest I have been in 6 years.

I've lost almost 100 lbs. in the last three years. A combination of illness and dietary changes. Before that, I'd weighed 300 lbs. and had been at that weight for three decades since ballooning up in my 20's. It's been an amazing transformation, both inside and out, and I'd like to continue to lose about another 50 lbs. I'll never be model-thin, I was always curvy even when I was young before gaining weight; even so, I always hated my body. Learning to appreciate myself even when I was heavy has ironically stopped me from going to food to sooth myself and thus the weight started to drop off. Lost about 50 lbs. already until I got diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma last year, and after treatment and remission I lost another 50 lbs... I feel like a different person, first time in decades.

Well...I’ve lost 65 pounds alone just from doing home workout dvds and eating right.

Honest about it? what will be the point if your mind does not change. Physical transformation is for the eyes... it is your brain where everything of real value is so if your mind not there.... your mind need to be there.

Congratulations on your successful plan! I went down 60 on WW and kept off most of it; but I wouldn't say it was a transformation..

Congratulations on achieving your goals! I got really skinny after a bad break up years ago. I started gaining weight after about two years. I ended up gaining too much. I started working out again and now I'm almost at my goal. (I miss having a 6 pack).