holy crap! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

[RidgeRunner]

Well, I am here to tell you if you loose a bunch of weight and exercise you have a chance to control your diabetes. I went from 3 insulin shots a day to zero medicine necessary. BUT, I have nearly starved, literally.

Never had stones to pass thankfully.. Hang in there.

[charlie_the_tuna]

well, I sure do have a bunch of weight to lose and as we all know, that's a piece of cake. way I see it i'm around 100 pounds overweight. if I get to 200 i'm glistening. be happy if I can get down to 235. time to sh!t or get off the pot.

[spareparts]

I'm with you Charlie, I'm at 235 and I need to be 185. My back tells me this every day, find us a beer diet, I can handle that

[THEFERMANATOR]

I let myself get up to 315 last year, got myself back down to 240, but went back up some. Scared to get back on a scale to see how much I put back on. I wish I could get back down to 210 or so.

[Destroyer]

I was at 215 when I started to have problems with my ticker. I'm now at 189 and my bp is better than it's been in a while. I still have a ways to go to hit my goal of 175, but I'm getting there.

And a word of warning to everyone... if you have high blood pressure DO NOT neglect it. That sh!t will kill you quickly. Took my healthy heart and put me into heart failure mode in less than 3 years. Uncontrolled hypertension (high blood pressure) is one of those "silent" killers.. you never think about it till you're in the hospital fighting for your life. Just something to think about.