I'm 56 years old, own my own business and am involved in a variety of professional organizations.

Have been fighting the good fight my entire life. Chubby child, chubby teen, chubby adult! Finally graduated from chubby to FAT. It was time to do something about it. Started a diet plan last year which has been fairly successful and recently stumbled upon FatSecret and thought the whole concept was exactly what I needed to keep up with the program.

I'm a type 2 diabetic with all the usual associations; high blood pressure, high cholesterol etc. I've recently been diagnosed with IBS and now have to cut out most of the foods I've been eating on my plan. Very frustrating, but I'll figure it out.

Would love to have a buddy or two or ten ...