I have been having weight challenges all my life. I started using food as a drug to comfort myself as a young child and continue to develop a binge eating disorder. I found 12 Step Recovery and stopped the emotional eating and binge eating but was unable to lose weight. For the past 20 years I have chosen to eat high nutrition foods and exercise but my weight didn't go any lower (high was 165 and I am only 5' tall).
In the fall of 2009 I discovered a weight loss wellness center in Tucson and lost 30 pounds through diet and using a blue light on my meridians. Then I stopped losing and stayed around 135 for five or six months.
I began the HCG protocol (using homeopathic sublingual drops) in July and dropped 14 pounds. I wanted to get to 120 but I needed to stop at 122 to go on maintenance since I was going out of town.
I thought the HCG protocol was much easier to do than I expected and now that I found fatsecret.com I can track my food and exercise!
I wrote a book: EATING MY HEART OUT: Confessions and Recovery of a Closet Eater and I am currently re-writing it, FREEDOM FROM EMOTIONAL EATING: 21 Days to a New You!