In answer to Strwbry SC's question, I had gotten off to a really good start and was looking forward to finally being able to have plastic surgery at the end of the road. I had several nice online friends cheering me on. Then the weight loss slowed and instead of taking only 1 year to get to goal, it was 2 years and I was almost, but not quite there. That made the thought of surgery even harder. Then my very best online friend stopped contacting me along with several others and I started to wonder why I was even bothering with all this. When those doubts crept in, I started having hit and miss results, one good week, one bad one. My weight started yo-yoing again and it was like i was standing in place. Haven't been able to get back on track since.