Even though I have many reasons and incidents throughout my 43 years of life which have made me want to lose weight, one that I can clearly remember in the past 2 years was...

I was traveling for business and getting into my seat on a plane. I was about at my heaviest weight in the near past, around 270 I guess. I struggled for about 5 minutes to try to get that seat belt fastened. I kept shifting my position slightly, sucking in my stomach, but still struggled. I was trying to be very stealthy and slow about it so nobody would notice. But I bet someone did, because I was in the aisle seat. After the first minute I was sweating and almost panicking. I did NOT want to ask for a belt extender but I was trying to catch the eye of a flight attendant to ask for one just in case. In those moments I felt so ashamed and disgusted with myself for letting my body get that far out of shape.

I FINALLY got it to fasten, but it was VERY tight throughout the flight. I told myself I would not get up to use the bathroom because I didn't want to go through that again.

On my summer family vacation last month I easily closed the seat belt and had about 5" of slack left over. It felt GREAT!