Welcome to my blog!  This is my first attempt at creating an ongoing chronicle of my weight loss odyssey, and I hope it will capture your interest.  I have been wresling with my weight my entire life, it seems, and I have had periods at just about every weight range, yo-yo'ing up and down over months or years.  I was at my lowest weight when I was 28, just before I got pregnant, and since then it has been a slow and steady climb up the scale.  Certain events in my life definitely exacerbated the problem, and since my life imploded four years ago, I have become by far the heaviest I've ever been.  It's frightening to life at this level, and I want desperately to change.  I have to.  I cannot live the rest of my life this unhappy.