Long story very short - Put on weight when I was carrying my children (had twins), went from 12st to 16st during the pregnancy, managed to lose back down to 14st after they were born then spent the next 18 years putting it back on and then some. I had my first godawful moment, I think it was about six years ago, when I was invited to a surprise 40th for an old friend of mine. Stupidly I went and she didn't have a clue who I was and when she finally recognised me she was visibly disgusted, although she hid it well. I went home and spent an hour crying inconsolably on my driveway. This led to me doing a VLCD, Lipotrim, and I lost 3.5st in as many months. Rather than sticking with it until I had got back to my healthy weight I stopped it because we were going on an 'all inclusive' holiday (which had been booked before I started). When I came back from that holiday I could NOT get back on the program and so that brings me to date when I am now (in my mirror) a revoltingly huge 21st+ with a rather bigger task than I should have to get back to a weight I will be happy with - whatever the hell that weight is
Actually that wasn't all that short was it - sorry