"I was overweight my entire life. Hit the 200lb mark in high school, and by college shot up to over 300lbs. I was always a fun, outgoing individual - but I was very self-conscious. I let my weight hold me back from so many things - I knew I had a lot of potential and desire - but let my weight get in the way. I loved food, I loved to eat, go out to eat, just over ate in general.

When I would get down on myself I tried starving myself, but then would binge eat which made everything worse. I took numerous over the counter, celebrity endorsed diet pills, nothing worked.

I then heard of phentermine, and gave it a try. I decided if I was going to finally make a change I would do it right this time - so I ate healthy, began a 30minute a day 5 days a week gym routine and the weight started to fly off.

I stopped taking the pills for a while.... The weight loss slowed down a lot... I got back on the pills and I started losing quickly again. I started at 303lbs and now weight 165lbs - and I've never been happier!"

"I've always had problems with my weight. I would start a new diet, lose weight then gain it all back. It was impossible for me to maintain what I lost. Even though in my mind I thought I wanted to lose weight emotionally and physically, I wasn't really ready to lose the weight.

Until one day it just clicked. I cracked down on what I ate. I stuck to a low calorie diet. I checked labels for EVERYTHING. Carbs, fat, calories you know it, I checked it. I drank half my weight in water everyday and I worked out 5-7 days a week to Richard Simmons (people always laughed at this but, it works - he is amazing).

As I lost more and more weight, I started eating different things. I started adding pizza in my diet and a couple of nights a week, would do turkey spaghetti so my body wouldn't get used to the same foods. It was definetly the hardest thing I have ever done but, it was so worth it and, now after fighting so hard to be happy, I will never let myself go back to what I used to be like."