Some encouragement for all the portly members...

My aunt Sue has never been under 300 pounds in my lifetime. Her weight has caused her numerous health problems; diabetes, arthritis, cardiac issues, she even had to get her knees replaced at some point. She is the youngest of my mother's siblings, somewhere in her mid-thirties, and we were all quite positive she would probably not make it past forty.

Without liposuction, after twenty something years of battling with her weight and it's complications, she has dropped almost all the weight and has slimmed down to about 170 pounds.

Here's the before and after pictures:

Before (She's the one on the left. Her daughter, my cousin, is on the right. She's still fat, and getting fatter. We're scared she'll fall into the same habits)


What she looks like now.

She pulled this off in less than a year. Human willpower can be amazing sometimes.