Welllllll....I started using this site/app in 2011 for my own tracking without appreciating the many other support features. I was overweight :( but...wanted to improve by losing weight and living healthy. Then, one day, after a session of intense tennis, having been a professional moons earlier and forgetting that many many moons had passed since then, I damaged a knee. Two operations later, and with over 2 years of rehab, during that entire time, I ceased any attention to this app and my weight also.

Recently, following that interval of mental and physical "walk-about", I "blossomed" to even a much higher "start weight" then in 2011, when, Father Time, decided to approach me and started tapping on my door, with a diagnosis of diabetes 2.

I answered that door and told my visitor - no way , José.

So starting at 265 lbs !!!! at 5'11" in mid May 2014, I have challenged myself to get to it! Today, I am well - and also well into progress - down to 235 lbs in one month of attention. I am determined I am going to make my way to break 200 lbs, by July's end. Nothing crazy - but daily cal counting between 1100 & 1900 coupled with daily modest physical activity/work outs of various sorts, including every day or so, happily resuming a semblance of tennis, for the very first time in 2.5 years.

I also have learned with resuming my use of this site, about the social support and friendship making aspects of its offerings. I am hopeful to make good use of them. It would be inspirational to me to make some friends through here and, perhaps, help others to laugh and enjoy together our living efforts to get it right...and.... maybe, meet a nice single woman, who could be interested in befriending a nice single man and former tennis player :) !!!!

Hope to hear from others - best, Thomas