This wasn’t even the heaviest that I have ever weighed. I knew I had to do something. I had to find a plan that worked for me to make the necessary lifestyle changes. The support I found at meetings was exactly what I needed most. I couldn’t lose the weight on my own and the encouragement from my TOPS chapter friends kept me going.

At my first TOPS weigh in, the center’s scale couldn’t measure my weight because the limit was 350 pounds. I had to go to the hospital and use their scale. I will never forget the first night I had finally lost enough weight to be able to use the scale at the center. This was one of the happiest moments of my life. I even did a little dance celebrating my first steps on the road to measuring my weight loss. I was finally on the right track to making healthier choices and a thinner me.