Hi Im Patty,Im 44 will be 45 may 13,I kind of feel old right now.Im married ,have been a long time.I have three grown kids. When I started weight watchers 1/9/07 I weighed 249.2 Im 5'2 .I have not always been heavy.I might have thought i was at the time but now i know different.I weighed 101 lbs when i got married.The biggest i ever got when i was 9 months pregnant with any one of the three kids was 129 lbs. Until about 8 years ago i weighed 115 lbs.I started having heart problems and it made exercising very difficult.I have mitro valve prolapse.Which is not suppose to be serious.But I have all the symtoms off of it.Heart racing,skipping beats and feeling like my heart is flipping over in my chest.Its terrible.Im on medicine for the symtoms but it isnt working anymore ,so im going back to the heart specialist this month .After i went on the medicine i gained 40 lbs the first year and 60 the next year.There was nothing i could do to keep the weight off.It was very depressing.I now know after i went to my regular doctor that i have a thyroid problem.I guess thats why i couldnt lose weight after i went to weight watchers last year.I finally just gave up and quit.But this year im trying again.I really need to do this for my health.Im mostly happy with my progress.Im very busy .I work most days at least 10 hour days.I eat out alot.I try to eat things that will help me lose weight.I hope you will watch me lose alot of weight.Check out my before and during pictures so far.I can tell a difference .plz sign my guess book , Patty