Growing up I was always a to skinny and always smaller than the other kids. When i graduated from HS in 1968 I weighed 127lbs . I married my HS sweetheart which still is my sweetheart and begin to put on the weight. By the mid seventies I had gained a small amount about 50lbs which looked OK because I was so skinny before, by the mid eighties I had blossomed to 250lbs this is when I begin YO-YO dieting. First it was Nutria-system lost fifty in six months and then in the next year gained that all beck plus twenty five. When the nineties hit my weight had soured to 300lbs and over the next 10 years I did several other weight plans to no avail. Then in 2000 I found the Atkins low crab and lost eighty pounds from 390 down to 310 lbs life was good and I was loosing. Then my wifes mother became ill and was dying and living in another state she went to be with her for three month before her death, and it happened I got sidetracked and had blossomed to my highest weight of 450. I have be doing the six month Doc. supervised diet and have brought that down to 420 my current. I am in the process of doing my research and probably be having the Gastric Lap-Band, I Have my Psych screening done on the 22 of Jan 2007 well see. One step at a time taking day by day I am in no hurry to rush into this without a lot of Prayer and research.