I was skinny early, then fat in middle school, rail thin in high school, then I got a hypothyroid problem around 1997 (when I was 30) and put on 100lbs almost overnight; spent the next 20 years around that wieght (6' 3", 300lbs), then had some strange symptoms in 2013 that were diagnosed lyme disease, then carbon monoxide poisoning, then possibly prediabetic, all of which woke me up and forced me to change my diet and start more concentrated exercise. It's been a few years now and I've lost some weight and started to recover from the CM poisoning, but more's a needed. I'm thinking of going vegetarian or at least mostly vegetarian. I'm also trying to make all my own food both for health and cost. I've got two out of three meals down. Things have been slow, and the many mentions here of depression getting in the way has also been my problem.
Good luck in your weight loss. It's a matter of finding the healthy lifestyle that you can live with. It's also about changing habits and tastes. I just started replacing pretzel snacks with vegetables. I feel I have to develop a taste for vegetables which I currently find bland and uninteresting.
