aHello My Name is Linda - and I'm a Food-A-Holic! I was pretty much always a "chubby" girl... and then a fat girl... and then a girl that was skinny, then fat, then skinny then fat... AKA - YO-YO. At my highest - I weighed 302 pounds. I was 21 then. For more than 16 years, I was a practicing Bullemic. Sometimes I would have cycles where I would just binge once a week... other days it would be daily. And in my mind, there was only one way to "take care of" a binge. Another "great" way for me to lose weight was to get pregnant! Believe it or not!!! LOL!!! For what ever reason, when I was pregnant, my metabolism went into Hyper-Drive. With my daughter - although I looked like a giant blow fish (I was puffy all over) I only gained 5 pounds and gave birth to a 7 lbs 6 oz baby. When I left the hospital, I was down over 20 pounds. When I had my son... I weighed exactly the same the day I gave birth to him as the day I found out I was pregnant... he weighed 10 lbs 4 oz (and yes girls... that was a 100%, no chance for any drugs cause he came so fast, birth!!) - about a week after having him, I was down over 60 pounds from my starting weight. And both times after having my kids, my metabolism stayed like that for a year or so. I loved it. BOY DID I EAT!!! Well... that metabolism boost didn't last. The bullemia kicked in REALLY bad and when I was 30, my doctor told me that if I didn't stop, I wasn't going to live to see 32. I went to a therapist and a dietician... gained 15 pounds with the dietician... and everyone came to the conclusion that I was just always going to be overweight and I had to accept it. So I did. I weighed over 280 pounds then. In 1997 we moved to Des Moines Iowa from Manchester New Hampshire. Being removed from my favorite "comfort" foods and having to get accustomed to Midwest foods - I lost about 40 pounds over the course of 7 years. I didn't really try to loose it... it just kinda happend. In 1998 I was dia

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