I've decided to share with you my experience with weight loss. I am grossly overweight. More like obese. I admit it. Am I proud of it? No. Am I happy that I am endangering my health by remaining this heavy? No. But sometimes, weight loss can be a tricky, some times dangerous thing, even when you need to lose the weight.

I started out by using Slim Fast. Don't get me wrong. Slim Fast is a great product, and if it works for someone else, that's great. It worked for me too, but then I decided to see if I couldn't do it on my own. So I quit drinking the Slim Fast. I am not going to sit here and tell you that I immediately gained the seven pounds I lost while on the Slim Fast back, because I didn't. I quit the Slim Fast and started doing the eat less, drink more water, & exercise bit. And it worked. But it also caused problems.

When talking to my doctor, as you should prior to starting any weight loss plan, he told me that I should only lose about 10% of my current body weight at once. Let my body adjust to the lower weight, then start working towards losing 10% of my new weight. Fine. I had lost about 5% of my weight at that time, and began to experience medical problems that to this day have not been corrected. My doctor couldn't understand it.

I would like to say to all of you, if you need to lose weight, please....try to get your doctor to monitor your progress. Tell him about anything out of the ordinary that may happen while you are on your weight loss program. It could save you a lot of heartache in the long run. Medical problems and conditions can begin when you lose weight, and although 10% is the generally recommended amount of weight to lose at one time, I now believe that everyone's level of what they should lose is different.

My new doctor recently suggested I try the Slim Fast program again. I told him what happened before and he stated that he believed that my problems were caused by being overweight, not by losing weight. So I am trying the Slim Fast program again. I seem to be doing well. I do not have a scale with which to weigh myself, I will let my doctor weigh me. :o)