My bio ...
I've always struggled with my weight.
My thinnest adult weight when I was young was 189, when I started college at 20 -- but I was working out three times a week and following a low fat diet (early '90s). I was also bulimic.
At age 27, after going to my GP to beg for phen/fen, he reluctantly agreed, buy first did some blood tests, and discovered I had an underactive thyroid. I took my thyroid mess for a while, and then for some inexplicable reason, STOPPED. I gained weight, a lot of weight (in the last decade I have finally come to understand that when I stop the synthroid, I gain weight -- I'm a slow learner).
By 2001, I was Super Morbidly Obese, had developed Sleep Apnea, which I ignored for a year. I finally went to my GP, to ask him for a referral for a sleep study, and he CASUALLY said to me "Have you ever thought about weight loss surgery?" ... And it was like a light bulb went off!!
I started researching doctors, procedures, worked at getting health insurance, and found a few doctors and had a few consults.
I discovered Spotlight Health, a WLS forum where I made a lot of friends.
I settled on a doctor, and went through nearly a year of waiting, until I had open RNY Gastric Bypass on 1/7/03.

297 pounds -- 2002 -- Heaviest weight in my lifetime, at WLS consult
284 pounds -- 2003 -- Pre-op weight/day of surgery
165ish pounds -- weight range from 2004-2009
I hit around 150-155, in Spring 2009, but I was on heavy painkillers & between ortho surgeries.
By the Fall of 2009, I was on crutches and my weight went up to around 190. Huge weight fluctuation that year. I continued to gain ...

2011 -- struggled to get to 199. Short-lived
2012 -- 221 POUNDS!!!! Highest weight since gastric bypass
2013-2014 -- fluctuated up and down between 205-2017

In March 2014, fed up, my boyfriend and I started Atkins. I was 213 lbs when I started, and joined this site about a month later.