This is me when I first began my weight loss journey. The blouse was a 3X and my pants were a size 20! I have never been this large, even when I was pregnant with my son who weighed 12 lbs., 6 ozs. and was 24" when he was born!

I started my low calorie diet with http://affordablehcgdiet.com/ at an all-time high weight of 248 pounds on my 5'7" body. I was on an insulin pump for my type 2 diabetes. I had out-of-control high blood pressure, sleep apnea and no energy.

I was at the lowest point in my self esteem from what I was doing to myself through my carb addiction. I didn't think I could lose the weight, EVER! I had donated all of my thinner clothes.

Thanks to my new friend Martha B., I was told about this diet that has been the best diet thing that has ever happened to me!

This picture was taken two months later in October 2011. I had lost 37.2 pounds and 21.5 inches. I sent the before and after pictures to my family, along with my weight and inch loss. My grandson, Dagan, sent me the following email, copied exactly as he wrote it:

"Mimi I saw your pic but Mimi your pic and mimi you look fine how you are no matter what you are still be my sweet Mimi no matter if you lose weight I will always love you as long as you live even when you die you will still be my sweet Mimi"

Dagan loves me no matter how big I got, but I didn't love me. He told his mom he liked me in the red also! Isn't that the sweetest thing?! I am now on my "weigh" to loving myself!