What made me want to lose weight was that I no longer wanted to be depressed because my fatness, and I could no longer handle my severe back pain. I have a condition in my lower back (spinal stenosis), arthritis, and hernias. All of this makes me so uncomfortable and being as overweight as I was, the discomfort was tripled. I could not exercise, and it was even hard to get up sometimes. During one of my doctor’s visits, my doctor was honest with me and said, “ If you want to be cured of all your pain, it is imperative that you lose all of the weight your body is carrying.” I wanted to seek another opinion about my sickness, so I visited a surgeon that told me, “ I have officially broken the record with you. You are the youngest patient I’ve treated with this condition, and if you want to get better without an operation, you need to lose weight. If you don’t, you will need an operation, physical therapy, and you will need to get an epidural injection every 6 months.”