I am a 38 year old mom of three wonderful daughters, ages 18, 11, and 7! Very proud of my girls! I am married to a great man, Pat. We live in Lisbon, Ohio. We have 5 dogs and 3 cats. We love our animals. I am currently a phlebotomy student with about 2 more months before I take my certification. I like what I am learning! In 2000 I had the gastric bypass surgery, lossing 40 pounds in 40 months. then I found out I was pregnant, lossing only about 6 pounds in the next 4.5 months before lossing my baby. for 4 more months I would not loss anythng, then I found out I was pregnant again this time carring our third daughter to full term with no complications. The prevous loss was not due to the surgery. After our daughter was born I could not loss any more weight, she was born 2002 so I think I had "hit" the spot where GB patients slow or quit. So I turned to Dr Atkins book~ It was the old book all yellow and written though out that my mom had used YEARS before. I used that and my weight droped about 1 lb every other day. Loved it. in total I lost 116 lbs. But through chains of events in life, deaths, hystorectomy, quit smoking, loss of our house to a fire, more deaths, and pleanty of back to back surgeries I have regained 70+ pounds! So here I am , short of breath, feeling like a rolly polly nearing the age of 40 and wanting to get some controll again! Plus beig asked when I was due just recently really made me think! So round two with atkins at least low carbing it!