About me: my name is marisa i am 20 years old and i weigh 426lbs and by the end of this year hopefully i will be down in the 250lbs range i know it will be hard but i am not giving up i hate having bad jeans obesity ran on both my mom and dads side but they werent overweight there siblings were my mom was so skinny and i was 380lbs when my mom died in a horrible accident someone under the influence ran her off the road she died pined under a vechicle and it cased me to go into shock she was like my best friend and she died when i was 16 at 33 years old! i just wanted to die that is how i felt at the time i didnt care what i ate the first 4 days of her death i didnt eat at all i just let myself go and when i did eat again i ate all bad foods and didnt even know i was getting bigger... i have learned to cope with it since than and i feel great i eat right 1800 cals a day just getting rid of all the weight is the problem i have to find a way to burn 3800 cals daily and it is hard to do