Thanks for the wonderfully motivating story.

I too am going around visualizing myself at 180# doing all the things I simply can't do at my weight - and drooling as I visualize doing most of them within the next year.

One of the many things I want to do is skydiving. I called a couple of places a few (twelve?!?!) years ago and they said that the weight limit was 250#. I pointed out that they drop tanks out of airplanes, but that didn't seem to change their answer any.