Welcome to the forum. I am glad you found us.

I was never part of the size acceptance movement, but I gave up on dieting ten years ago and decided to be fat but fit -- I am a lap swimmer and my weight did not interfere with that. However, I'm 45-years-old and my weight was starting to cause me problems -- back problems, knee problems, blood pressure problems, etc. Also, I had reached the same point as Redawn -- 3x clothes were too small and I was having trouble finding anything to wear. I didn't know what to do, because I knew that low fat, low calorie diets did not work for me, until I read an article about low carbing last summer. Low carbing has been great for me -- I'm never hungry and I am slowly, but steadily losing weight. My back and knees no longer hurt and my blood pressure is back in the middle of the normal range. I'm not trying to get skinny -- my goal weight is 175 and I am 5'9-1/2" tall -- but I know that I need to lose more weight to continue to improve my health.