Hello my name is Jackie Ladner,today is June 14th, 2009, I have been on this weight loss journey for 37 years, I have been overweight practically since I was born, all the way through elementary school till early middle school and I struggled on and off through my teenage years losing and gaining, through several major events in my life, I gained a whole lot of weight, and had gastric bypass in 1999, I lost over 200 pounds, and kept it off for over a year or more, then I married the love of my life, we had a blissful 18 mos of marriage and he passed away, so turning again to food, emotional food, emotional baggage, my life was spinning out of control, and little by little I gained the weight back, I have tried many different venues to lose the weight only to give up and quitting. I am bound and determined to get to the root of why I eat, why I have gained so much weight, and to solve this addiction that I have been battling my whole life.