It's been interesting to see all the photos of the many people of this great forum, some of you looked as I expected and many more of you looked nothing like I had imagined!
Having not posted a photo of myself in this thread since I first started it in 2005 I finally plucked up the courage to post one again, so here's where it all began;
One of the largest reasons for not posting anything of myself since then has to have been my twin problems of obesity and acne which probably grew out of each other but anyway, here's how I looked at the beginning of 2009;
Not a pretty sight I'm sure everyone (everyone!) would agree

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Around the tail end of November 2009 I realised I needed to do something major and do it quickly before it became a problem too big to overcome on my own, with that set in my mind I made efforts to re-jig my lifestyle, the food I ate and to a larger extend my sedentary lifestyle had to go, it was actually much less of a challenge than I had thought and here's how I looked a month or so ago;
I've lost around 80lbs and feel so much better for it. it just goes to show that, at least in my case, the problem was all in my head, I hope never (and indeed I'll do all I can to achieve this) to be above a natural weight for my height and build again.