Thanks everyone for your replies, yes i will continue with the way i eat for life, i was getting right fed up yesterday being on WW, and felt like giving up, it was so darn cold here and i was hungry,but now this has made me more determined to get to goal and keep it off, i have never been obese, but i need to shift those spare tyres around the middle, the late middle age spread, i call it lol, and i need to start an exercise programme that will work for me.

My dad is slightly overweight,(at 78 he still works full time in his own business and is pretty darn active ), and my mother is not, although she is carrying a lot of body fat around her middle, she has a thyroid condition and has been on medication for cancer which all contributed to this happening, but she actually only weighs 61 kgs,my sister probably could loose a few pounds but she is not what i class as being overweight by much at all.

I sure hope i am not genetically wired to getting it, i will do everything possible to keep it at bay, of course it is treatable and life goes on, but hey i would rather NOT have it, lots of complications that occur with having it, are the worst, like the slow healing,eyesight problems,just to mention but a few, i have enough going on with health issues, no more for me thanks very much.