My name is Tarra Young and I am on a mission to once again save my life.  To give you a little background on me, at my highest weight I weighed 759 pounds.  I went on Medifast back in 2006 and lost my first 100 pounds in my first three months on the plan, so I know if I put my mind to it I can do it again.

After losing all my weight (I lost a total of 429 pounds) I had to fight to with my insurance to get the approval to have all the excess skin removed.  I had so much excess skin it was hard to move (it wasn't that I didn't workout, because I did - I worked out doing cardio and strength training several hours a day, seven days a week, plus I did a lot of walking daily at the mall near my house). 

For awhile I did maintain my weight, but then it started coming back on and fast.  I gained my first 100 pounds in less than a month. I was in a very dark place in life and started hiding away from all my supporters online because I felt like a failure.  No matter what I did my weight kept going up.  I went to the doctor I had at the time and I would beg and plead for help because I was hardly eating in desperation to stop the weight gain just to be told there was nothing they could do for me.  Then after I gained the weight back I had the nursse practitioner in his office tell me, "There's nothing wrong with you.  You're just fat", and she said it in a very rude tone.

I am happy to say I have a new doctor now who took the time to run tests to find out why I had gained so much weight back and so fast.  I found out I have some digestive issues along with h pylori and once of the symptoms of it is weight gain.  I have been treated for it and it is now a thing of the past.

The only thing that has been stopping me from weight loss now is depression and fear, (I should point out that I have thought about seeing a therapist to get past all this, but my insurance through the state of California does not cover that and I don't have the money to cover it and my diet too) which is why I set up this challenge to fight my way past all that and I am doing it publicly in order to be held accountable.  I have made several attempts to do this on my own, but have failed.  This time I do not plan on failing.  I am going to do this.  When the 90 days are up, I am going to keep going.  I am using these 90 days to give myself as a launching pad to motivate me to keep going, not only by how much weight I will have lost at the end of the 90 days, but also by how good I know I am going to feel once I make it through the first 90 days.

I have no way of weighing right now because 1) I am completely bed ridden and 2) my scales won't weigh me at the weight I am now.  They go up to 550 pounds and stop there.  Last year in November when I went to see my doctor I weighed 626 pounds and I was on Medifast at that time.  But then the holidays came and life happened and I put on a lot of weight.  I am guessing my weight at this time is about 680 pounds.  If at the end of this challenge if I am unable to weigh here at my house I will make an appointment, go see my doctor and get an official weight there.

Why Medifast?

I know some of you may be wondering why I am choosing Medifast.  Not only is it the diet I found success on in the past, I know my chances of succeeding with it now are higher than with any other diet or weight loss plan out there.  You may also be wondering why I can't do this with REAL FOOD.  I have tried that and it doesn't work for me.  On Weight Watchers I gain and my doctor says it is because I can't move like most people to burn off the calories, so on them I am literally eating myself to death, which is suicide.  I only lose weight if I eat below 1000 calories due to my lack of movement.  I have tried just counting calories, but I get extremely sick and I am constantly hungery, so it isn't something I can stick to for the long haul like I need to in order to the several hundred pounds I need to lose.  With Medifast I am eating six small meals a day that are the right amount of carbs/proteins and has a lot of nutrients in it that I wouldn't get by just cutting my calories down below a thousand with real food, so I never get sick or feel hungry. 

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