One year on, 90 pounds lost, 25 to 40 pounds left to go. One year on, 90 pounds lost, 25 to 40 pounds left to go.
One year on, 90 pounds lost, 25 to 4... 
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I said I would do an update after a year. This was me when I was 118Kg - 260 pounds. I was this weight on November 14th 2007, although the photo was taken before that date.
And this was a photo of me a few months ago, I don't look that much different now apart from a 2 inch drop around the waist...
I lost around 90 pounds in a year by water fasting. On November 14th 2008 I was around 170 pounds.
For me fasting was easy, but I really was overweight and pretty well nourished at the start. Apart from a few headaches and aching legs now and then, I can't say I had many problems at all. My fasts have been 7 - 27 days long, though now I prefer 10 day ones maximum. I kept the rate of weight loss slow towards the end, and now, at BMI 27, I am considering perhaps completing the journey by healthy eating alone, though I may do one last fast in the run-up to Christmas just to help closer to BMI 25, the top of the normal healthy weight range.
Fasting has taught me the value of healthy eating, and I know I need to change my lifestyle as well to get the most out of it, i.e. gym and so on. If anything I could feel a bit sorry for letting myself get into that state in the first place, what's the point, I need to get on with life.
Good luck to you whoever you are, pls choose what's best for you, in some cases it seems it has to start with the mind and not with losing weight.
Sounds like you have the kind of job I want, hmmm. Mind you I would probably end up as unconventional as Jack Nicholson in One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest, Robin Williams in Patch Adams or Joanne Whalley in Breathtaking (you probably don't know that one). And if someone was telling me "I hate myself, I am a failure", I would need a good pair of headphones and an ipod, or some means of changing the conversation, e.g. "Oh look, is that Brad Pitt over there?"
You are going to have an interesting time though, giving up smoking tends to make you put on weight, but I think you should try that at the same time or before. I used acupuncture, see http://curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=1186991#i - maybe try this first? Although they do say that fasting makes you want to give up smoking too. But the acupuncture feels as though you had never smoked, it's weird!
Anyway good luck Willow, be interesting to see how you cope with the two things, smoking and weight loss. I am sure you will though... 
Oh and I fixed your duplicate message, see your email, ha ha
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