Me (Dianne) with my daughter Ariana - July 2008

This is a photograph of my daughter Ariana and I at a summer graduation for Yale Medical School. I was working for one of the Med School offices and was invited to their graduation ceremony. I brought my daughter along because my hubby had to work. We are both showing signs of bad eating habits - at least I think so. I see this photo and I want to cry - my poor daughter was falling victim to the same negative habits that I had and that I was fighting with.

I think in this picture I was close to my highest weight ever. When I weighed in the day of surgery, I was at 265 lbs. NEVER AGAIN!