Nursing is such a great field so congats on making a decision to help people. we need more people like you in the world.

Just seeing how you were doing with the whole losing weight thing. I'm counting calories and trying not get over 2,000 a day and eating low cal, no fat things. My older sister introduced me to the zone perfect bars. They taste good and they keep you full longer than any other "diet" bar i've ever eaten. I think it kept me from being really hungry for like 2 hours. Just a suggestion. I eat one of those on my way to work in the morning and for lunch i eat what i want just measure out a cup of whatever i eat. For dinner i'll eat a HUGE HUGE salad with whatever i want on it. I drink coke zero once a day and then the rest is either vitamin water or snapple antioxidant water or just regular tap or bottle water. It's been helping me out so far. I've lost about 8 pounds in 4 days.

I need support too girl... we can do this though!!!!

When she hit 575 pounds, Tammey Burns tried to commit suicide. The attempt didn’t work, leaving the Missouri woman with no other choice but to finally lose the hundreds of pounds of fat that had robbed her of her life.

It took seven years and a journey deep within herself, but today the newest member of the Joy Fit Club weighs in at a trim 165 pounds.

Burns showed off her new figure and shared her story with Joy Fit Club founder Joy Bauer and TODAY’s Matt Lauer Monday in New York. To illustrate how much fat she lost, huge buckets filled with 410 pounds of lard were piled on risers on the stage. Next to them stood three TODAY interns — two women and one man who together weigh as much as Burns did before she lost all that weight.

A life of limits
“Food was my drug of choice,” the 50-year-old woman told Lauer and Bauer. It took the failed suicide attempt to force her to discover that.

At the time, the list of things Burns couldn’t do was endless. She couldn’t visit friends for fear she’d break any furniture she sat on. Couldn’t get in a car. Couldn’t go to the movies. Couldn’t attend to her own hygiene without help.

She couldn’t pick her foot up high enough to climb even one low step, couldn’t take more than two or three steps without gasping for breath. Just standing for more than a couple of minutes caused severe pain in her hips and back.

Even sleeping lying down was a near impossibility.

Burns was going through five liters of oxygen a day. She had hypertension, restrictive lung disease, sleep apnea, respiratory insufficiency, obesity hypoventilation syndrome, venous stasis insufficiency, diabetes. The right side of her enlarged heart was failing.

For years, Burns had tried every fad diet without success. But, she said, the secret to finally taking control of her body and her life came down to “working from within — from the inside out.”

She started by water-walking in the center’s therapy pool, and worked her way up to an exercise bike. Then Young challenged her to walk four days a week.

“My perspective on life is positive and healthy,” Burns wrote. “God is taking me on an amazing journey to give hope to others.

“I am preparing for my certifications as a personal trainer and wellness coach,” she added. “I am training to be competitive in race-walking events. I cannot imagine returning to my formal dismal state, because life is an amazing adventure ... if you let it be.”

“I don’t even know you, and I’m proud of you,” Lauer said with emotion. He asked Burns what advice she has for others who have despaired of ever losing massive amounts of weight.

“Quit the fad diets,” Burns replied. “Make it a healthy lifestyle change. Work on your emotional issues, and combine exercise with a healthy lifestyle change.

“And focus on your goals — not the struggle,” she concluded.

If your feeling like this, DONT WORRY!

Tomorrow is a NEW DAY, and a NEW BEGINNING.

Make the best of it! :)

Hi!  It's me Wonder Woman!  Just stopping by to wish all my buddies a great weekend!  Stay true to your weight loss goals!