Congratulations! You should be answering questions -- not asking! Lots of people would love to know your secret for the weight loss.

Super Congratulations! I lose it, then find it... Genetics determine your skeleton and musculature; excercise and diet modify it. It's simple- usually, exercise with weights makes your muscles get bigger -- IF your genetics mean that. Genetically, I am a girl, but if I do weights, I bulk up - my brother looks like a tank from lifting. To avoid that, I do light weights and multiple weights-but still bulk. My freind is super strong, but is genetically designed for long rangy looking muscles. I read that fat cells are eternal (short of liposuction) it's just a matter of how much fat you store in 'em. Chromium picolinate will make you convert fat to muscle faster -- bodybuilders use it (me, too) . Study physiology and see what muscles are where, then exercise to make them bulky or lean by weights or reps, if possible. Ex: if you are genetically disposed to skinny calf muscles, you CAN bulk them up with weight exercises that focus on calf muscles. I do waist twists,reps, not weight, 'cause I like a tiny waist; and to avoid equestrian waist, where the women typically get thick waists from holding steady in the saddle (my opinion). Course, real cowboys are slender as a rule? So, hmm... well, go back to the genetics concept. Again, super congrats! YOU rock!

Thanks the answers so far. I just forced myself (at first) to cut back on calories. Instead of 2,200 a day I did 1,800. I couldn't go lower than 1,500 without getting headaches are my stomach yelling at me telling me to eat. So I made a list of foods that were both healthy and filling (for me at least) and would eat those foods from my list. I made sure I knew the calories in each item before hand (from boxes, the internet)I made an effort not to go over what I set. After like 4 months I was able to eat the foods and not feel hungry. I rarely went over what I set (which was between 1600-1800 for me). Here is what I ate: I ate some kind of beans (anything but refried beans or chili so mostly black/kidney beans) at either lunch or dinner, 3 containers of yogurt a day (nonfat or lowfat with less than 140 calories), chicken at dinner (frozen was too expensive so i went with 3 of Tyson's precooked chicken bags), I had multigrain cheerios for breakfast, a meal replacement bar (because I am always on the go), a handful of mixed nuts (little or not salt, pecans/walnuts/cashews/almonds), 3 cans of fruit cocktail a day, 1 cup frozen veggies (that i cooked in different sauces), 1 salad for either lunch or dinner, 2 squares of Lindt dark chocolate which equals about 30 calories (70% or more coca, it was hard to get use to because it was bitter, but the higher the coca the better it is for u, so i eliminated milk chocolate out of my diet), some strawberries, and lastly some avocado for good fats as well as whole grain/wheat crackers to snack on. I tweak it each week but it has been good to me. I just dont have the time to exercise and thats the problem but i am enrolling into a fitness class (like a gym membership to use equipment) so i hope this helps me out...but thanks for your input