hi my name is lynnette and i am trying to lose fifty pounds. two years aga i went on south beach and i lost 23 pounds. i kept it off for about a yeat and then i went to beauty school and was working and a full on single mom. after school and work i was just to tired to cook so i ate alot of fast food and take out and packed on fifty pounds in like six months. I will never do that again. i started my diet on jan 7 when the town i live in started a biggest loser contest. my team has lost 46 pounds all together and we are in fourty place. i have given myself untill june to lose the fifty. so far so good. i eat all phase two and work out abut an hour four days a week. Still have my girls nights on sat with lots of dancing and more drinking than i should be doing. so far so good. lets just see how long it takes to get these last 28 pounds off