My family is my life.  I am extremely overweight and I need to lose 125lbs.  I will be happy losing less as long as I am healthy.  The number does not mean as much to me as does my health.  I want to live a long wonderful life with my family.  My knees have been disclocated mutiple times in the past when I was healthy and at the proper weight for my size.  Now the knee caps are not in the correct position and riding a bike and even walking makes them roll and they try to pop out of joint.  I need to lose weight before I can have surgery to tighten the inner thigh ligaments / muscles up, to pull the cap back to the correct position.  Once that happens I feel my life will be so much better.  I dream of the day that I will be able to walk with out the worry of my knee dislocating and the pain of it pulling everytime the joint moves just so.