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I am a fat girl. A really fat girl. Well, I'm actually a 25 year old woman with a serious weight problem. When I last weighed, I was 27 stone 1 pound. That was last Thursday (8th July 2006).

Yesterday I started my 168th diet. "168th!!" I hear you shout. "But your only 25!?!". Yes, but I haver been overweight all my life. ALL MY LIFE!!. I remember when I was young, about 6 I think, and my Mum had to go to the doctors. We were stood in the reception and my mum was chatting away to the receptionist about me. I was wearing this scarlet jumper which had a knitted dog on the front with a little metal tag. My Mum was concerned that I was too fat. The receptionist said I would grow out of it. I never have. And that was pretty much the beginning of my weight problem, and my obssession with it.

Since then I have tried an abundance of diets, all of which have either not worked, I have given up, or have damaged my health. I have done Slimming World, Rosemary Conley, Weight Watches, Slim Fast, LighterLife, The Cabbage Soup Diet, detoxes, exercise, and even lost six stone by starving myself and throwing up.

What makes this one different? Me. I want it so badly. Not because I think it will make me a better person, or make my life any better, but because I know it's what I need to do.