Where do I begin. My name is Ben and I have been dealing with my weight my entire life. Right now I weigh 489 lbs at 6 foot. Those who deal with obesity may relate to my struggle. It offends me when people who weigh 200 lbs worry about thier weight. I would love to be 200 lbs. As a child I grew up on a farm in Arizona. Both my parents were large people. When I was very young I talked to the cows on our farm. I picked up a very small piece of cow feces & played with it for a while, &, for reasons I cannot possibly comprehend, I put it in my mouth, chewed it & swallowed it. It was a gradual downward spiral leading into adulthood. By age 14 I was eating 2000 calories of cow feces & 5000 calories of mostly snacks & regular food(animal feces is often sterile). By adulthood I was eating 5000 calories of cow feces & 18,000 calories of mostly snacks. The hormones in the feces made me grow taller from 5' 8" to 6 foot. At 31 I was 596 lbs, currently I weigh 489 lbs