Yup. Health shit made me pack on a bunch of weight, which is super not great for my terrible joints. It's taken about two years to lose a good portion of it because the process has been incredibly painful. I was also worried about excess skin, so that's another reason I did it slowly. Now that the pain has almost gone back to my normal levels, I guess it's worth it. Losing weight probably would have been easier if it had occurred to me to spend more time googling messageboard posts of people with the same ailments as me doing it too.