If it helps (ok, even if it doesn't help it's still true) The heaviest I've ever been was pushing 315#. That was years ago. I think it was also when I first learned I have diabetes. Dropped from there down to 280, crept back up into the 290s. Been up and down in the 270 - 295 range a couple times. A couple years ago I got hard core for a while, was doing fitness classes and everything. Got down to 240 before I fell off the wagon (ran out of time and money for classes). That was tough tho. The first 30 pounds came off in 3 months. After that it took a year to do the next 20.

I do have to say that my blood sugar control is much better this go around than it was even when I was at 240. I'm thinking the tweak of doing macro ratios is probably the difference. Before I was limiting carbs to 20% of the total mass of my food (this made things like Campbell's chicken noodle soup "ok" because most of the mass was water). This time I'm doing 20% of calories.