I agree. Weight is not everything. Sure, we'd all love to be slim and sexy, but that takes a back seat when your health starts to decline. Consider all the ailments of a bad diet, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer, osteoporosis, cancer, arthritis, to name but a few, you realize that if you manage to dodge those particular bullets, your weight doesn't matter all that much in the long run.

I too have noticed that, among my friends, those who have been overweight longer tend to take longer to lose the weight on low carb. It's making me think that perhaps some of the excess weight may actually be a type of tissue swelling caused by systemic inflammation, and that it may just take time for the body to repair the damage caused by the inflammation before the swelling goes away.