Thanks ya'll! I really HAVE to lose the weight. I am only 23 and my knees creak and crack and hurt, my ankles are swollen and I'm not pregant, my hips and ankles hurt and I have a cramp from h*ll where my leg meets my hip, and I can't fit into cute clothes so in turn I have to buy old, frumpy lady clothes.

I went today to a nurse practitioner that used to be severely overweight and said I am swollen and it has to do a lot with my sodium intake which makes sense (duh! why couldn't I have thought about that? ). She said she had the same problem I have. She's skinny now. Well, she's a normal weight.