You hit the gym, you diet, but are the pounds just not coming off? Meet four viewers who lost hundreds of pounds and transformed their lives without surgery!

Courtney: “At my heaviest I weighed 429 pounds,” the 24-year-old says. She was hooked on fast food and soda and felt stuck. "I was so overweight, I just never ever thought that I could lose the weight without having surgery." Two years ago her doctor warned her about her health and she decided to join Weight Watchers and has since lost 257 pounds! “I made a choice not to live like that forever and this is the new me!”

Top tip: "Just start! And don’t let yourself get too hungry, I eat five to six times a day, sometimes more! I'm always eating," she says. "I eat lean proteins, whole grains, a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables. My motto is I eat to live, I don't live to eat!"

Janet and Ben: "I think we did both enable each other to be heavy," says Janet, 34, who realizes she and her husband were sabotaging each others diets until they weighed a total of 300 pounds. When the weight was preventing her from walking and Ben faced a health scare they decided to find a way to take the weight off. They decided to enroll with a diet program that initially supplied all of their meals as they began to learn new eating habits. Ben is down 100 pounds and she has shed 135 (and counting)!

Top tip: "Food is not the enemy, it's eating the right foods," Ben says, while explaining what he has learned about nutrition and losing weight. "Eat more often, instead of just having your three meals." Janet found the motivation to stick with their new regimen by finding encouragement from the scale. "Celebrate those small successes, because it's one pound less that I have on my body that I'm carrying around!"

Jeannie: "I've had a weight problem all of my life, I figured it was just my destiny," the 53-year-old says. "I ate fried everything!" When Jeannie reached 318 pounds and was having trouble walking because of her weight she feared ending up in a wheelchair. "I had to do something." She joined a gym and started going for physical therapy. When she was able to walk short distances she found a way to turn grocery shopping and the task of pushing that cart around into an extra form of exercise. "It just got to where it was too easy to push the empty cart around the store, so to add some muscle to it I started adding kitty litter!" She added more bags and has since lost 173 pounds.

Top tip: "Start small, you don't make big changes," Jeannie says, while encouraging others to be patient as you build up strength. And, when it comes to meal time, she is enjoying eating more vegetables along with her old favorites. "I just eat less of them!"

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