Our prayer for your recovery. All doctors always suggest to loose the extra weight , they must know better that it's good loose wt. if you have knee problem, high bp, diabetis, arhtritis, and many many ailments. Proper diet not excess diet should all of us to consider. Like john said the lighter we weigh the faster our:spyder2: will go, and the mpg will increase.:roflblack::roflblack::roflblack:.