36 (quickly approaching 37) year old male who has spent most of his adult life struggling with weight and body image.

I grew up in Great Falls, Montana and spent part of my early 20's at school in Bozeman (Montana State University). In 1994 I moved to the Spokane, Washington area to attend Eastern Washington University. I've been a resident of the Spokane/Coeur d'Alene area since then, with the exception of one year spent living outside of Boston, Mass.

I've spent the last 11 years working for a software reseller, Software Spectrum, which was recently bought by (and is now called) Insight. I have done customer service (4 years), customer service management (5 years) and CRM support (the last 2 years).

My goal weight is 180. I've spent the last 3 years over 200 lbs. and lately nearer 210. The start of 2007 my wife and I bought two books that greatly helped: The Best Life Diet by Bob Green and You: On A Diet by Dr. Oz (yes, the wife watches Oprah). By combining the ideas of both books we found a way of eating that worked for us and we both lost nearly 20 pouns in 3 months.

Now the struggle is to regain those habits we had begun to develop in the first part of the year and get back on our healthy track.