I'm 20 years old and am sophomore in college.  I'm going to school to be a High School English Teacher, and one day hope to live in a warm state!  I've lived in Wisconsin all my life and am sick of the cold! lol

I've been struggling with my weight since about 6th grade, puberty hit, and so did the pounds, it didn't help that i wasn't into sports and had a killer sweet tooth.  It was horrible in middle school because I didn't have any curves (obviously...I was 12) so I was basiclly  just a balloon, in high school it wasn't so bad, I became more curvy than just fat, but still, I have always been 'moderately overweight' according to the BMI thingy.

But I hit my breaking point this year in about February, I went to the doctors for my yearly check-up and when they had to weigh me in I was expecting to be about 175, but in actuality, I weighed in at 200lbs.  I was speechless...and disgusted, I couldn't believe I had let myself slip like that. 

It took me a few months to actually get going on diet and exercise I had every excuse not to exercise (my boyfriend doesn't care that I'm big, all my friends are a little overweight, my family loves food) but I know that I need to lose weight for myself, because even if no one else cares how big I get, I know that I won't be happy with myself.  That and for health reasons, I know as I get older stuff like heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and various other conditions can take a toll on my health if I don't take the initiative to do something about my weight.