Hi, everybody!  I've come back to calorie counting as the only successful way I've ever lost weight.  I was thin in high school and gained 80 lbs in about 8 years! In 04 I hit a peak of at least 200 (I stopped looking) and gradually got down to 164...then got a crappy job, stopped exercising and ate like mad and went back up to 188.  New job, now down to 168 and counting.

I stayed on a plateau for THREE MONTHS but am finally moving the scale again!

I think weight training is FANTASTIC and have become addicted to cardio in addition to my calorie watching ways... I feel so much better in every way.

I love reading all your posts and getting encouragement from your sucesses!

I am impulsive and just got a dreadful perm.  I think I'm going to start wearing legwarmers, rubber bracelets, and jelly shoes and pretending I'm 12.  That should look great on a 31 year old woman, right??

*Update: It's November 16 and I'm at 156 lbs! Yay!