I am an engineering student that is about to enter the workforce (after one more semester :-) ). I have had some great times, but am very ready to be done as engineering schooling is not what you would call a joy ride.

As far as my weight I should back up ... I used to be quite athletic.  And then I went to college which has given me many of battles.  My weight was the aftermath of that and has been one of the mini battles as I had lost, gained, gained more, lost, gained, lost, etc... This has been for a variety of reasons and combination in the past of having to do many engineering all nighters and munching to stay up, not dealing with massive amounts of stress in a healthy way, emotionally eating, not having time to exercise, and various other things.  It was one of those would have, should have, could have things... looking back I was coping.  Freshman year I actually lost weight, but with all the pressure my school puts on body image had got to a point that it wasn't healthy how much I was worried about calories and this and that.  As my engineering school's demands expanded, I was getting virtually no sleep and working out no longer "fit in" my schedule.  By second year the stress and college pressure had played its toll on me.  I had got off the path I wanted to be on and in this confussion of trying to "survive" (and with the weight I had since put on, feeling inatequte with classes, etc)- my self esteem was compeletly destroyed and non-exsitent by winter of my sophmore year.  I simply wasn't liking how I was living anymore (aka binge eating).  Eating had become a means of comfort (in that I could do it, I could control it, I could enjoy it with no work, I could try to hide the stress... naturally this isn't healthy, but at the time again was coping).  I actually remmember eating till I felt so sick and yet eating more.  Sometimes the next day I would try to work it off and sometimes I couldn't fit it in.  I would go through short term diets.  Yea not healthy.  And as a result I actually felt so much worse.  Health issues came as possibilities due to what I was doing and not doing for my body.  I no longer had the energy to be myself and be the active person I once was and am as I was lugging so much extra weight and my body wasn't holding it well (my joints ached and was in pain more often).  But really the weight was just the visibile sign of things deeper.  Well I can't begin to express my thanks to God in my story at this point.  As I don't know how I can express the next step, but will try.  I finally turned back to God to give Him this fight, casting my worries and stress on Him, asking Him to change my ways to be more the person He wants me to be and I want to be, to show me the steps to do this, to give me the strength and the will in that journey, to simply make Jesus the center of my life again...

Well I can't express the night and day difference.  I am so happy and just loving life again!  Of course I still have my struggles and will struggle with losing the rest of the weight, but am happy, have confidence in the person God made me, know God has a plan and with that find comfort and my faith is even stronger and truly think that all things are possible with God.  Its been a year since my last serious binge, and really when God became the center again the other elements have truly started falling into place.  I have lost about ten to fifteen, which may seem like nothing, but thanks to be God have been able to brake bad habits that I had previously failed so many times before, had to learn who I wanted to be again, had to have my eyes open to again find confidence and so many other things.  I am making lifestyle changes and so know and am confident that this weight will simply fall off and stay off (perhaps not as fast as I would like :-) ), but will : D.

Yep thats the summary. 

If you have any questions feel free to ask anything...