*Update*- Well, I'm now 27, and this is how it's been for the last 2 years.  I did well with loosing weight, started eating clean and lifting weights.  After about 6 months of this, my weight absolutely stalled at 127 and stayed that way for another half a year.  Then change came in a flurry of bad timing, which is how these things often go.  One month after a big move, my husband lost his job.  Then I lost full time status at mine.  At this point I decided that I had bigger things to worry about than what I put in my mouth everyday.  Yeah, it went about how you'd expect.  So in retrospect, taking a year to lose 23 pounds, and then using the next year to gain every pound of it back, was probably a big waste of time.  However, I'm back, and I still have all the knowledge I learned on this site last time around.  So I guess I'll just do it til I get it right. *shrug*

Ok, I've never been too concerned with eating healthy, but I suppose I should start now and save myself a ton of grief later in life.  I'm 25, female, and I have a wonderful husband of  two years.  I'm currently 132 lbs and just barely break five feet.  I don't think of myself as overweight at all, but this is the most I've ever weighed, and since I'm starting to squish in places I decided its time to learn about healthy eating and get it right now, instead of waiting till I have 30 or 40 pounds to lose.

I just recently graduated from FSC with a degree in Chemistry.  Yay science!  I now work at a citrus oil company as a lab tech, and absolutely love it!  The hours are freaking nuts but the whole place smells so good, like orange blossoms all the time.  Maybe after I get a few years of 'real world experience' (as if four years working 45 hrs a week plus a full course load wasn't real enough) I'll put myself through grad school.  We'll see!

What to shoot for:

40% carbohydrates

30% fats

30% protein

25g fiber

<2300mg sodium

"If you started when you first thought of it, you'd be done by now."  - Unknown CCer