Hey!! I'm Nikki..i'm 28 yrs old and ready to lose some serious weight!!!! In 2001 I was at my highest weight which was 307 lbs...(wow what was I thinking?) and now as of May 16,2007 I am at 229...woohoo..!! i hadn't weighed in a couple years so back in the summer of 2005 i was pleasantly suprised to see that i was down to 283..and that seemed to happen with no effort, somehow i didn't even realize i had lost anything...so in Sept of 2006 i decided this is it i'm gonna diet...well fell off that wagon..but climbed back on at the end of March 2007..my starting weight then was 248 and i'm down to 229..so i guess for all of my tickers i'll start with what my weight was at that time...i am excited to be on this site and have had a great time looking over everyone's progress pics and that is what has made me sign up...good luck to all!!!