Nikki - This is a NEW year and time for you to start on the NEW you for 2007! I don't exactly know what "semi-program" means but I know you've got to eat to lose on this and you've got to have a made up mind to do it! So, it sounds like you've got the made up mind. (an NSV if ever I heard one!)
Start planning those meals, get rid of the "junk/stuff" that trips you up, get all your water in, and WE CAN DO THIS!!!! Come on girlfriend! You and I aren't that far apart in pounds, although we're centuries apart in age!
I will give you little bit of personal advice if you don't mind... do it NOW!!! It just gets harder the older you get! Take if from someone who's older than dirt! Unfortunately, I didn't have enough sense to do something before it got so far out of hand, and I wasn't heavy at your age... so see? You're already ahead of me my miles!!!
Nikki, you can do this! You deserve to be healthy! Your family deserves you as healthy as you can be, and that supportive boyfriend wants you to be around a long, long time I'm sure!
We can do this together girlfriend!
Hugs,