Hi everyone,
I've finally decided to start posting here after a week or so of checking out the forum. I've found some of the posts to be very motivating.
I've been overweight since about the age of 9, and I'll say at my highest weight I was about 250 when I graduated high school, and over the past 4 years I slowly made my way down to 220 during college; probably due to more walking, and simply having more choices in regard to food, and also finding some nice hiking trails. I love the outdoors.
However, this August I decided that I've had enough of this being overweight thing, so I started making a point to get more exercise, and started watching my eating habits. My weight loss has certainly spiked a bit since then, and then for the past few weeks I REALLY kicked it up by beginning to count my calories. Since the end of August I've lost about 20 more lbs, and I'm down to 198. This is the first time I've been under 200 that I can even remember... probably since middle school. I'm feeling very motivated by this, and I'm excited to jump in here with everyone else.