A married grad student at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, living in Decatur with my husband & two cats. I work, I drive, and I study. That's pretty much it.

My husband and I started working out together at the beginning of the year. My goal this year is to make exercise a true habit in my life, not just something I do for six months, then slack on. So far so good, but I made a classic mistake and upped my food intake along with my exercise, and gained ten pounds! Yikes!

So, starting in April, I started dieting, 1200 calories a day, no other limitations. I used this formula when I attempted my initial big weight loss. When I was 23 I weighed 210, and by 24 I was down to 140. At my wedding a year later, I was at my lowest weight ever, 130. I have hovered between 130-160 ever since, usually somewhere around the 140-145 mark. I was at 160 when I joined fatsecret.