I have been big off and on my entire life. As a child I was active until Nintendo came around and I started to back on the pounds, then around the 6th great (many years ago) I fell in love with the outdoors and started hiking and such, I shed a lot of the weight until I graduated from High School and went to college (for my first try). I became very depressed and packed the pounds back on. Next I started working in Casino's and there is an "image" requirement (unspoken rule) so I worked out every day and took way too many diet pills and of course I lost weight but I was very unhealthy (with the cigarette smoke in the casino, the really bad hours, and all the diet pills, but i looked good LOL) and now I have just (2008) graduated from college (BSN) and started a new job as an Infection Control Nurse (lots of desk work) and through my 4 years in school and the last year and a half behind a desk I am bigger than ever, I only estimated the weight I put in for my first "weigh in" because my home scale will not weigh me any more. So I am hoping for some help and the app for my android phone will help a lot too (I seem to do well calorie counting). I will try to stay active and I will look forward to any support I can get. Phil