I am 25 years old and am looking to get myself fit and healthy. I am using the atkins diet along with exercise to drop 40 lbs. At 181 I'm the largest I've been and am tired of being there. I am fortunate that my weight carries in places (ie. hips and butt!) that I never truly look my weight but I still know it's there and the scale doesn't lie! Before using this site I have made some goals to start with the fitness side of things and get myself into shape. I managed to run a 5K and run pretty regularly.

Update:
I don't want to remove my original bio because it reminds me of the changes I've made in my life in a pretty short period of time. I have gotten down to a pretty steady 155 now. It seems to be where my new balance weight is. So at this point I am focusing my goals in a fitness direction. If any more weight comes off that's great but I am happy with where I am. So now my story changes to making time to workout and add the muscle tone to replace where all that fat used to be!

So my continued goals using this site to help me out include:

Decrease my size:
Size 10 - Done 11/22/2011
Size 8 - Yippee! 2/15/2012

Run up to a half marathon:
5K - Done 10/29/2011
8K - Done 3/11/2012
10K
Half Marathon

Lose 40 lbs:
176 - Made it!
171 - Woohoo!
166 - Got it!
161 - Smash!
156 - Yippee!
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