My name is Adam. I'm 25 and I will update this more as I go on, but basically I have been overweight all of my life. At age 16 I was over 400 pounds and I would probably be about 1000 pounds today if I had not met someone who changed my life. I had a "big brother" who had also been overweight and he had lost a lot of weight. He was an inspiration to me and introduced me to low carb / atkins. I started low carb off and on at age 17 and slowly dropped weight. On my 20th birthday I was about 300lbs and then that year I went to college and lost a lot of weight and got down to my lowest weight of about 250lbs by age 21. Unfortunately, I never changed my eating habits. I never tried. I thought I could eat whatever I wanted and for a while, because I was active, I got away with it. But then for various reasons the weight started coming back on and by my 25th birthday I was over 400lbs again. So here I am, dedicated to changing my life and loosing the weight. My girlfriend Amanda (adam25sgf), who is just an amazing person, is doing the journey with me as we both have weight to lose. I am excited about it and the community here is full of great people!