Hello everyone. I just thought I'd introduce myself. I am a 24 year old female. Every since high school I've noticed I've had a bad habit of gaining 10 pounds per year it seems and now I managed to cross that threshold into the 200s. I'm currently 211lbs and have decided to attempt to get down to 143lbs. My plan is pretty simple. I'm going to do it the old fashioned way and cut back on food intake and start exercising. I wont eat over 1600 calories per day and I'll exercise 5 days a week for 30min to an hour to start. I'm the kind of person who tends to lose motivation easily but I feel I'll do much better with the support of this forum which I think is absolutely great and also because I'm at the biggest I've been and the 200s became a huge eye opener for me. If anyone wants to go through this journey with me feel free to let me know. I need all the help I can get. AND...good luck to everyone. Losing weight is hard. I've tried it many many times before.