Hello everyone!

Hi everyone,
I've been a member of the site for around two weeks now. I'm twenty two years old, an art student, and live in southern Ohio.
It seems I've been overweight my entire life, at least as far back as I can remember. I was always a chubby kid and it just seemed the older I got the more weight I kept putting on. I've "dieted" on and off since I was probably thirteen, and have tried many times to change my lifestyle over the past years. It seems like every time though I would "screw up" and fall back into over eating or eating unhealthy, or I couldn't get motivated to exercise.
I'm hoping this is the last time I tell myself that I'm going to start exercising and eating right and lose all this extra weight. I've never been truly happy with my body and the idea of having health problems in the future terrifies me. Even though it's only been a few weeks since I joined I feel like this website community is really helping me. I'm doing a lot of things (like voluntarily getting up early and walking in the park) that I hadn't quite taken the extra step to do in my past endeavors of trying to lose weight. I really hope this time is it! Wish me luck.