My name is Jason - I'm 33 years old and live in Minnesota. I work with children with mental health disorders in public schools and have a Masters in psychology.
I was overweight most of my childhood but started slimming down when I was around 14 as I started growing taller. By 18 I was 6 feet tall and weighed 180. I weighed 180 when I got married and soon started slowly gaining. I got up to around 220 pounds and then became a vegan. I was a vegan for about a year and a half and then a vegetarian for another couple of years after that. While I was a vegan I dropped back down to 200 but as a vegetarian I began gaining weight again. Over the next 8 or 9 years I tried a variety of tactics to lose weight but never very successfully and finally got up to 280 pounds.
Last summer (2010) I decided to try going completely paleo and over the course of a month I lost 20 pounds. However, at the end of the month I drifted away from it and stopped working out and stopped eating paleo. Over the next 10 months I drifted back up to 272 and decided that it was time to get serious about being healthy - which is where this blog started.
