I'm 44 years old and I have lived almost my entire life in New Jersey. I grew up across the river from Philadelphia and currently live in the Atlantic City area.

My domestic partner and I have been together for 20 years. We have no children, but we do have 3 dogs and 5 cats.

I'm back after a long absence. Although I continued tracking my weight, I stopped tracking my food when the tedium of that work overshadowed my success with dieting. Now I'm ready to start again.

Roughly a decade ago I had a lot of success with the Atkins diet. I eventually fell off the wagon with that diet after vacationing in San Francisco -- a wonderful eating town if ever there was one -- and have never found my way back. One thing that made Atkins good for me was the structured way of cutting simple carbs in Induction. I was pretty hardcore about counting carbs the last time I was on Atkins. I hope to be an little less obsessive now, strangely enough, because I hope tracking here will make the counting easier.

In my spare time I like to write in my blog, watch movies with my domestic partner or play video games.