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Good Morning! My name is Mary and am located in Saginaw, MI.
A few years back me and a friend had done quite well at loosing lots of weight just by eating better and walking. However, over the last 3 years... Allllll that weight has crept its way back! I have no kids, not yet anyway! But do have 4 animal babes 2 dogs and 2 cats that all drive me crazy. Have been sticking on tracking calories and actually not over eating like I used to the last few weeks.0 -
Hi to all of our new members!! The membership exploded today, I love it! Thank you for sharing your stories with us. More than one definitely resonated with me. Thanks so much for joining!0
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Hi all, thanks for starting this group, there are so many groups aimed at mum's it's frustrating. Can't we understand their struggles just because we don't have children? Unless children are force feeding their parents nowadays I'm not sure how it's a relevant factor...
Anyway, I'm Louise, I live in England (Leeds) and don't have children by choice. So many people assume if you don't want children you must hate them, but I really don't, I just know that having children is a long term commitment and it's not one I'm prepared to make.
My weight loss story is nothing special, I have been a little overweight since I was a teen, but I had a flat stomach and I wasn't particularly concerned. Then I met my now husband, I slowly started to pile on the pounds until about 3 years ago when I got an office job, then the gain sped up until I finally decided to take the situation in hand.
Like others in the group I have had mfp for years but never really used it properly, I would set it at 2lbs a week it spit out a 1200 calorie goal and I would nearly be there by lunch time, I clearly couldn't do it. Then one day a little over a year ago I discovered the message boards, it became clear that slow sustainable loss was the way to go and I was off. I had a steady start which slowed just before Christmas and more recently feels like it's stopped. So I have recommitted to more consistent logging, I have lost 40lbs so far with about 35 still to go to reach a healthy BMI, I don't really care how long it takes, as long as I am making progress!3 -
Hi everyone!
I'm Reesh. I'm 35. I have been a teacher for the last thirteen years, but this year I decided to take a break and focus on becoming an artist (something I've always wanted to do). This means I'm at home all the time and managing my meals from my own kitchen most of the time.
I feel lucky to know that I have some many real-life female friends in the 30's with no kids! Must be where I'm living or some such! That said, my husband and I want kids, but at the moment, still no kids. I had a miscarriage this spring and the hormones lingering after the pregnancy messed with my motivation. If I happen to get pregnant, I'll duck out
Anyway, I have never been a very athletically gifted human being. As a kid I was asthmatic and while I had athletic aspirations, the normal school support structure for athletics didn't really jive with the kinds of things that I could do. I biked and hiked quite a bit as a teen because they made me happy. In my twenties I started road biking and racing, though I never took it very seriously (and cranking up the caloric demands with road racing without carefully monitoring your caloric intake can result in no weight loss or even slight weight gains!)
When I was 29, I did a cross-country bike ride. I only lost a pant size on the trip, but it completely transformed me as a person. Kind of like being reborn a bit. I was in the best shape of my life at 5'7'' 140 lbs. I also gained a crazy fat-burning metabolism that lasted about two years until it petered out around 32 years old. I remember naively going "I'll never get over 150 lbs again!"
Ahhh, youth. I moved to the D.C. area, stopped biking for years because the crummy roads in Maryland were full of angry, homicidal drivers. When my husband and I started getting in shape for our wedding (good excuse), we focused on strength training and I really fell in love with the feeling of being able to lift big, heavy things. It gave me other numbers to focus on besides the scale. Ever since last year, I've been in a motivation slump. I haven't been watching my diet carefully and the numbers on the scale kept creeping up even though on the whole we eat pretty high quality foods. We moved and didn't find a gym we liked until just recently (and it is awwwwesome). I've also got access to Virginia's vast network of bike trails and quality roads, so I'm riding my road bike more.
I learned recently that I'm kind of a volume eater... a bottomless pit so to speak, probably exacerbated by years of 10 minute lunches as a teacher and scarfing down as much as possible very quickly. Nice to know that others have the same problem and have found ways to stay satisfied. It's the overeating that gets me.
Anyway, I'm really glad there's a community of women in their thirties motivating each other without bringing in the child factor. Different support needs, eh?
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Hi I'm Tiff. I am an author and artist with a day job. I've tried to focus on being healthy on and off since college. I am the heaviest I've been, but I'm dropping the pounds at a good rate. I have lost 10 lbs in the last 2 months and just recently decided to get even more serious about being healthy. That is why I start MFP again and I'm joining groups.
Please feel free to send me a friend request. Support and friends are important and great when you have a goal to achieve. :-)0 -
Hello! I'm Michele and I'm 39. I'm married and happily childfree. I'm really glad that this group exists - I just did a friend search for other people who are around my age and discovered that there are a LOT of moms on MFP. I think that there's a different mindset amongst those who choose not to have kids - I suppose I have more free time!
One of my goals is to be a good citizen as well as a good person. I work part-time and volunteer in the community about 20 hours a week. I like to hike and bike and be outdoors. I spent several years living in a small town in an area with tons of outdoor activities, and when I got married 3 years ago I moved back to a major metro area. I almost immediately went from about 160lbs to 200lbs! I hadn't realized how active I had been...and how inactive my life in the City would be! Also - I do a lot of the cooking and when it was just me, I did not cook to impress. Now that I'm married I try to make food a bit more interesting that Bachelorette Michele would have eaten. I guess it was richer too...and the pounds went back on.
My initial goal is 160 lbs. I have two rewards: when I get to 175 I am going to get a tattoo removed (long story); and when I get to 160 I am going to buy myself a new backpacking tent. I used to hike a TON and did many chunks of the Superior Hiking Trail (a 280-mile long distance trail from Duluth to near Canada in Minnesota) and would like to do a thru-hike.
I'm doing straight-up CICO, eating less meat (but not going full veg...yet), and right now I'm on week 8 of the Couch to 5k. I have a 5k on October 7th, and then another on Thanksgiving morning. My goal for the one of Oct 7 is to run the whole thing. My goal for the one on Thanksgiving is to improve upon my Oct 7th time! I am also going to join the Planet Fitness that is opening up down the street from me. There is a good no-contract deal going on so I'll give it a try.
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Hey Gray duck!
I'm a big hiker/camper as well. My husband and I do really well when we have something to aim for and backpacking the Dolly Sods Wilderness of West Virginia is our goal. Considering we'll be hiking ten or so miles a day with 50-60 lbs on our backs, it's a good enough reason to get into shape. I totally hear you about cooking for an audience. My husband and I both love to cook, so that complicates matters.
You've got some awesome goals coming up and some realllly awesome motivation. Keep up the great work!grayduckyogini wrote: »Hello! I'm Michele and I'm 39. I'm married and happily childfree. I'm really glad that this group exists - I just did a friend search for other people who are around my age and discovered that there are a LOT of moms on MFP. I think that there's a different mindset amongst those who choose not to have kids - I suppose I have more free time!
One of my goals is to be a good citizen as well as a good person. I work part-time and volunteer in the community about 20 hours a week. I like to hike and bike and be outdoors. I spent several years living in a small town in an area with tons of outdoor activities, and when I got married 3 years ago I moved back to a major metro area. I almost immediately went from about 160lbs to 200lbs! I hadn't realized how active I had been...and how inactive my life in the City would be! Also - I do a lot of the cooking and when it was just me, I did not cook to impress. Now that I'm married I try to make food a bit more interesting that Bachelorette Michele would have eaten. I guess it was richer too...and the pounds went back on.
My initial goal is 160 lbs. I have two rewards: when I get to 175 I am going to get a tattoo removed (long story); and when I get to 160 I am going to buy myself a new backpacking tent. I used to hike a TON and did many chunks of the Superior Hiking Trail (a 280-mile long distance trail from Duluth to near Canada in Minnesota) and would like to do a thru-hike.
I'm doing straight-up CICO, eating less meat (but not going full veg...yet), and right now I'm on week 8 of the Couch to 5k. I have a 5k on October 7th, and then another on Thanksgiving morning. My goal for the one of Oct 7 is to run the whole thing. My goal for the one on Thanksgiving is to improve upon my Oct 7th time! I am also going to join the Planet Fitness that is opening up down the street from me. There is a good no-contract deal going on so I'll give it a try.
I'm looking for friends, so feel free to add me!
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Eekkk! Didn't know this group existed! I'm 33 and no kids (yay!) I find life is increasingly lonely and no one gets you, so yay for you lot!
I don't hate kids though, happy to spend time with the nieces and nephews as long as they go away again at the end. I also coach kids gymnastics ( the kids love me, and when the parents ask why I'm so awesome, I tell them that I don't have my own and treat theirs like real people not just later life care, well I don't say that exactly but...)
I have always been larger, always. I lost 35lb for my wedding 6 years ago then got complacent and did the gaining more back thing. Started 18 months ago at 206lb and now down to 168 but want to lose more. Getting tired of "oh well it's easy for you, you don't have commitments" apparently life is easy for me, tell that to the panic attacks. Oh well.
Oh and my names Catherine, and I would love more friends, real friends (am I sounding desperate yet?) I live in Lancashire uk.2
