270 wanting to be 160

brimom19

Hey. I'm brimom19. I am a 42 year old single mother of three daughters and I desperately need to lose over 100 pounds. Starting today, no excuses

sugaraddict4321

Welcome to the MFP community.

Frankie_Fan

Hello and welcome!

dlmciver

You can do it ! Logging faithfully (1100+ days) has helped me maintain a 205 pound loss for two + years. Calories in, calories out... One good choice at a time !

Sharon4054

Good morning and welcome....

brimom19

Small, manageable changes are my goal. Hoping that this time starting will be my last time starting and my first time finishing

dembkogirl

Welcome! I'm right around the same starting weight as you (mine was 278), goal of 160. Logging daily has kept me held accountable, and I don't let a bad meal or bad day derail me like before!

seltzermint555

I started at 307 and now hover around 170. It took me six years to lose the weight and I've kept it off for over four now...occasionally I do hit the 160s and then always bounce back up to 170 but I've made peace with that and focus on maintaining where I am. At 41 and 5'8" I feel happy with this.

A lot of people hear that it took me 5+ years and think I must have done something wrong...I feel totally opposite about it. I didn't join MFP until four years into the process and calorie counting very much accelerated my progress. The way I viewed the journey was slow and steady wins the race. I know a lot of people who have lost over 100 lb in a year and didn't keep it off because their methods weren't sustainable. I believe you are on the right track with smaller changes and calorie counting, FWIW.

I know people are different. I'd never lost a lot of weight in the past, never really dieted. I'd been over 250 lb since I was seventeen years old and then something changed for me in my early thirties and I was sick of being so big. I always liked thinking "I'm doing good for myself and in a year I'll be closer to where I want to be". For me that was enough.

Bavieca

Really, really happy you've joined! Welcome to the community! The 100th step doesn't happen without the first.